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Tag: intelligence

  • How the CIA Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Meme

    How the CIA Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Meme

    The Transparency Paradox The Central Intelligence Agency’s transformation from an organization whose very existence was officially denied to one that maintains active social media presences in multiple languages represents one of the most striking institutional pivots in modern governance. Where once the CIA operated through cutouts, dead drops, and plausible deniability, it now publishes recruitment…

  • The Filer

    The Filer

    Your name tag still works on Tuesdays. That’s how you know it’s Tuesday—the light turns green instead of red. The new security system they installed after the purge has a 40% failure rate on credentials, but you’ve figured out the rhythm. Tuesday mornings, the humidity is right, the reader accepts your GS-14 badge. You sit…

  • A Scanner Darkly, A Nation Blindly: How Russia Profits From American In-Fighting

    A Scanner Darkly, A Nation Blindly: How Russia Profits From American In-Fighting

    Introduction The United States is once again grappling with a collision of foreign influence and domestic extremism. In recent years, Russian information operations have repeatedly intersected with modern U.S. right-wing movements – from fringe online cultures to the halls of power – in ways that expose a darker, systemic vulnerability in American democracy. These intersections…