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The CIA Joins Twitter
A year ago, in the aftermath of the Snowden revelations, Twitter exploded with countless @NSA derivative impersonator accounts, however not one of them belonged to the real NSA. Fast forward to June 6, 2014 when we learn that the one agency which until the arrival of the NSA on center stage, symbolized America's spycraft and shady government overthrow tactics, that would be the CIA of course, and which since the advent of the NSA has been relegated largely to B-grade spycraft status, has joined Twitter.
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
According to WaPo, "The Central Intelligence Agency is announcing today that it’s getting into the social media biz. “@CIA” will be its handle on Twitter, the short-attention-span platform with 255 million monthly active users, and it’ll also launch on Facebook.
The presence on these premier social media sites will supplement the CIA’s existing digital presence, which includes a Web site and Flickr and YouTube accounts. CIA Director John Brennan explained the move in a press release: “By expanding to these platforms, CIA will be able to more directly engage with the public and provide information on CIA’s mission, history, and other developments. We have important insights to share, and we want to make sure that unclassified information about the Agency is more accessible to the American public that we serve, consistent with our national security mission.”
Don’t get too excited, however, about the level of detail in the tweets and Facebook posts. Though a press release on the new accounts says that the agency will post the “latest news, statements, and career information,” consider the order that came down from the director of national intelligence earlier this year. It stipulated a requirement that intelligence employees seek authorization before talking to the media about a broad basket of “intelligence-related information.”
Given such constraints, it’s a safe bet that the published information will go heavy on promotional fare. The press release notes that tweets will showcase “artifacts and other information from the CIA’s Museum — the best museum most people never get to see. CIA will also post updates and information from the Agency’s ‘World Factbook,’ a unique public resource and educational tool, as well as unclassified intelligence histories and other information.”
For those curious how the CIA get control of the @CIA handle, a department spokesperson says that "CIA filed an impersonation complaint with Twitter and they secured the @CIA account for us, which is routine for government agencies."
So while it is safe to say that just like the Fed's account on Twitter, so CIA's will also be exclusively a PR placeholder, if by any chance a 3rd party individual ends up being followed by the @CIA, it may be time to panic.
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#WatchingOutForYou
#FullRetard
I'm sure this isn't their first tweet. Maybe their first using their own identity...
The CIA Joins Twitter
Nice to hear; given that Twitter joined the CIA long ago...
Isn't it ironic how we have enslaved you>? ;) rotflmao #CIA
tortur chambers loud 2day. gosh shut up already! ahaha #interrogationz4evah
I can confirm that this is fucking arrogance.
jist overthru burma for shitz n giglz. thats how we roll #hiddenagenda
"We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
I'm not laughing.
Aww, Al Qaeda got a twtter account, how cute.
Do listening to their own twits makes the thing recursive? Stackoverflow.
Might happen, listening to their own lies turned already recursive. Stackoverflow soon.
Cab't wait till somebody hacks their Twitter account. Should make for some good laughs. And possibly WWIII.
lol...funny ain't it...and the people would still be divided on if it was patriotism or treason.
(Shakes head)
Try routing something to @lQaeda and see if it goes to them
"We know what you did last summer."
#FUCK OFF
Only a surveillance sage like Gene Parmesean could bring wisdom like this!
#ICU
recall, just a few years back, the U.S. gov legalized propaganda....
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/11/defense-bill-legalizes-us-propaganda/
which means the gov was breaking the law for decades before that.
Here Kitty Kitty. I have a tweet for you.
Honey, please stop teasing the intelligence operatives.
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#rekt
Dear heavens, I feared you were posting an ASCII penis....
It appears both of you lost fingers to the bandsaw.
CIA took the wire cutters to them
they've always been there....
#FuckU #WeKnowYourPornHabits
#TrollBait
#Jailbait
#HoneyTrap
#Entrapment
#Blackmail
#FakeAccount
So they don't know if they have tweeted before?
I'd tweet if they didn't already know what I was going to send before I pushed return.
Real time black ops tweets would be killer (har har har).
Was that sarcasm?
What is sarcasm anyway?
Can you render someone for sarcasm?
I can't wait for the inevitable #AskCIA.
