Matthew Cole, The Pentagon’s Missionary Spies. The Intercept, 26 October 2015. “U. S. Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage…. The revelation that the Pentagon used an NGO and unwitting humanitarian volunteers for intelligence gathering is the result of a months long investigation by The Intercept. In the course of the investigation, more than a dozen current and former military and intelligence officials, humanitarian aid workers, missionaries, U.S. officials, and former HISG [Humanitarian International Services Group] staffers were interviewed. The U.S. government officials who were familiar with the Pentagon operation and HISG’s role asked for anonymity because discussing classified military and intelligence matters would put them at risk of prosecution. The Pentagon had no comment on HISG or the espionage operations in North Korea.”
October 26, 2015
The Pentagon’s Missionary Spies
October 26, 2015 Filed Under: Charities, Ethics, National Security Tagged With: defense department, defense secretary donald rumsfeld, humanitarian international services group (hisg), humanitarian volunteers, interaction, kay hiramine, lt. gen. william 'jerry' boykin, new millennium trust, non-governmental organization (ngo), north korea, pentagon, private sector consulting, sam worthington, special access program (sap), stephen cambone, working partners foundation