Pentagon Plans Covert Economic-Warfare Spy Program, Sources Say

The signal here is structural: economic statecraft is being pushed toward human-intelligence methods, blurring the line between commercial actors and covert state activity. For crypto and RWA markets, the relevant exposure is indirect but real — if operatives are embedded in private-sector roles, the compliance and counterparty-diligence assumptions that underpin cross-border tokenized finance become harder to verify. The program is still in planning, so whether it moves from concept to funded capability, and how private firms are expected to screen for it, is the open question worth tracking.