A new Pentagon strategy aimed at luring terrorists into committing acts of terrorism has been recommended to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by the Defense Science Board (DSB). The "DSB Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism" claims that since the global war on terrorism "requires new strategies, postures and organization," it was advocating the creation of a super-Intelligence Support Activity, called the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)."
According to Secrecy News, published by the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, stories about the DSB briefing first surfaced on September 26 in a report by Dan Dupont in "Inside the Pentagon" and by Pamela Hess, UPI's Pentagon correspondent. A month later, William M. Arkin mentioned P2OG in a column in the Los Angeles Times. And, in early November, CounterPunch ran a piece on P2OG by Chris Floyd called "Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan: to Provoke Terrorist Attacks."
According to Secrecy News, published by the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, stories about the DSB briefing first surfaced on September 26 in a report by Dan Dupont in "Inside the Pentagon" and by Pamela Hess, UPI's Pentagon correspondent. A month later, William M. Arkin mentioned P2OG in a column in the Los Angeles Times. And, in early November, CounterPunch ran a piece on P2OG by Chris Floyd called "Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan: to Provoke Terrorist Attacks."