The U.S. Defense Department denied a report Sunday by the Washington Post concerning the creation of a new U.S. intelligence unit. According to the newspaper report, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was behind the alleged Pentagon-based agency that would enter the traditional domain of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by focusing on foreign intelligence gathering. The Pentagon in a press conference stated that there was no unit for intelligence operations directly controlled by the Department of Defense.
