'Pentagon creates world's largest clandestine force for nefarious ops' Pentagon has created the world's largest clandestine force in the past 10 years, which has carried out the very "nefarious" operations the US itself repeatedly condemns, according to a media report. | 9 Jun 2021 3:02 AM GMT WASHINGTON: Pentagon has created the world's largest clandestine force in the past 10 years, which has carried out the very "nefarious" operations the US itself repeatedly condemns, according to a media report. The Newsweek magazine's exclusive report, titled "Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army", said that after a two-year investigation, it found "some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called 'signature reduction'".