Jake Sloan Adventures

Here is an agency that will increasingly play a role in Jake Sloan's career... what the public knows is that the NSA has "two major missions: the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), which produces foreign signals intelligence information, and the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), which protects U.S. information systems" (Wikipedia NSA information page).

What they know little of is the development of a HUMINT (human intelligence) branch of the agency.  The NSA has the largest budget of any clandestine service in the US, and the new directive received by General Jack Regent, known as the the National Security Council Intelligence Directive 10 (NSCID-10), governed by the G. G. Meade Committee, grants him authority to create an arm of the NSA devoted to clandestine operations of a human nature. 

As the Director of the National Security Agency serves as the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and is Chief of the Central Security Service, NSCID-10 will serve the coordinated needs of the larger intelligence community defending the United States.  At its base the NSA HUMINT branch pursues goals and objectives associated with the IAD (Information Assurance Directorate), either cultivating intelligence sources, protecting current assets, or verifying the credibility of assets in the field.