Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strategic Assessments Branch

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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 17:38, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strategic Assessments Branch

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not notable Mnnlaxer (talk) 16:45, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This page is about a proposed group of 10 CIA analysts to perform strategic analysis of Bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism. There is no official name to the unit and it never got off the ground. There are only a few mentions of the phrase "strategic assessments branch" in relation to the CIA and they are all based on one mention in the 9/11 Commission Report, page 342:

All mentions of the group are sourced to the 9/11 report.

The coincidental timing of the new chief starting on September 10, 2001 is probably the reason the article was created in the first place. The article's creator User:Frank Freeman also created a deleted article A Strategic Analyst on 9/11 (see User_talk:Frank_Freeman#AfD nomination of A Strategic Analyst On 9.2F11) which was about a disaster test exercise the National Reconnaissance Office scheduled for 9/11 that simulated a small jet hitting their headquarters. I took this text out of Strategic Assessments Branch here: [1].

This material has been inserted into Bin Laden Issue Station, George Tenet, Central Intelligence Agency, International counter-terrorism activities of CIA and History of the Central Intelligence Agency for the sole purpose of adding the wikilink to this article. Those are the only incoming links to this article. Mnnlaxer (talk) 17:15, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: It appears to be an unverifiable allegation written in the blink of an eye. The reference to Steve Coll is a reference to Coll's quotation of the 9/11 Commission. This initiative seems to be one of those fever-dream proposals that were made around 9/11/01 that were over before the nightmare of the massive overhaul of the Department of Homeland Security took place. So, unverifiable, except as a proposal, and surely not notable, since no one has been writing about this "branch" that didn't come into existence. Hithladaeus (talk) 00:27, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Hitgladaeus and WP:MILNG.--Tomandjerry211 (Let's have a chat) 14:52, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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