Extent and objective of CIA operatoins under-reported http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/extent-and-objective-cia-operatoins-under-reported  But there is more to what happened than the "semi-official recognition" currently being reported in the American press Monday.American intelligence has been facing a major crisis since last spring. Back then, intelligence authorities found out that some spy recruits were framed not only in Lebanon, but also in Syria and Iran.For even though the modus operandi of the intelligence network does not allow for communication among its different operating groups, all these groups have a single intelligence gathering mission in cooperation with Israeli intelligence. The objective is to face the mounting arms operations of resistance force in Lebanon and Palestine and Iran and Syria’s role in this mission. This clarifies that there is more to the reactions published Monday by the American press.According to a follow-up with sources, the key work of American intelligence in this period was aimed at:Direct measures to provide intense protection for all of its recruits in security work, whether smuggling them out of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran or by taking additional precautions to prevent their exposure.Last July, al-Akhbar published a report on the ongoing security war between American and “Israeli” intelligence and the security forces of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. It was revealed between April and May that a cell of 25 NATO agents in Syria were exposed, with 17 arrested. One fled to Dubai and three to Lebanon, but they were caught in Lebanon. In May of last year, the Iranian security ministry announced the arrest of a network of spies working for the CIA, including 30 Iranians.With the escape of the three Syrians into Lebanon, the Syrian intelligence has asked its Lebanese counterpart and Hizbullah to help in arresting them. The agencies were then mobilized to combat spying in Lebanon, and it is perhaps this mobilization that led to the capturing of intelligence agents, as announced by Hizbullah.Our sources confirm that, “These operations revealed the moving of the Americans’ primary working base in the area from Saudi and Lebanon to the UAE, but Dubai especially, which, because of the entering and leaving required for this type of work, it can be used as a cover for security work.”