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 by: Robert Henderson - Sat, 30 Jul 2022 10:31 UTC

On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:07:39 PM UTC+1, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
> I told you guys so many times, HOW your Govts "DECEIVE YOU" 24x7 to
> FOCUS on "low IQ powerless puppets of Potus, Congress, Senators, MPs and
> PMs" who have power ONLY to make social policies.
>
> Foreign policy, Wars and Major Business Decisions are all made by the
> Shadow US Govt CIA NSA MI6 MI5 ASIA ASIO Psychopaths from behind and
> given to your DUMBFUCK Clown Potuses and PMs to execute them.
>
> Your REAL GOVTs of CIA NSA MI6 MI5 etc infiltrated every MSM, BBC,
> Judiciary, Hollywood, Institutions, Academia, Big Tech and COVERTLY
> CONTROL everything you see, hear and watch at minute level, and POISON
> your minds against everybody else as EVIL and your countries as ANGELIC
> DEMOCRACIES while secretly LINKING your brains to NSA HIVE AI Grid with
> your UNIQUE DNA Resonance Frequencies and REMOTELY OPERATING you like
> PUPPETS.
>
> Your govt's CONSTANTLY demonize other countries as "authoritarian" when
> IN REALITY, US and UK are pure evil fascist tyrannies CUNNINGLY SOLD as
> democracies.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Murray also warned that this hand-in-hand relationship also endangers
> individual freedoms, meaning that the Google/CIA connection should worry
> everybody. “All of this threatens individual rights to privacy, free
> speech, freedom of expression. Once they have your data, the U.S.
> government can use it against you at any time,” she told MintPress,
> “It’s really quite frightening.”
>
>
>
> =========================================================================
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> https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engine-google-ranks-cia-agents/281490/
>
> National Security Search Engine: Google’s Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents
>
>
> Google – one of the largest and most influential organizations in the
> modern world – is filled with ex-CIA agents. Studying employment
> websites and databases, MintPress has ascertained that the Silicon
> Valley giant has recently hired dozens of professionals from the Central
> Intelligence Agency in recent years. Moreover, an inordinate number of
> these recruits work in highly politically sensitive fields, wielding
> considerable control over how its products work and what the world sees
> on its screens and in its search results.
>
> Chief amongst these is the trust and safety department, whose staff, in
> the words of then Google trust and safety vice president Kristie
> Canegallo, “[d]ecide what content is allowed on our platform” – in other
> words, setting the rules of the internet, determining what billions see
> and what they do not see. Before Google, Canegallo had been President
> Obama’s Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation and is
> currently Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security.
>
> “We lied, we cheated, we stole”
>
> Many of the team helping Canegallo make calls on what content should be
> allowed in Google searches and on platforms like YouTube were former CIA
> employees. For example:
>
> Jacqueline Lopour spent more than ten years at the CIA, where she
> served as “a leading U.S. Government expert on security challenges in
> South Asia and the Middle East and the go-to writer of quickly needed
> papers for the U.S. President.” She joined Google in 2017 and is
> currently a senior intelligence collection and trust and safety manager.
>
> Between 2010 and 2015, Jeff Lazarus was an economic and political
> analyst for the CIA. In 2017, he was hired as a policy advisor for trust
> and safety at Google, where he worked on suppressing “extremist
> content.” He moved to Apple in 2021.
>
>
>
> Ryan Fugit spent eight years as a CIA officer. Then, in 2019,
> Google convinced him to leave and become a senior manager of trust and
> safety.
>
> As a director of trust and safety, Bryan Weisbard led teams that
> adjudicated “the most sensitive YouTube trust and safety escalations
> globally” and “enforced” the most “urgent and highest priority”
> misinformation and sensitive content decisions. Between 2006 and 2010,
> he was an intelligence officer with the CIA. He is now a director at
> Facebook.
>
> Like Lopour and Lazarus, Nick Rossman concentrated on Iraq while he
> was a CIA analyst (2009-2014). Since January, he has been a senior
> manager in Google’s trust and safety division.
>
> Jacob Barrett, Google’s global lead for safe browsing operations,
> was an analytic lead and open source officer at the CIA between 2007 and
> 2013.
