U.S. Intel coomunity Turn To Scientists To Answer Unexplained Mysteries

Avril Haines, then the nominee to become director of National Intelligence, appears before the Senate Intelligence committee during her confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 19, 2021. (Melina Mara/Pool via The New York Times)  

New York Times: Spy Agencies Turn to Scientists As They Wrestle With Mysteries 

WASHINGTON — The nation’s intelligence agencies are looking for ways to increase their expertise in a range of scientific disciplines as they struggle to answer unexplained questions — about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, unidentified phenomenon observed by Navy pilots and mysterious health ailments affecting spies and diplomats around the world. 

Traditional spycraft has failed to make significant progress on those high-profile inquiries, and many officials have grown convinced that they require a better marriage of intelligence-gathering and scientific examination. 

Intelligence officials in the Biden administration came into office pledging to work on areas traditionally dominated by science, like studying the national security implications of climate change and future pandemics. 

But as the other issues have cropped up, the spy agencies have had to confront questions that are as much scientific mysteries as they are challenges of traditional intelligence collection.  

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WNU Editor: This is a surprise. I thought the US intel community already had a division dedicated to scientific and technology/engineering mysteries and/or how to apply science and engineering/technology in their operations. It looks like they do not.

Here is an easy prediction. Do not be surprised in the next intel budget request there will be a classified request for a lot of money to go into the start and operations of such a division.

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