CIA director quietly elevated agency’s cyber espionage division

The CIA late last year raised the status of its elite cyber espionage division, providing it more resources to analyze and disrupt digital threats, as well as amp up the agency’s own technological innovation efforts.

The Center for Cyber Intelligence, which had resided within the CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation since 2015, was promoted to a full-fledged mission center last October by Director John Ratcliffe as part of an internal reorganization. 

Ratcliffe elevated the center to “strengthen the Agency’s cyber operations in support of the president’s priorities,” Liz Lyons, a CIA spokeswoman, said in a statement.

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