>
> A 12-year CIA political and leadership analyst, Michelle
> Toborowski, left the agency in 2019 to take a job as the intelligence
> analyst lead in trust and safety at YouTube.
>
> The problem with former CIA agents becoming the arbiters of what is true
> and what is false and what should be promoted and what should be deleted
> is that they cut their teeth at a notorious organization whose job it
> was to inject lies and false information into the public discourse to
> further the goals of the national security state. John Stockwell, former
> head of a CIA task force, explained on camera how his organization
> infiltrated media departments the world over, created fake newspapers
> and news agencies, and planted fake news about Washington’s enemies. “I
> had propagandists all over the world,” he said, adding,
>
> We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists
> [to the media]… We ran [faked] photographs that made almost every
> newspaper in the country… We didn’t know of one single atrocity
> committed by the Cubans. It was pure, raw, false propaganda to create an
> illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast.”
>
> Mike Pompeo, former director of the CIA, admitted as much in a talk he
> gave in 2019. As he said to the audience at Texas A&M University,
>
> When I was a cadet, what’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will
> not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA
> director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses
> [on] it!”
>
> And all this is to say nothing about the coup attempts on foreign
> governments, the drug and weapons smuggling and the worldwide network of
> “black sites” where thousands are tortured. Furthermore, many of the
> ex-CIA employees listed participated in some of the worst crimes against
> humanity of the 21st century, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq –
> and are clearly proud of it. So while there is admittedly a limited pool
> of qualified people for roles in cybersecurity, it is wholly
> inappropriate that Google is employing so many spooks to run their most
> sensitive, influential operations. And it is especially troubling that
> so many of the individuals mentioned throughout were plucked directly
> from the CIA to work at Google – a fact that suggests that either Google
> is actively recruiting from the intelligence services or that there is
> some sort of backroom deal between Silicon Valley and the national
> security state.
>
> Elizabeth Murray, a retired intelligence agent who spent 27 years at the
> CIA and other intelligence organizations, explained how Google might
> benefit from hiring former spies. “By snagging a CIA employee, a company
> can save a considerable sum,” she told MintPress, noting that these
> individuals have been highly trained and likely have a security
> clearance – something that is exceptionally difficult to attain in
> civilian organizations.
>
> “In terms of benefit to the CIA, a CIA officer could spend several years
> acquiring a unique set of skills at a social media conglomerate and then
> return to the agency, parlaying their newly acquired expertise to the
> benefit of the agency,” Murray added.
>
> Even if there is nothing explicitly nefarious about this relationship,
> it still means that Google will start to think like and see problems the
> same way as the CIA does. Google has become immensely powerful,
> transforming itself into a behemoth that dominates online communication,
> commerce, information gathering, entertainment and more. In previous
> articles in this series, I have detailed how Twitter has hired dozens of
> individuals from the FBI, how Facebook is awash with CIA agents, how
> NATO has gained a huge presence in TikTok’s upper ranks and how a
> hawkish war planner from the Atlantic Council was mysteriously appointed
> to become Reddit’s director of policy. But Google is different; you can
> ignore or choose not to use those other platforms. Google, on the other
> hand, is far too big to escape from.
>
> An inordinate amount of Google’s intelligence and security teams appear
> to come from the intelligence and security services. These include the
> following individuals:
>
> Deborah Wituski, who between 1999 and 2018, rose up the CIA’s
> ranks, becoming chief of staff to the director. She left the agency for
> Google, where she is now vice president of global intelligence.
>
> Chelsea Magnant also left the CIA for Google in 2018, leaving an
> 8-year career as a political analyst for a job as a global threat
> analyst for the tech giant.
>
> Yong Suk Lee spent 22 years at the CIA, leaving to take a position
> in global risk analysis and global security at Google. In May, he was
> promoted to become a director.
>
>
> Beth Schmierer worked as a strategic analyst for the CIA between
> 2006 and 2011. She then became a political officer at the State
> Department. She joined Google in January as a global threat analyst and
> is now an Americas intelligence manager for the company.
>
> Toni Hipp joined Google as a global threat team manager
> (intelligence) in 2017 and is now a global affairs and public policy
> manager in strategy and operations. Before joining Google, she spent
> nearly six years at the CIA as a foreign policy analyst.
