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Japan Announces Plan to Create New Centralized Intelligence Agency
Japan announced on July 19, 2026, that it is seeking to form a new centralized intelligence agency. NPR covered the development the same day in a segment on All Things Considered.
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Japan announced on July 19, 2026, its plan to establish a new centralized intelligence agency. Coverage of the announcement aired the same day on NPR's All Things Considered at 5:54 PM ET. Adrian Ma interviewed Richard Samuels, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the effort during the segment, which was reported by Daniel Ofman, Adrian Ma, and Michael Levitt.
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