CIA Tracks Public Information For The Private Eye -- NPRSecrets: the currency of spies around the world.
The rise of social media, hash-tags, forums, blogs and online news sites has revealed a new kind of secret — those hiding in plain sight. The CIA calls all this information "open source" material, and it's changing the way America's top spy agency does business.
NPR recently got a rare behind-the-scenes look at the CIA's Open Source Center. It operates on the down-low, though it deals with public material. We aren't allowed to tell you where the Open Source Center is. All we can say is that it's housed in an unmarked and unremarkable office building just off a nondescript, busy street.
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My Comment: It feels strange to know that the sources that I follow and read to fill this blog are probably the same sources that the CIA uses ... but at a larger scale.
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