>
> Jamie W. is the director of threat assessment for Google and the
> company’s former global intelligence manager. Before Google, she held a
> number of senior positions in the CIA, including chief of targeting for
> the near east region. Before her 13-year stint in the CIA, she also
> worked as an analyst for the FBI.
>
> Meaghan Gruppo worked as an intelligence analyst and public affairs
> officer at the CIA from 2008 until 2014. Since 2018, she has worked in
> security risk analysis and threat management for Google.
>
> Clinton Dallas’ LinkedIn profile notes that, until December, he was
> a CIA officer. In January of this year, he became a risk programs
> specialist at Google.
>
> The professional background of so many of its security and risk
> management staff may go a long way to explaining why Google seems
> focused on countering threats from official enemy states of the United
> States. The company’s Threat Analysis blog is full of published reports
> about state-backed efforts from Iran, North Korea, Russia and China to
> influence its platform. But it never seems to detect any nefarious
> activities from the U.S. government.
>
> This is despite the fact that the United States is carrying out the
> largest and most extensive attempt in history to manipulate the
> internet. A long exposé in Newsweek last year detailed how the Pentagon
> alone fields a clandestine army of at least 60,000 individuals whose job
> it is to ruthlessly run national security state propaganda campaigns
> online. Calling it “the largest undercover force the world has ever
> known.” The exposé explained that,
>
> ​These are the cutting-edge cyber fighters and intelligence
> collectors who assume false personas online, employing ‘nonattribution’
> and ‘misattribution’ techniques to hide the who and the where of their
> online presence while they search for high-value targets and collect
> what is called ‘publicly accessible information’—or even engage in
> campaigns to influence and manipulate social media.”
>
>
>
> Nicole Menkhoff. Menkhoff spent more than ten years as a weapons
> analyst at the CIA. In February 2015, she left the CIA for Google, where
> she was a senior human resources business partner and later became
> engineering chief of staff.
>
> Candice Bryant. Bryant spent nearly 17 years at the CIA, where she
> rose to become its chief of public communications. In September, she was
> headhunted from the CIA by Google to become its executive communications
> manager.
>
>
> Kyle Foster. Foster spent six years at the agency, then four more
> at the CIA’s venture capitalist wing, In-Q-Tel. He left In-Q-Tel in 2016
> for a job as a software engineer at Google.
>
> Joanna Gillia. Gillia was a leadership analyst at the CIA until
> 2014, the same year she took a job with Google. She worked in staffing
> until 2020.
>
> Katherine Tobin. Tobin was a CIA branch chief between 2014 and
> 2018. She is now head of workspace innovation for Google.
>
> Christine Lei. Lei left her job as an economic intelligence analyst
> for the CIA in 2015 for the post of executive compensation manager at
> Google, where she continues to work to this day.
>
> Justin Schuh. Schuh retired last year after 11 years as engineering
> director for Google Chrome. Before Google, however, he had a long career
> in national security, working as an intelligence analyst for the U.S.
> Marine Corps, a global network exploitation analyst for the NSA, and a
> technical operations officer for the CIA.
>
> Tom Franklin. Franklin worked as a program manager at the CIA
> between 2011 and 2013. Between 2015 and 2021, he was a product manager
> for Google.
>
> Katherine Pham. According to her LinkedIn profile, Pham did “some
> cool stuff” at the CIA in 2016. Since October, she has been a software
> engineer for Google.
>
>
>
> Corey Ponder. Ponder was a policy advisor for Google between 2019
> and 2021. Before that, he spent six years with the CIA.
>
> Thus, it is clear that former CIA personnel are deeply embedded within
> the Silicon Valley giant. Of course, Google is a huge company with
> thousands of employees. It could therefore be argued that it is
> unsurprising that some number of former national security state agents
> work for it, especially those who have the rare and highly developed
> skills necessary to preside over user privacy and safety. But this
> tolerance of spooks in the ranks is not applied evenly. This study could
> find no examples of former agents of the SVR, the SEBIN or the Ministry
> of Intelligence – the CIA’s Russian, Venezuelan or Iranian equivalents –
> working at Google. Indeed, the very idea seems absurd. Yet dozens of
> Google employees casually note on public websites that they worked for
> the CIA and appear to see that as entirely unproblematic.Therefore, this
> relationship is, at best inappropriate and, at worst, a U.S. government
> power play to control cyberspace. Google users frequently say they want
> more agency over their data. But the only agency they get is the Central
> Intelligence kind.
