Cia Outsourcing Outed In Washington Post
R.J. Hillhouse, author and intelligence blogger, has written an interesting article for the Washington Post about the CIA's increasing use of private firms over in-house government employees. In her story titled, "Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire" she sounds a "Red Alert: Our national security is being outsourced."

According to Hillhouse, there exists a "mammoth private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today."

Curiously, a source to Starstream Research previously identified private intelligence operations as the primary suspects in recent UFO-related Internet activities masquerading as counterintelligence operations. Or should that be the other way round?

In her article, Hillhouse raises the paranoia level noting that the new Director of National Intelligence at the ODNI, Mike McConnell, "doesn't want you to know... that the private spy industry has succeeded where no foreign government has: It has penetrated the CIA and is running the show."

It was a high-ranking official reporting to the ODNI that last year warned a former USAF OSI Special Agent that he was essentially "exempt from legal recourse" in an impending investigation of his Internet related UFO activities. Rumors from the "Reality Uncovered" community suggest they are prepared to move ahead with a major expose' of that situation.

Even more interesting is that Hillhouse names some of the premier private intelligence firms, and these same folks have had their hands in the UFO/alternative science cookie jar in recent years:

"Intelligence professionals tell me that more than 50 percent of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) -- the heart, brains and soul of the CIA -- has been outsourced to private firms such as Abraxas, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon."

Our source suggested we investigate the privatized intelligence community. Hillhouse notes that "These firms recruit spies, create non-official cover identities and control the movements of CIA case officers."

Maybe R.J. is missing the boat when it comes to the UFO angle? We've seen the advent of the antigravity gurus and their low-profile government contracts (Podkletnov, Ning Li et al), the incestuous relationships between wealthy entrepreneurs interested in alternative science (Bob Bigelow, Joe Firmage), private intelligence and think tanks (James Woolsey, John L. Petersen's Arlington Institute), and U.S. Government intelligence officials and consultants right here on the world wide web. R.J. are you listening yet?

The question at hand is why a certain highly-placed Senior Intelligence Official raised red flags over our reporting of his interest in the UFO arena.

Hillhouse appears to sum up the concerns of the U.S. government's UFO watchers:

"Down-on-their-luck spies begin to do what spies do best: spy. Other companies offer them jobs in exchange for industry secrets. Foreign governments approach them. And some day, terrorists will clue in to this potential workforce."

Based upon our limited experience, we couldn't have said it better ourselves.

"R.J. Hillhouse writes the national security blog the Spy Who Billed Me and is the author of the espionage thriller "Outsourced."

To quote Hillhouse, "Down-on-their-luck spies begin to do what spies do best: spy. Other companies offer them jobs in exchange for industry secrets. Foreign governments approach them. And some day, terrorists will clue in to this potential workforce.