Q. "My neighbor has a lot of guns, and rambles on about The Constitution and the Federal Reserve and Jekyll Island, whatever that is. Should I be concerned?"
A. "Shelter in place. We'll be there in ten minutes. When you see the black SUV's come out and point us to your neighbor."
+1 but I do believe that would be #askDHS. CIA would answer that he is a limited hangout.
B. Do you think he has any ammo or food, we're kinda hungry?
C. Don't worry he probably has spare food and water and will defend you to keep you around as an early warning system.
D. What kind of assets does he have, and are there cameras?
#sextapes
So CIA -- tell us what you are wearing.
Tweeting is for twats
Twating.
I wonder if the NSA will spy on the CIA will spy on the NSA will spy on the....
Inquiries and job applications to the CIA may be e-mailed care of
NSA @ www.(any website)
Well, glad to see that they are going back to a policy of "plausible deniability" anyway...
How cute.
You know they are out of control when they get cocky.
I was more thinking irrelevant...
Chinese saying: "man who walk with hands in pants...is feeling cocky!"
Spooky.
Guess that's why drudge cleared out
ZunZuneo is more their style
Do they have a Zune in the "Museum of Epic Failures" yet?
The CIA tweeting is oxymoronic - and an epic failure.
+100 MsCreant
Is this your first effort at 'community organizing' Tylers?
Good Gawd ! ...like we're not already buried in kleptocratic propaganda.
USSA - where twitter follows you.
When they open up an account named CIA on ZH then....bet I made you look huh
didn't they try to destabilize the cuban gubbermint using twitter or something like that? @the cia is lame hashtag dot gov
Arrest the City of London.
well, it makes me feel safer now that the CIA is tweeting jokes
So they hired some ditz, or neckbeard to post on twitter as a social handler.
big deal.
Remain Objective. It's the key to keeping your head on your shoulders when the rest of the idiots are being swayed by show and spectacle.
I'm sure they were jealous of the success that Jen Psaki has had using twitter diplomacy.
Look at the number of favorites and retweets......
Pathetic
Will the "following" list defeat the purpose of the agency?
new national pastime, hack the CIA's twitter account.
I'm not a twitterer, how many digits can there be for a twitter password?
(I wont hold my breath, it wouldn't surpise me if not one person at Zero hedge didn't use Twitter)
Does Kim K read ZH?
#overthrowelectedgovermentsinstalldictatorissuecredittakeresourseswhencreditisdue
You are shitting me.
Check your six
I'm reading this just as a GOOGLE SPY CAR drives by with it's funky roof-mounted 360-degree camera ball...wish I had a little warning, I would have saluted for posterity
OT: I was looking at some property in Detroit. When i checked the address on Google Street View, i could see the van, tent, and 3 employees in hazmat suits, from the mold removal company!
Do your fucking job CIA! No pardons will be granted for treason.
Repeat that above statement 20 times. ^^^^^
Treason IS their "job."
And I am Article 3, Section 3 "Witness One."
" the illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer",
Kissinger quote
Don't they own and control twitter?!
Bummer ... I don't use twit-ter, never will and would prefer not to read what the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, ETC.gov tweet.
@McMolotov - Full Retard indeed. A full retard on mollies and LSD. @MsCreant - Yes. Very Spooky.
What the fuck? I'm not even going to visit that twitter account. You will be on a special observation list. Watch for the true idiots who start harrassing the CIA. The truly braindead. If the CIA's twitter account gets hacked, is that the NSA? Or a CIA funded hacker on some "counter-intel propaganderize your sheep ass"? what the fuck am i talking about? they are logging this post and all the ip web location blah blah shit right now. what. the.fuck. comes. next? flike i said. full retard on mollies and lsd. you are now in the big show. anything goes.
Black ops Tweetshow!
Now when they apprehend tea party folks and Alex jones ill have instant knowledge hahahahaha so asinine its ridiculous
Maybe they will post moments-before-death photos from the wedding party.
We can neither confirm nor deny that we are the Globalists' Gestapo because most of us are compartmentalized and totally unaware.
Wonder if they'll Tweet when the big Coke shipments arrive all ready for distribution to the streets
"We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
#PersonaManagementSoftware
quote not from above link...but from here.