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Inside the secret world of the CIA's social media team
2019-05-02
[The Hill] A government agency known for its secrecy is making a splash in a very public forum: Twitter.
Because our day job is so boring.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been raising eyebrows with its increasingly conversational and pop culture-filled social media presence, in recent months giving shout-outs to hit Hollywood films, game show hosts and other buzzy bits. And just last week, the agency added an Instagram account to its growing social shop.

"We’re trying to be as transparent as possible with the constraints that the CIA currently has," agency press secretary Timothy Barrett says.

Tweeting to the world isn’t exactly cloak-and-dagger, and the aim for a public face is an undertaking that has unique quirks at one of the most secure places on the planet. But when ITK wanted to know how the social media sausage was made, to our surprise, Barrett invited us to Langley, Va., to speak with the some of the secretive squad about how the CIA gets its message out online.
Leaflet drops and sound trucks are so old school.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Ref # 7: Obviously the group (CIA, DOJ and FBI) who constructed the political surveillance and spy operations are trying to present their side of the story, prior to investigation by AG Bill Barr and the soon-to-be-released IG report.

My take on it as well. Deep State advance damage control.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-02 18:13  

#7  Here We Go – FBI Admits Using Spies Against Trump Campaign…
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-05-02 18:03  

#6  #1 Nobody reads newspapers or watches CNN anymore.

Why pay to be lied to?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-05-02 11:14  

#5  Tasks already undertaken by Barry Soetoro, Val Jar, and Brennan.

And NASA.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-05-02 10:16  

#4  What's next - a Muslim outreach program or assessing the threat of 'climate change' on national security?

Tasks already undertaken by Barry Soetoro, Val Jar, and Brennan.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-02 07:55  

#3  What's next - a Muslim outreach program or assessing the threat of 'climate change' on national security?
Posted by: Raj   2019-05-02 05:36  

#2  Brought to you by the same people who overthrew the democratic government in Iran.

The world would be a safer place without the CIA proxy wars. Also individual freedoms would benefit from a reduced NSA spy network gathering information on millions of decent Americans and American allies. Stop bugging our allies offices and personal phones.

The American deep state has become the 1984 ministry of truth and it needs to be reduced and controlled for the sake of world freedom.

Does the United States require seventeen intelligence agencies that alone cost more than Russia spends on defence? Particularly when they have a long history of lying, incompetence and in some cases criminality (torture, murder, support of genocide, etc.).
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-05-02 05:06  

#1  Nobody reads newspapers or watches CNN anymore. They had to modernize their disinformation venues.

Not mentioned here, but it might be instructive to remember the target audience.

Be real nifty if they'd get back to what they were hired to do, collecting foreign intelligence and conducting analysis & assessments.

Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-02 04:30  

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