[Informed sources say that the U.S. Department of Defense plans to create a new deep sleeper espionage program] October 22, according to U.S. news on the 21st, multiple people familiar with the matter said that the U.S. Department of Defense plans to create a “more powerful” deep sleeper espionage program to carry out economic warfare against U.S. competitors. According to sources, this new generation espionage program plans to arrange for U.S. agents to disguise themselves as businessmen or other private sector personnel without any public U.S. government identities. The personnel involved will become "a covert force in the Pentagon's large-scale economic warfare operations." According to sources, experts from various services of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Affairs, and a number of retired CIA officials have been recruited to participate in the plan. Currently, the plan is in the preparatory stage and has not yet been put into actual operation. (CCTV News)