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Director Haspel laid out her 6 strategic priorities today at the University of Louisville (cc @uofl):
Strategic Priority 1: Diversity & inclusion.
Our global mission demands that we recruit & retain America’s best & brightest, regardless of gender, race, or cultural background.
Strategic Priority 1: Diversity & inclusion.
Our global mission demands that we recruit & retain America’s best & brightest, regardless of gender, race, or cultural background.
Strategic Priority 2: Invest more heavily in collecting against the hardest issues.
CIA’s heavy emphasis on counterterrorism is vital, but we are sharpening our focus on nation-state rivals as well.
CIA’s heavy emphasis on counterterrorism is vital, but we are sharpening our focus on nation-state rivals as well.
Strategic Priority 3: Steadily increase the number of officers stationed overseas.
Our mission—as a foreign intelligence agency—lies abroad, & having a larger foreign footprint allows for a more robust posture.
Our mission—as a foreign intelligence agency—lies abroad, & having a larger foreign footprint allows for a more robust posture.
Strategic Priority 4: Investing in foreign-language excellence as a core attribute for our officers.
We’re strengthening our language training to ensure that our people are more capable & better attuned to the cultures in which they operate.
We’re strengthening our language training to ensure that our people are more capable & better attuned to the cultures in which they operate.
Strategic Priority 5: Build stronger partnerships at CIA across US Government, IC, & with our foreign counterparts as well.
Teamwork is the only effective way of dealing with the range of complex global threats.
Teamwork is the only effective way of dealing with the range of complex global threats.
Strategic Priority 6: Invest more heavily in our counternarcotics effort abroad.
Narcotics have killed more Americans than any terrorist group. No foreign threat has had a more direct & devastating impact on families & communities than the flow of opioids & other drugs into US.
Narcotics have killed more Americans than any terrorist group. No foreign threat has had a more direct & devastating impact on families & communities than the flow of opioids & other drugs into US.
