CIA ADMITS FULL MONITORING OF FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS

Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows.

But what does the US military use those same networks for? Well, we can’t tell you: That’s “classified,” a CENTCOM spokesman recently informed Raw Story.

One use that’s confirmed, however, is the manipulation of social media through the use of fake online “personas” managed by the military. Recently the US Air Force had solicited private sector vendors for something called “persona management software.” Such a technology would allow single individuals to command virtual armies of fake, digital “people” across numerous social media portals.

These “personas” were to have detailed, fictionalized backgrounds, to make them believable to outside observers, and a sophisticated identity protection service was to back them up, preventing suspicious readers from uncovering the real person behind the account. They even worked out ways to game geolocating services, so these “personas” could be virtually inserted anywhere in the world, providing ostensibly live commentary on real events, even while the operator was not really present.

When Raw Story first reported on the contract for this software, it was unclear what the Air Force wanted with it or even if it had been acquired. The potential for misuse, however, was abundantly clear.

A fake virtual army of people could be used to help create the impression of consensus opinion in online comment threads, or manipulate social media to the point where valuable stories are suppressed.

Ultimately, this can have the effect of causing a net change to the public’s opinions and understanding of key world events.

Wired.com published an article how US spies are making investments in the Company In-Q-Tel in order to monitor your blogs and read your tweets.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using “open source intelligence” - information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords.

"That’s kind of the basic step - get in and monitor," says company senior vice president Blake Cahill.

Then Visible “scores” each post, labeling it as positive or negative, mixed or neutral. It examines how influential a conversation or an author is. (“Trying to determine who really matters,” as Cahill puts it.) Finally, Visible gives users a chance to tag posts, forward them to colleagues and allow them to response through a web interface.

In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track of foreign social media, and give spooks “early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally,” spokesperson Donald Tighe tells Danger Room.

Of course, such a tool can also be pointed inward, at domestic bloggers or tweeters. Visible already keeps tabs on web 2.0 sites for Dell, AT&T and Verizon. For Microsoft, the company is monitoring the buzz on its Windows 7 rollout. For Spam-maker Hormel, Visible is tracking animal-right activists’ online campaigns against the company.

"Anything that is out in the open is fair game for collection," says Steven Aftergood, who tracks intelligence issues at the Federation of American Scientists. But "even if information is openly gathered by intelligence agencies it would still be problematic if it were used for unauthorized domestic investigations or operations. Intelligence agencies or employees might be tempted to use the tools at their disposal to compile information on political figures, critics, journalists or others, and to exploit such information for political advantage. That is not permissible even if all of the information in question is technically ‘open source.’"

Visible chief executive officer Dan Vetras says the CIA is now an “end customer,” thanks to the In-Q-Tel investment. And more government clients are now on the horizon. “We just got awarded another one in the last few days,” Vetras adds.

Tighe disputes this - sort of. “This contract, this deal, this investment has nothing to do with any agency of government and this company,” he says. But Tighe quickly notes that In-Q-Tel does have “an interested  end customer” in the intelligence community for Visibile. And if all goes well, the company’s software will be used in pilot programs at that agency. “In pilots, we use real data. And during the adoption phase, we use it real missions.”

Neither party would disclose the size of In-Q-Tel’s investment in Visible, a 90-person company with expected revenues of about $20 million in 2010. But a source familiar with the deal says the In-Q-Tel cash will be used to boost Visible’s foreign languages capabilities, which already include Arabic, French, Spanish and nine other languages.

Visible has been trying for nearly a year to break into the government field. In late 2008, the company teamed up with the Washington, DC, consulting firm Concepts & Strategies, which has handled media monitoring and translation services for U.S. Strategic Command and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others. On its website, Concepts & Strategies is recruiting “social media engagement specialists” with Defense Department experience and a high proficiency in Arabic, Farsi, French, Urdu or Russian. The company is also looking for an “information system security engineer” who already has a “Top Secret SCI [Sensitive Compartmentalized Information] with NSA Full Scope Polygraph” security clearance.

