The chairman of the House Intelligence Oversight Panel said that multiple U.S. counterintelligence agencies have been accused of neutralizing foreign espionage operations lack focus and that the system needs major reforms.
House Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford’s House Permanent Choice Committee said recent hearings and oversight have highlighted the need for legislation since 2017.
“We’ve seen that we have a disconnected counterintelligence agency that simply can’t be well together,” Arkansas Republican said in an interview with The Washington Times. “We’ve been looking for evidence of guns for this kind of smoking, rather than taking positive steps toward these threats.”
China’s He said that in the United States, aggressive intelligence collection is the main focus of reform. spy RussiaIran, North Korea and Cuba Will be targeted as well.
The committee passed last week after the Chairman made a major reform plan in the 2026 Fiscal Authorization Act. The legislation is awaiting a vote for the whole House of Representatives.
The measure is known as the Strategic Enhancement Act or Security Act of the Counter Intelligence and Unified Reform Effort Act.
One major factor is the establishment of a new National Counter-Intelligence Center (NCIC) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The new center will replace the current National Counterintelligence and Security Center, which lacks the power to coordinate to integrate activities. CIA,,,,, FBIThe National Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, military services and other security agencies.
In addition to coordination, the Center’s new mission will guide and conduct counterintelligence operations. The bill believes that the key focus will set the doctrine and requirements of “executing offensive counterintelligence activities.”
Critics say the U.S. counterintelligence lacks offensiveness and a proactive focus, but relies on defensive methods.
The center will also be responsible for assessing the damage caused by foreign spy cases. In the past, intelligence agencies often undermine past assessments that attempted to cover up their failures in comments.
Highly secretive anti-ticketing operations include the use of dual agents or “hanging” to recruit foreign spies as appropriate defectors to absorb foreign spies and actively hunt “moles” or foreign penetrants.
The bill upgrades the definition of counterintelligence in current legislation to protect against foreign espionage threats to “stop, destroy, investigate, exploit” the mission of foreign intelligence operations.
The use of deception to neutralize foreign spies and anti-foreign intelligence impact operations will also be part of the new plan. The new NCIC will also provide directors with greater power to conduct counterintelligence activities as President Trump’s main adviser to foreign spy threats, in addition to working for the National Intelligence Agency Tulsi Gabbard.
Mr. Crawford said he worked closely with Ms. Gabbard to develop a plan for counterintelligence reform. Anti-sentence in the United States has not evolved, while the threat of foreign spy is increasing.
“I mean, it seems like every week I have other introductions about CI related to CI,” Mr. Crawford said. “We didn’t run the best games.”
One problem is the Chairman calls the landscape of America’s tolerance, which makes it easier for foreign spies to conduct impunity.
“So we just felt the need to reset and start taking a more aggressive approach because it works for CI, especially our strong opponents,” he said.
The reform will also legally codify an inter-agency national counterintelligence working group, currently consisting of security officials from various government agencies. exist ChinaMr. Crawford said Beijing’s espionage was the main problem.
“The red light flashes critical levels,” he said of Chinese spies.
He said Russian intelligence services are no longer the KGB, but are still a major concern.
Mr. Crawford said the Senate version of the Authorization Act does not include reforms. But discussions were held with the Senator, who said he hoped the reform legislation would be passed in the last bill at the House meeting.
“We hope they can be there with us,” he said.
this FBI Responsible for counterintelligence at home. The bureau suffered a series of failures FBI Deputy Chief of New York, corruption charges and firing in 2018 FBI Peter Strzok, the head of counterintelligence, investigated the investigation into Mr. Trump’s collusion with Russia.
CIA Counterintelligence in the 1960s and 1970s was an independent function that played a powerful role in the institution, and he died in 1987 in the U.S. government under its chief James Jesus Angleton.
After Angleton, many in the intelligence community called his brand of spy hunting “pathological thinking” and led to a downgrade of the feature.
What followed was a seemingly uninterrupted series of extremely destructive spy infiltration. They include CIA Give it all CIA Agents in Moscow, and FBI Traitor Robert Hanssen also monitored Moscow.
Since the post-Angleton period, almost every agency in the federal government has been damaged by foreign spy violations, mainly involving the loss of secrets. Russia,,,,, China and Cuba.
A major intelligence disaster in recent times is CIA Lost almost all recruiting agents China Starting in 2010. Agent losses are the result of changing clothes CIA Officials and technical breakdown allow China’s The Ministry of State Security reveals the agency’s spy network.
In 2023, then –CIA Director William Burns said the agency is making progress in rebuilding its agency network China Devastating loss.
The previous one CIA Sam Faddis officials said reform legislation would be good if U.S. intelligence agencies start to become more dynamic.
“But fundamentally, it begs the question: Who will do it? Who will run these actions?” he said FBI Don’t know what it is doing in this field. CIA Lost the advantage. If we don’t change that, we just hope we can do better. ” he said.
Michele Van Cleave, former national anti-emotion director, warned that the government’s efficiency ministry’s efforts to cut waste and abuse pose a counterintelligence risk and increase the risk of information theft Russia,,,,, China and other spy services.
“Once in charge of our counterintelligence, there is no doubt that hostile intelligence services have been working overtime to take advantage of this golden opportunity,” Ms. Van Cleave wrote on the hill.
“In the best case scenario, the red carpet that Doge puts to our opponents will be a tough challenge for CI, but now our counterintelligence businesses are shattering at the seams,” she said.
Ms Van Cleave said the U.S. counterintelligence services only provide coverage, not 10% of foreign intelligence personnel with the highest priority in the U.S. or transiting U.S.
