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FTA: >Even a switch of employer, or an unexplained gap in one’s résumé, can be a giveaway to a foreign intelligence service, say former officials. In response,
by Jerry2 7y ago
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>Even a switch of employer, or an unexplained gap in one’s résumé, can be a giveaway to a foreign intelligence service, say former officials. In response, the agency has also shifted to recruiting individuals within the companies they already work at, and, with the approval of corporate leadership, secretly transitioning those persons onto the CIA payroll, and training them intermittently and clandestinely, far from any known CIA facility.
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>“There is a serious legal and policy process” in place at the CIA to manage these relationships, says a former official. Otherwise, “you could break industries.”
This is going to be the end of multinational companies. Once a company starts providing cover to CIA officers, those companies will be blacklisted from many countries around the world. This policy will also raise suspicion of pretty much every US company operating abroad.
- rootsudo 7y agoAt the same time, you'd be a fool if you don't think espionage doesn't incorporate "corporate espionage" and many offenses aren't encouraged by nation state. Bosch and GE for example. Siemens and GE.
- sneak 7y agoIt is my belief that there is presently a joint public relations storytelling campaign underway between the US intelligence agencies and the large US internet companies to restore faith in these companies abroad following the Snowden revelations that the NSA is spying on everybody via these services.
- shiftless 7y agoThe US intelligence agencies own everybody and everything, including the large US internet companies, so of course they are helping each other out. Has nothing to do with Snowden though, who isn't who he claims to be.
- drummer 7y agoThe exact same problem exists in China.