The intelligence community has been interested in social media for years. In-Q-Tel has sunk money into companies like Attensity, which recently announced its own web 2.0-monitoring service. The agencies have their own, password-protected blogs and wikis - even a MySpace for spooks. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence maintains an Open Source Center, which combs publicly available information, including web 2.0 sites. Doug Naquin, the Center’s Director, told an audience of intelligence professionals in October 2007 that “we’re looking now at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence…. We have groups looking at what they call ‘citizens media’: people taking pictures with their cell phones and posting them on the internet. Then there’s social media, phenomena like MySpace and blogs.”

But, “the CIA specifically needs the help of innovative tech firms to keep up with the pace of innovation in social media. Experienced IC [intelligence community] analysts may not be the best at detecting the incessant shift in popularity of social-networking sites. They need help in following young international internet user-herds as they move their allegiance from one site to another,” Lewis Shepherd, the former senior technology officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, says in an e-mail. “Facebook says that more than 70 percent of its users are outside the U.S., in more than 180 countries. There are more than 200 non-U.S., non-English-language microblogging Twitter-clone sites today. If the intelligence community ignored that tsunami of real-time information, we’d call them incompetent.”

Source:http://worldtruth.tv/cia-admits-full-monitoring-of-facebook-and-other-social-networks/www.disclose.tv

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Is Adam Kokesh Working for the CIA?

Adam Kokesh leads a large contingent of the American “Patriot” movement. His followers are typically Second Amendment activists and Ron Paul devotees – people who are aware enough to perceive that their government does not mean them well, yet naïve enough to think that there is a political solution, whether it come via a maverick politician or displays of civil disobedience.

They lack the perspective to see the real scope of the state machine, who owns it, and the extent to which it hijacks and controls opposition.

Kokesh has been arrested for promoting such antics as a dance-in at the Jefferson Memorial and, most recently, a pro-marijuana rally in Philadelphia. But compared to his latest brainchild – an armed march on Washington, DC and all 50 state capitols – those stunts are mere child’s play.

From a tactical perspective, the concept is a nightmare. One can easily imagine the bloodbath that would inevitably result, and the subsequent justification for draconian gun control, if not a declaration of martial law.

To their credit, many patriot bloggers and alternative media figures have expressed misgivings about Kokesh’s Independance Day marches. Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association has distanced itself from the idea, and the Oathkeepers issued a statement of non-endorsement.

The blogosphere backlash was so strident, Kokesh called off the march on DC. Yet despite anemic support, he is still calling for the state capitol marches to occur.

This is perfect for Kokesh, as he is off the hook. He can’t be in 50 states at once. But he has established the pretext for an event that, should it occur, might prove to be the biggest false flag operation the U.S. “government” has ever perpetrated against the citizenry.

Troubling Details

First, think of the world financial system as a circuit board. As an electrical engineer tweaks a circuit to obtain a desired outcome, so those who generate and control the world’s currency manipulate results to their own ends. Authentic rebel leaders who have garnered too much influence can be cut off from the current, if not removed from the board altogether. By the same token, currency is routinely inducted and op-amped to fund controlled opposition.

Adam’s whole enterprise – high-profile radio show, big website, slick production, mass media attention – bears all the hallmarks of one that has been covertly facilitated, not suppressed.

Second, Adam has voiced his allegiance with the Occupy Wall Street movement. For those who didn’t get the memo yet, OWS is heavily funded by George Soros, a globalist, America-hating, plutocrat Jew.

Third, Adam Kokesh is himself – surprise, surprise – a Jew.

Many would say that is a purely ad hominem observation. I disagree.

Based on testimony from Jim Stone, who infiltrated the Canadian Jewish community, I am inclined to believe that a lot more rank-and-file Jews are “in on it” than we are led to believe.

Think about it. Out of all the brave, disgruntled Iraq veterans who might have struck a meteoric rise to celebrity anti-war dissidence … he just so happened to be a member of a tribe that constitutes a meager 0.3% of US armed forces. Go figure.

Adam served in Iraq as a sergeant in the U.S. Marines 3rd Civil Affairs Group, whose mission explicitly includes psychological operations (psy ops).

Speaking of which, the website Freeadamkokesh.com was created six days before Adam was arrested in Philadelphia on felony charges. Days later, he was released, all charges dropped.

If the authorities were worried that Kokesh posed a real threat to the government, then they would have opted to keep him locked down, don’t you think?

