A former CSIS intelligence analyst reveals how state actors leverage organized crime networks to conduct operations against diaspora communities while maintaining strategic distance. This briefing to Congressional staff examines the emerging security threat of governments outsourcing targeting activities to criminal groups, exploiting the plausible deniability such arrangements provide. The testimony highlights evolving transnational crime tactics that blur traditional boundaries between state-sponsored operations and criminal enterprises.

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