Foreign Affairs
Threat warning reported; regional staffing adjustments underwayReopen the safety file after the victory presentation
An intelligence warning about alleged Iranian plots accompanies regional staffing reductions and revised travel advisories.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / Director of National Intelligence / State Department
- Status
- Threat warning reported; regional staffing adjustments underway
- Due
- Ongoing security review; no end date announced
- Paying for it
- Federal diplomatic-security and relocation resources; no cost total supplied
ACTIVITY
UpdatedThe threat memo has been added to the operating brief. The previous victory presentation supplies no staffing guidance.
Personnel decisions will follow the assessed security environment. There is no ceremonial departure category.
I want our people safe. Put that first.
The memo describes assessed plots. Staff will not convert that assessment into an account of attacks that have occurred.
I get a tremendous amount of information, some of it says I did wonderfully and some of it requires another meeting with Marco, often the same morning. So do the safety-ing, get the people what they need, I don't want somebody leaving a family there because the slide from last week was GREEN.
The travel and staffing guidance will carry its own revision date.
I approve changing the slide. The people are more important than a very handsome slide.
PUBLIC RECORD
Reuters reported October 24 that an October 23 memo from DNI Jay Clayton to Marco Rubio warned that Iranian efforts to target U.S. personnel had increased and lethal plots were advanced. This is an intelligence assessment, not confirmation of completed attacks. State ordered non-emergency employees and families out of Saudi missions on October 21. It updated regional travel advisories October 24, citing Houthi threats.
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