User:Sliverback Six

Traviler Project

Not to be confused with the Legal Travler Program. Started in 1979 after DCI Stansfield Turner fired over 800 Operations (Case) Officers (CO). (Still refered to as the Halloween Massacare, as the cut came in October.)

DCI Turner, a USNA classmate of then US President Carter, having personal & executive direct access to President Carter personally told the President that HUMINT was out dated, out lived it's day when compaired with the new technical collection assests. That the (DCI) could obtain all the intelligence he (The President) required via technical means. That only the highest placed, most important human sources would be maintained. That buy shutting down all other HUMINT assets, CIA would save millions. The President approved the plan.

Station Chiefs (Chief Of Station (COS))from the old days. (Several were former OSS Officers, the rest were COS who were recruited by the former OSS now CIA COS.) Had a meeting. They came up with a plan to support the HUMNT requirements for their most important recruited assets still working.

Using funds provided by rich pro US citizens who were already providing HUMINT from legal travel, overseas business and money; unwitting idiots and black op covert funds in off shore holdings, a plan was developed.

Each COS would pick one US citizen. The involvment would be limited to existing COS, unless the operational need required it, no other COS or Travler would know any other Traviler.

Travilers will recruit & vet thier own support agents completly unknown to the CO handler.

The plan was to let the project die out by normal retirement of the COS, in the hopes that a stronger President would be elected and return CIA back to it's full operational status, as intended in the origional congressional charter.

The COS would not risk their career, retirement or compromise of the project for the Traviler. The Traviler would be a throw away. The requirements were simple. The COS would be the ONLY handler. COS would establish the clandestine communications plan and a emergency comm plan. The Travler must be single, orphan or no close faimly. The Traivler file must be in a seperate file in the NOC system and encrypted by the COS in a NAS approved Communications Intelligence (COMINT) One Time Pad (OTP). The Traviler will be responsible for their own logistic support with covert funds. A co-opted support asset can provide, recrutied by the Traivler can provide covert support, as long as their is NO DIRECT OR INDIRECT trail to the COS or USI/USG assets.

The COS will conduct all vetting. During this period, COs with asistance from fellow COs in CIA stations would normally conduct their own background checks as their was not a formal procedure for such clearence checks.

Often, military personnel were recruited for their superior patrotic zeal and desire to serve. Military personnel were often pushed to not reenlist or to resign commissions, seek employment in areas where the CO had a approved recruited asset in place in order to provide dedicated operational support to one operation.

COS will use back stopped cover ID when conducting vetting and set up of Traviler requirements.

The Travler MUST be instructed that their involvement is COVERT. Their will be NO RECORD or USG involvment. They are ON THEIR OWN. Other than the handling CO, the only personal contact that will be made/used will be conducted by unwitting Non Official Cover Officers (NOC) who are only told that they are contacting a asset to provide operational requirements. No contact will be made on USG or USI property, except for meeting arrainged by cut outs and in obsoleate but still certified for Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facality (SCIF) conference rooms or a cleared contractor SCIF. The use of unwitting retired and unwitting retired contract COs to arrange personal meetings are recommended.