The United States has got the code it's going to launch.

It's a unit system.

I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park.

It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

The Central Intelligence Agency.

Since its inception during the Cold War days, it's taken on the mystique as the silent hand of the U.S. government.

It's been entwined in controversies, ranging from the Phoenix program during the Vietnam War to Watergate

and War on Terror Torture. Then in 2014, it got a Twitter account.

The CIA has joined Twitter, but the spy agency showed a covert sense of humor, tweeting,

we can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet. Since, the CIA has been undergoing

some kind of public rebranding.

But why does an intelligence agency that's whole existence is based on how good at being

secret it is need a public presence?

Motherboard reporter Edward Anguaso is on the show to talk spies and tweets with me.

I'm Ben Maku and this is cyber. And yes, I'm still recording in a closet in my apartment.

Okay, so for the uninitiated, the CIA and the various other intelligence agencies of the United States have actual Twitter

presences. And in fact, I remember Ed when I was reporting for Motherboard in 2014, the summer

of 2014, the CIA announced its presence on Twitter, and it literally said, which is, this is so lame.

They said we can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweets.

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