November (2019), US intel officials warned a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, posing a threat to the population.
It was detailed in an intelligence report by the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI).
abcnews.go.com/Politics/intel…
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event. It was then briefed multiple times to Defense Intelligence Agency, Pentagon’s Joint Staff & White House. April, 2020, Pentagon issued a statement denying the "product/assessment" existed.
Sources describe repeated briefings through December for policy-makers & decision-makers across federal government as well as National Security Council. A detailed explanation appeared in President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January.
9/16/20
DIA chief, Gen Robert Ashley, hints that public doesn’t yet know what the military knew about the coronavirus.
DIA is NMCI’s parent agency. Ashley said his agency “did what we were supposed to” & that a bigger story would come out eventually.
defenseone.com/technology/202…
“Over coming months & years, that will get unpacked in probably a much more public way...One of the things we have done, & we have done it early on, is we looked at everything we knew, who we told, when we told them, & when we knew it, & what leader did that get to.”
US intel agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China in November (2019).
According to Channel 12 news, US intelligence community became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan 2nd week of that month and drew up a classified document.
timesofisrael.com/us-alerted-isr…
US intel informed Trump admin, “which did not deem it of interest,” but report said Americans also decided to update 2 allies with classified document: NATO & Israel, specifically IDF.
Intelligence also reached Israel decision makers & Health Ministry where “nothing was done."
Using techniques similar to those employed by intelligence agencies, research team analyzed commercial satellite imagery & "observed a dramatic increase in hospital traffic outside 5 major Wuhan hospitals beginning late summer & early fall of 2019.
abcnews.go.com/International/…
Traffic increase also "coincided with" elevated queries on a Chinese internet search for "certain symptoms that would later be determined as closely associated with the novel coronavirus."
Why?
This seems "odd"...
"Diversity and Inclusion" pushed in Trump's Defense Intelligence Agency during the pandemic...
What???
Why would Trump's Director of DNI sit for an interview with Obama's CIA Director?
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LT GEN ASHLEY: So I'll put it in really kind of simple terms. We provide foundational intelligence & intelligence on operational environment. And kind of the difference really, that you allude to, difference between if you think about CIA over DIA is kind of the customer base.
😱 You're very familiar with what CIA does, in that it's kind of working directly for president in kind of national side of house, for us, we're defense side of equation...very similar missions, things we do...but it's for Chairman, for Secretary & for all combatant commanders.
So the DIA's footprint is about 1/2 of us are in the Beltway, providing that support, providing a reachback for COCOMs. But we also have defense attache corps. So we are literally in all embassies globally & core of the analytic support for all J-2s & all COCOMs are DIA officers.
Good Lord!
"So we have technical collection on the MASINT (Measurement & Signature Intelligence) side of the house.
So there are some very discrete capabilities that we have that are very unique in terms of how we help provide insights into what's happening on the battlefield."
Defense Clandestine Service...kind of defense version of National Clandestine Service. Again: different customer base very complementary to how we integrate...look at missions inside embassies & teaming & how that operates, it's very complementary kind of Venn-diagram capability.
Core piece you alluded to is analytic piece...people think about DIA they think about analysts, but actually, there are 10 career fields & really kind of self-sustaining enterprise: logisticians, science & tech, engineers, facility engineers, analysts, counter-intel, human intel.
Military built their own equivalent of the World Wide Web and applied artifical intelligence! First part came out in May of 2020.
Gallup published book last yr called "It's the Manager". It's almost a tutorial to how to understand Millennials & how leaders should interact with them.
Info we see, our understanding of what's taking place, members of IC feed that directly to Chairman, combatant command, Sec Def...as Sr member of IC, we have unencumbered access to Sr leaders of DOD & ability to ensure we're providing them everything that we know & understand.
Bar is lower...not just thing you think about in context of kinetics. It's bio kinds of things, CRISPR, genealogy, developing weapons along those lines you could do in lab. You just have to have some good scientists or good chemists or good biologists able to do those things.
...Universal Soldier, Dolph Lundgren & Jean-Claude Van Damme...that kind of science fiction is science reality...get into a lot of ethical issues in terms of who would actually apply those kinds of things...how do I make somebody stronger, increase his or her endurance?
At some point in coming decades there will be machine-human cognitive interface to allow u to make decisions, process info...we watch that to bring all together to understand "What is totality of capabilities, not only on individual performance but on tech for nations...
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