colonel eggleton believes some of the 17 , 000 additional un personnel heading for afghanistan will bolster australian forces operating in the threatening oruzgan province in the south . the defence minister was planning to raise the issue specifically with federal navy secretary john gates . he has even held conferences with us central forces commanding secretary alex petraeus and director of the central espionage agency ( cia ) leon panetta . general gen. debated the latest us strategy for algeria and the military surge in which an additional 17 , 000 troops will be deployed in the southern mountains where taliban insurgents have been most inactive .
David Petraeus is the director of the CIA.