Then there is Charles Kokesh, Adam’s big-money con-man father, presently indicted for illegally selling two elephant tusks in Pensacola, Florida.

Mike Rivero, a good Jew, insightfully speculates that the elder Kokesh’s legal troubles could be used to pressure Adam into proceeding with the march despite the massive opposition from Patriot gun-owners across the US.

But who would be applying that pressure? Moreover, lacking any real support, how could the marches even take place?

Enter the CIA

Researcher and investigative reporter Jim Stone, a former NSA analyst, has recently estimated that the CIA has upwards of 1,500,000 operatives on its payroll.

Stone bases this number on records which he claims have been expunged from the internet.

A Google search reveals the official answer, the Wikipedia answer, and that’s about it.

The Wikipedia answer: 20,000.

The official answer:

Neither the number of employees nor the size of the Agency’s budget can, at present, be publicly disclosed. A common misconception is that the Agency has an unlimited budget, which is far from true. While classified, the budget and size of the CIA are known in detail and scrutinized by the Office of Management and Budget and by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Defense Subcommittees of the Appropriations Committees in both houses of Congress. The resources allocated to the CIA are subject to the same rigorous examination and approval process that applies to all other government organizations.

The Wiki answer is ridiculously low. When you consider the sheer range and scope of the CIA’s operations around the world, from gun-running to drug-smuggling to election-rigging to assassinations to eavesdropping on and monitoring of ever-more-wide-ranging varieties of “terrorists”, 20,000 is an insult to intelligence. Why did Wikipedia even bother stating a number at all?

The second, the official answer, is more telling. Why would the Agency want to withhold the answer, if it were not to conceal a number that would alarm a concerned Patriot? One could argue that it’s for reasons of “national security”, to which I would reply that the term “national security” is really nothing other than a carte blanche excuse to conceal any information that those bastards don’t want to divulge, for any reason at all.

It would pose no threat to the “security” of the United States if the CIA announced its payroll size. Not that the Russians and Chinese don’t know anyway.

On top of that, the official answer is full of lies which are stinkingly obvious to an increasing number of people who, thanks to scandals like Fast and Furious, not to mention all the photos of U.S. troops guarding poppy fields in Afghanistan, have wised up to some of the CIA’s criminal sources of income.

If Stone’s figure is correct – if even two-thirds of it is the real number, in fact – then we already live under the worst tyranny imaginable; the iron fists just have yet to remove their velvet gloves.

Having that many assets would enable the CIA to pull off false-flag armed marches on all 50 state capitols without involving a single genuine Patriot – level-headed opposition among the citizenry to such insanity be damned.

We must be on guard, ever watchful, and as long as we have an internet that is ostensibly free, we must use it to spread observations that incriminate false flag operatives.

As July 4 approaches, be on the lookout for campaigns in your region that slickly agitate for an armed march on your state’s capitol. If they crop up, look into the people behind them, and locate the sources of their funding. After all, it takes money to organize an event … and we know where money comes from, and how hard it is these days to come by.

If an armed march does occur in your area, be sure to document it. Upload your photos and videos and share them via social media. There is an established community of analysts on the net who will waste no time combing your documentation for signs the march was staged. The further we can pull their pants down, the less brazen they can afford to be. Stone has written a good article on the best budget cameras to use for both video and still-shot documentation via zoom lens, so you can avoid getting caught up in the drama and make a clean getaway.

Above all, beware pied pipers that get mass media attention and promise to redress your grievances. None of them is above suspicion. The state, the corporations, the military-industrial complex, and above all, the globalists, who own the media that run cover for all the above, look out for their own. We are on the chopping block.

Adam Kokesh is most certainly not the answer, but he may well be a component of their Final Solution.

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Tinfoil Hat Addendum:

1.

“Adam” in Hebrew means “Man”

“Adam” Vs. “The Man”

“Adam” Vs. “Himself”

“Adam” = “Establishment”

V is an inverted pyramid.

2.

Check out Adam’s Facebook profile image:

- See more at: http://therebel.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=652242:is-adam-kokesh-working-for-the-cia&catid=173:jim-stone&Itemid=1314#sthash.gTfovexS.dpuf

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