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Pentagon to cut funding to CIA counter-terrorism missions
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PENTAGON sources have announced that they are pulling military support for CIA counter-terrorism missions by January 2021, ahead of the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden.

Citing a number of officials “familiar with the matter,” military news site Defense One reported that Acting Under-Secretary of Defence for Intelligence, Ezra Cohen-Watnik, was carrying out a review of resources.

He was appointed by the Trump administration just a week after the US presidential election and is understood to be reallocating resources to missions relating to Russia and China.

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