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'''Project Avocado''' is a standing Presidential authorization <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast], M. Mazetti, May 24, 2010</ref> which allows U.S. military combatant commanders to assemble task forces for almost any purpose, drawing resources from any military unit. President Obama authorized Project Avocado in the summer of 2009, with a view towards widening U.S. [[counter-terrorism]] activities and powers, under the advisory of former General [[Stanley McCrystal]], then the Director of Operations of the [[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]. Project Avocado provides unprecedented military powers to U.S. operational commanders to conduct unconventional warfare throughout the world.▼
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In May 2010, it was reported that a [[Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute Order]] had been signed on 30 September 2010, by General [[David Petraeus]]. This order was signed in secret, provided sweeping new powers to military and intelligence agencies for information-gathering in the Middle-East, [[Horn of Africa]] and other regions unspecified. The Order focused on intelligence gathering — by American troops, foreign businesspeople, academics or others — to identify militants and provide “persistent situational awareness,” while forging ties to local indigenous groups. The order did not authorize offensive strikes in any specific countries.<ref>[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/obama-gives-commanders-wide-berth-for-secret-warfare/57202/ Obama Gives Commanders Wide Berth for Secret Warfare], the Atlantic, May 25, 2010</ref>▼
▲'''Project Avocado''' is a standing Presidential authorization <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast], M. Mazetti, May 24, 2010</ref> which allows U.S. military combatant commanders to assemble task forces for almost any purpose, drawing resources from any military unit.<ref name="Ambinder"/> President Obama authorized Project Avocado in the summer of 2009, with a view towards widening U.S. [[counter-terrorism]] activities and powers, under the advisory of former General [[Stanley McCrystalA. McChrystal]], then the Director of Operations of the [[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]. Project Avocado provides unprecedented military powers to U.S. operational commanders to conduct unconventional warfare throughout the world.<ref name="Ambinder"/>
▲In May 2010, it was reported that a [[Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute Order]] had been signed on 30 September 2010, by General [[David Petraeus]].<ref name="Mazzetti">{{cite news |last1=Mazzetti |first1=Mark |title=U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html |access-date=25 December 2010 |work=The New York Times (www.nytimes.com) |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=24 May 2010 |df=mdy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526103132/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html |archive-date=26 May 2010 |location=New York, NY |language=en |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |quote=A version of this article appeared in print on May 25, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition.}}</ref> This order was signed in secret, provided sweeping new powers to military and intelligence agencies for information-gathering in the Middle-East, [[Horn of Africa]] and other regions unspecified. The Order focused on intelligence gathering — by American troops, foreign businesspeople, academics or others — to identify militants and provide “persistent situational awareness,” while forging ties to local indigenous groups. The order did not authorize offensive strikes in any specific countries.<ref name="Ambinder">[http{{cite news |last1=Ambinder |first1=Marc |title=Obama Gives Commanders Wide Berth for Secret Warfare |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/obama-gives-commanders-wide-berth-for-secret-warfare/57202/ Obama|access-date=25 GivesDecember Commanders2010 Wide|work=The BerthAtlantic for|publisher=The SecretAtlantic Warfare],Monthly theGroup Atlantic,LLC |date=25 May 25,2010 |df=mdy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527155839/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/obama-gives-commanders-wide-berth-for-secret-warfare/57202/ |archive-date=27 May 2010 |location=Washington, DC |language=en |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
The Petraeus Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute Order allows the U.S. military to insert American personnel into Iran, which is now authorized under Project Avocado, a particularly unprecedented power which was not authorized under prior U.S. presidential administrations.
Project Avocado is now known under another name; that name is not publicly known.<ref name="Ambinder"/>
==Jason Rezaian Arrest==
In 2014, [[Jason Rezaian]] was working as a journalist in Tehran where his avocado obsession was cited as the basis for his and his wife Yegi’s arrest by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; it turned out his campaign coincided with the American intelligence operation, the code name of which was “avocado”.<ref name="FT">{{cite news |title=New podcast 544 Days brings improbable humour to a bleak story |url=https://www.ft.com/content/0ecd5510-4393-4dd6-818d-8f2ad287ce9e |access-date=10 November 2023 |work=Financial Times (www.ft.com) |publisher=The Financial Times Limited |date=11 October 2021 |df=mdy-all |location=London |language=en |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Counterterrorism in the United States]]
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[[Category:Obama administration initiatives]]