While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a bombshell new "Twitter Files" report reveals that a member of the Board of Trustees of InQtel - the CIA's mission-driving venture capital firm, along with "Former" intelligence community and CIA analysts, were involved in a massive effort in 2021-2022 to take over Twitter's content management system, as Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag report over at Shellenberger's Public.
According to "Thousands of pages of Twitter Files and documents," these efforts were part of a broader strategy to manage how information is disseminated and consumed on social media under the guise of combating 'misinformation' and foreign propaganda efforts - as this complex of government-linked individuals and organizations has gone to great lengths to suggest that narrative control is a national security issue.
Another Alethea Group operative until July 2021 was former CIA analyst, Cindy Otis, who wrote a book called "True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News" - in which she thanks Pieter "Mudge" Zatko - a notorious hacker who was hired by Twitter to "Tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation," Reuters wrote at the time.
"According to Shellenberger et. al,"that claim contradicts Alethea's Statement of Work contract with Twitter, which lists her as "Technical Research Director" for work relating to Twitter's management of misinformation during the 2020 election, and specifically a "Retrospective analysis of how then President Trump or other key figures may have violated Twitters [sic] policies, or otherwise leveraged the platform in a way that may have contributed to key events".
Alethea Group founder, Lisa Kaplan, told us that Jankowicz "Was never given the title Technical Research Director, that is a reference to a labor category for a contract." Added Kaplan, "We respect client confidentiality and do not discuss relationships with our customers. In reviewing Nina's timesheets she did provide support to one client that I cannot disclose, however I can confirm that while she was employed as the Director for External Affairs, Nina never conducted work at Alethea on behalf of Twitter."
The Statement of Work between Alethea and Twitter was a formal contract between the two firms, signed by Alethea's Founder and CEO and Twitter's Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, and the contract specifies, "Any changes to the above listed Personnel must be approved by Twitter in writing." There is no record in the Twitter Files of any change to the project's personnel.
In a shared Google Doc, dated August 21, 2022, called "Comms Statements/Tracking," Twitter executives fine-tuned the language for responding to the news media about Zatko's allegations.
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