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'''Monte Overacre''' worked for the CIA for 10 years.
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'''Monte Overacre''' worked for the CIA for 10 years. In [[1992]], after nearly a decade of paramilitary adventures in [[Central America]] and [[Southeast Asia]], Monte Overacre was retrained in [[telecommunications]], and deployed in [[San Diego]], where he suddenly found himself in the white-collar world of [[economic espionage]]. According to associates, Overacre's job required him to debrief [[corporate executives]] from the area's biggest [[technology companies]] who had returned home from overseas trips.<ref name=motherjones>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/01/left-out-cold/</ref>
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He died in a suspicious 1995 air crash.
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==Activities==
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Overacre operated in San Diego under a cover provided by the [[U.S. Department of Commerce]], using his real name. <ref name=motherjones/>
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His most important job was recruiting overseas spies. Under his assignment, code-named MXSCOPE, he worked on the campus of a university in the San Diego area, where he managed a team posing as telecommunications academics, [[recruiting]] visiting foreign technology experts to spy for the U.S. back in their home countries-from [[South America]] to [[Europe]], [[Africa]] to [[Asia]]-to keep the agency on top of new technological innovations.  Under the guise of running a series of seminars on telecommunications, Overacre and his MXSCOPE team would invite scientists, engineers, and government and corporate officials from all over the world to come to San Diego. Once there, unwitting attendees would be scoped out by Overacre, evaluated, and targeted for recruitment as potential CIA agents, or “assets,” after they returned to their home countries.<ref name=motherjones/>
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Te recruitment efforts were typically unsavory. "The old methods work even with the nerds, sometimes even better," he wrote. "Trips to massage parlors, strip clubs, wild bars with aggressive white women, etc., make these guys come unglued, just like any truck driver. Once you have gotten a guy laid and paid the bill for him, you have a friend for life. Trust me, it almost always works if the assessment shows a lack of nooky in the target’s profile."<ref name=motherjones/>
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The most attractive targets, he wrote in an e-mail, were the experts in such sought-after technologies as “digital switch architectures, placements, telecom network design and hierarchies, digital microwave frequencies, [and] types and manufacture of digital optical fiber being laid to replace old twisted-pair networks."<ref name=motherjones/>
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Overacre, finding the office job boring, allegedly left the CIA in October 1994.<ref name=motherjones/>
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==Death==
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In the last month of Overacre’s life, he was scared. "He started running into people he knew from the old days, people in the [[Guatemalan army]], from the air force, people who knew him from his days with the CIA," says his brother Dave. And, says [[Lora Dillon]], Overacre "started doing some countersurveillance" to try to make it harder for anyone to tail him.<ref name=motherjones/>
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Revision as of 06:11, 2 January 2024

Person.png Monte Overacre ISGPRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook)
Monte Overacre.gif
BornJuly 30, 1955
Idaho, USA
Died5 April 1995 (Age 39)
Guatemala
Cause of death
Air crash
Victim ofassassination?

Employment.png Spook Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
1984 - 1992
EmployerCIA
During the very brutal counterinsurgencies

Monte Overacre worked for the CIA for 10 years. In 1992, after nearly a decade of paramilitary adventures in Central America and Southeast Asia, Monte Overacre was retrained in telecommunications, and deployed in San Diego, where he suddenly found himself in the white-collar world of economic espionage. According to associates, Overacre's job required him to debrief corporate executives from the area's biggest technology companies who had returned home from overseas trips.[1]

He died in a suspicious 1995 air crash.


Activities

Overacre operated in San Diego under a cover provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, using his real name. [1]

His most important job was recruiting overseas spies. Under his assignment, code-named MXSCOPE, he worked on the campus of a university in the San Diego area, where he managed a team posing as telecommunications academics, recruiting visiting foreign technology experts to spy for the U.S. back in their home countries-from South America to Europe, Africa to Asia-to keep the agency on top of new technological innovations. Under the guise of running a series of seminars on telecommunications, Overacre and his MXSCOPE team would invite scientists, engineers, and government and corporate officials from all over the world to come to San Diego. Once there, unwitting attendees would be scoped out by Overacre, evaluated, and targeted for recruitment as potential CIA agents, or “assets,” after they returned to their home countries.[1]

Te recruitment efforts were typically unsavory. "The old methods work even with the nerds, sometimes even better," he wrote. "Trips to massage parlors, strip clubs, wild bars with aggressive white women, etc., make these guys come unglued, just like any truck driver. Once you have gotten a guy laid and paid the bill for him, you have a friend for life. Trust me, it almost always works if the assessment shows a lack of nooky in the target’s profile."[1]

The most attractive targets, he wrote in an e-mail, were the experts in such sought-after technologies as “digital switch architectures, placements, telecom network design and hierarchies, digital microwave frequencies, [and] types and manufacture of digital optical fiber being laid to replace old twisted-pair networks."[1]

Overacre, finding the office job boring, allegedly left the CIA in October 1994.[1]

Death

In the last month of Overacre’s life, he was scared. "He started running into people he knew from the old days, people in the Guatemalan army, from the air force, people who knew him from his days with the CIA," says his brother Dave. And, says Lora Dillon, Overacre "started doing some countersurveillance" to try to make it harder for anyone to tail him.[1]


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