>
> Google: Nurtured by the CIA
>
> In their 2013 book, “The New Digital Age,” then Google CEO Eric Schmidt
> and Director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen wrote about how companies like
> theirs were fast becoming the U.S. empire’s most potent weapon in
> retaining Washington’s control over the modern world. As they said,
>
> Part of defending freedom of information and expression in the
> future will entail a new element of military aid. Training will include
> technical assistance and infrastructural support in lieu of tanks and
> tear gas—though the latter will probably remain part of the arrangement.
> What Lockheed Martin was to the twentieth century, technology and
> cyber-security companies will be to the twenty-first.”
>
> Their prediction has turned out to be accurate. But few people know that
> Google, from its very inception, was fundamentally intertwined with the
> CIA. As journalist Nafeez Ahmed’s investigation found, the CIA and the
> NSA were bankrolling Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin’s research –
> work that would later produce Google.
>
> Not only that, but, in Ahmed’s words, “senior U.S. intelligence
> representatives including a CIA official oversaw the evolution of Google
> in this pre-launch phase, all the way until the company was ready to be
> officially founded.” He concluded that,
>
> The United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and
> incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through
> control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was
> merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted
> by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’”
>
> As late as 2005, In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capitalist arm, was a major
> shareholder in Google. These shares were a result of Google’s
> acquisition of Keyhole, Inc., a CIA-backed surveillance firm whose
> software eventually became Google Earth. By 2007, Google was selling the
> government-enhanced versions of Google Earth that it was using for
> targeting in Iraq, as well as secret search engines that spy agencies
> were using for surveillance, according to The Washington Post. By this
> time, the Post also notes, Google was partnering with Lockheed Martin to
> produce futuristic technology for the military.
>
> In the 21st century, warfare is far more than just bullets and tanks.
> But Google’s attempts to feed from the trough of the military-industrial
> complex have proven controversial. In 2018, it faced an employee
> rebellion after securing Pentagon funding for a project designing lethal
> weaponry systems. That same year, the company dropped its longstanding
> motto, “don’t be evil.” Since then, it has also become a huge CIA
> contractor. In 2020, it secured part of a CIA cloud services contract
> reportedly worth “tens of billions of dollars.”
>
> Therefore, while the company, for the longest time, presented itself as
> a group of outsiders attempting to make the world a better place, from
> the very start, it has been closely connected with the halls of power.
> Indeed, in 2016, The Google Transparency Project identified at least 258
> examples of a “revolving door” between Google and various branches of
> the federal government as individuals moved from one to the other.
>
> Schmidt and Cohen are two of those individuals. Schmidt was chairman of
> both the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the
> Defense Innovation Advisory Board, bodies created to help Silicon Valley
> assist the U.S. military with cyberweapons. Meanwhile, Cohen left his
> high-powered job at the State Department to work for Google. Schmidt had
> served as an advisor (particularly on the Middle East) to both
> Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. He even
> participated in an unsuccessful 2009 regime change attempt in Iran,
> successfully pressuring Twitter to maintain services to the country
> during a U.S.-backed uprising aimed at toppling the government.
>
> While this article is not trying to claim any of the individuals named
> are nefarious CIA plants, the way in which Google and the CIA have
> worked so closely together raises national security questions for all
> other nations, especially those attempting to pursue foreign policies
> independent of the United States. Ultimately, the line between big tech
> and big brother has been blurred beyond recognition.
>
> Murray also warned that this hand-in-hand relationship also endangers
> individual freedoms, meaning that the Google/CIA connection should worry
> everybody. “All of this threatens individual rights to privacy, free
> speech, freedom of expression. Once they have your data, the U.S.
> government can use it against you at any time,” she told MintPress,
> “It’s really quite frightening.”


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