NYPD (photo: Getty images)
27 June 13
Four Central Intelligence Agency officers were embedded with the New York Police Department
in the decade after Sept. 11, 2001, including one official who helped
conduct surveillance operations in the United States, according to a newly disclosed C.I.A. inspector general’s report.
That officer believed there were "no limitations"
on his activities, the report said, because he was on an unpaid leave of
absence, and thus exempt from the prohibition against domestic spying
by members of the C.I.A.
Another embedded C.I.A. analyst - who was on its
payroll - said he was given "unfiltered" police reports that included
information unrelated to foreign intelligence, the C.I.A. report said.
The once-classified review, completed by the
C.I.A. inspector general in December 2011, found that the four agency
analysts - more than had previously been known - were assigned at
various times to "provide direct assistance" to the local police. The
report also raised a series of concerns about the relationship between
the two organizations.
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