7. Intelligence Community · Minor
Consider using DOD's full capabilities to support covert action
Printed page 210 7. Intelligence Community
“Given the range of global threats the United States faces today, the President should consider whether DOD’s complete set of capabilities should be used to support potential covert actions.”
What has happened
- Not started
No allowlisted record that the President has considered, or directed consideration of, using DOD's complete set of capabilities in support of covert action. Federal Register full-text search for "covert action" since 2025-01-20 returns 0 documents of any type; no presidential document or DOD directive on the point is published; and P.L. 119-60 Division F's only DOD-facing intelligence provision, section 6511, concerns counterintelligence briefings for members of the Armed Forces.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
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Research notes
- Covert action is by construction unpublished: findings go to the congressional intelligence committees, not to the Federal Register, so this ask has no public instrument at any point and not started with a recorded search is the honest answer.
- This ask is also covered by a single negative search of the covert-action asks on pp. 210-211.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- DOD capabilities in support of covert action
- ID
- 550