Question about the DIA

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

+1. Circa 2000 both organizations are going to be making it up as they go along to cope with changed missions, personnel losses, and loss of resources and capabilities.

As military or not, circa 2000, I can see DIA assigning some sort of military rank to all field agents, with analysts and admin and such being a jumble of .mil and civilian personnel. Exception might be foreign nationals serving as agents -- don't know if they'd have US military rank awarded to them or not.

Military rank would at least reduce the risk of being shot as a spy (in theory anyway). Common practice in WW2 on the allied side at least was to commission agents (in most cases, sometimes NCO rank was awarded) before sending on missions.