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   |author2=Eric Schmitt
   |author2=Eric Schmitt
   | title =  Reports on Pentagon's New Spy Units Set Off Questions in Congress
   | title =  Reports on Pentagon's New Spy Units Set Off Questions in Congress
   | work = [[The New York Times]]
   | work = The New York Times
   | date = January 25, 2005
   | date = January 25, 2005
   | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/politics/25intel.html
   | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/politics/25intel.html
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   |author2=David Ensor |author3=Joe Johns
   |author2=David Ensor |author3=Joe Johns
   | title = Congress eyes once-secret Pentagon unit
   | title = Congress eyes once-secret Pentagon unit
   | publisher = [[CNN]]
   | publisher = CNN
   | date = January 24, 2005
   | date = January 24, 2005
   | url = http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/pentagon.intel/index.html
   | url = http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/pentagon.intel/index.html
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==Overview==
==Overview==
Originally titled '''Human Augmentation Teams''', the Strategic Support Branch was established to give DoD an increase of [[human intelligence (espionage)|human intelligence]] capabilities and what was considered by former [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] an end to "near total dependence on the CIA" for human intelligence.<ref name=SUERD>
Originally titled '''Human Augmentation Teams''', the Strategic Support Branch was established to give DoD an increase of [[human intelligence (espionage)|human intelligence]] capabilities and what was considered by former [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] Donald Rumsfeld an end to "near total dependence on the CIA" for human intelligence.<ref name=SUERD>
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   | first = Eric
   | title = Pentagon Sends Its Spies to Join Fight on Terror
   | title = Pentagon Sends Its Spies to Join Fight on Terror
   | work = [[The New York Times]]
   | work = The New York Times
   | date = January 24, 2005
   | date = January 24, 2005
   | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/politics/24rumsfeld.html
   | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/politics/24rumsfeld.html