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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCIA Tweet
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We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
10:49 AM - 6 Jun 2014
?@CIA
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
10:49 AM - 6 Jun 2014
https://twitter.com/CIA/statuses/474971393852182528
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CIA Tweet (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2014
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librechik
(30,674 posts)1. good one! Who knew they had a sense o humor?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. Why would clandestine services have a social networking account?
I don't want to follow them and I don't want them following me.
Famous CIA tweets...
Aug 1953... Mosaddeq overthrown by the Shah, what a coincidence, we were nowhere near there at the time.
Contra??? That's a Nintendo game, right?
Bay of Pigs, is that a BBQ joint in Little Havana?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)3. ...
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)4. More propaganda on the way. nt
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)7. Ya think?
bigtree
(85,987 posts)5. I'd like to see them tweet about the drone memos they're working to suppress
I liked WikiLeaks' response:
WikiLeaks ?@wikileaks 10h
.@CIA We look forward to sharing great classified info about you http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_report_into_shoring_up_Afghan_war_support_in_Western_Europe,_11_Mar_2010
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_Red_Cell_Memorandum_on_United_States_%22exporting_terrorism%22,_2_Feb_2010
More https://search.wikileaks.org/?q=CIA
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)6. Kinda like the Mafia tweeting they're just businessmen.