The Deep State Is Leaking Trump’s Most Sensitive Undercover Operations To The Washington Post

Anonymous sources have exposed sensitive details of the Trump administration’s reported plans to establish a clandestine espionage program targeting China to legacy media, potentially revealing American intelligence strategies to foreign adversaries.

The Pentagon is reportedly developing a deep-cover intelligence operation that would embed American operatives within private-sector businesses to gather intelligence on China and other foreign adversaries, according to The Washington Post. Six individuals familiar with the initiative disclosed details about its leadership, capabilities and internal planning despite the program’s sensitive nature and the Pentagon’s denial of its existence. . .

The alleged new “non-official cover officer” program is being headed by Tom Rakusan. Rakusan’s background includes a 39-year career in the CIA in which he held a leadership position during the first Trump administration. Following his 2021 retirement, he worked at a private equity firm co-founded by now Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, the Washington Post alleges. He has now returned to the Pentagon as Senior Adviser to Feinberg, according to his LinkedIn page.

This should not be in the news, puts some Americans there now at risk given how paranoid the MSS is. Will they really beleive the program has not started? – Pentagon looks to build a deep-cover spy program to confront China https://t.co/21XZVTo67m

— Bill Bishop (@niubi) October 21, 2026

Several of the leakers appear to be former colleagues with personal grudges against Rakusan. One, a White House official during Trump’s first term, referred to him as a “pipe swinger.”

“Rakusan just wants to build his own CIA down in the Pentagon,” an anonymous former CIA official told The Washington Post. (Read more from “The Deep State Is Leaking Trump’s Most Sensitive Undercover Operations To The Washington Post” HERE)