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CIA Plans Social Networking Site For Spies
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/59868,cia-plans-social-networking-site-for-sp=
ies.aspx
By Iain Thomson
The CIA is to launch a social networking site to allow members of the
intelligence community around the world to converse and swap ideas and
information online.
The A-Space site, set up by the US Director of National Intelligence
(DNI), will go live in December.
"This is very typical within the intelligence community of the
approach to social networking tools," Mike Wertheimer, the senior DNI
official for analytic transformation and technology, wrote in his
blog.
"We are willing to experiment in ways that we have never experimented
before. It breaks a lot of traditional sense that people's lives are
at risk, and how can you take any step that increases that risk?"
The site will have web-based email and a predictive program that
matches interests to information.
A-Space will be open only to US agents initially, but the DNI hopes to
include agents from other countries as long as they share, rather than
just take, information.
"Earlier this year, the CIA used Facebook to advertise employment
opportunities with the agency," George Little, a CIA spokesman, told
the Financial Times.
"This effort, part of a much broader campaign leveraging traditional
and new advertising media, was used strictly for informational
purposes."
The DNI has also created an information resource just like Wikipedia
for agents to share information.
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