The program is still in the planning phase and is overseen by former CIA official Tom Rakusan.
\n\nThe Pentagon is working on a new spy program in which American operatives would live and work undercover as business people or other private workers, with no visible tie to the US government. The goal is to wage economic warfare against China and other US rivals, according to six people familiar with the effort.
\n\nThe operatives would be known as “nonofficial cover officers,” or NOCs. The Washington Post reports that the program is meant to serve as the secret arm of a wider Pentagon campaign of economic warfare. The people who described it spoke anonymously because the initiative is sensitive.
\n\nThe effort is still in the planning stage and is not yet running. Where it will sit inside the Pentagon is also undecided. It could become its own deep-cover unit, or it could grow out of the secret human intelligence work the Pentagon already does.
\n\nRakusan retired from the CIA in 2021 and joined Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm Feinberg co-founded. When Feinberg moved to the Pentagon in 2025, Rakusan went with him.
\n\nExperts from the military service branches and from…
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