Among other "outside of the box" ideas, former CIA spymaster Harry Crumpton, now head of the Crumpton Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm, wants the U.S. to investigate the use of portable wind and solar power generators and modern mining equipment to improve the economics of granite and marble production in Pakistan's Taliban-dominated tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

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