The FBI and the CIA have been working on developing a website used for spies to share opinions and views much like Facebook and Myspace users do. The website, called A-Space, has been in testing for months and is highly anticipated by spies for the US. The website will be accessible to only intelligence personnel, so that spies may share important information on for example, a new video released by Bin Laden. By using this site it is hoped that communication between spies will become easier, and knowledge and ideas will be better known.
I think this is quite an interesting article really because I never really thought about how difficult it might be for the members CIA or the FBI to communicate analyzations on possible threats or issues for the country. This article was highly informational and made me think about how much of a benefit this will be to our agents in the future when it comes to having more ideas and thoughts expressed about situations. I think it's great that they are learning from social networking sites and are taking advantage of today's technology. Ironically enough, this article was on the internet as well.
The media's presentation was good, perhaps they took the idea a little less seriously because of it's similarities to myspace and facebook but they still got the story out and enough information about it for one to understand how this could benefit national intelligence agents.
Here's a link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/09/05/facebook.spies/index.html
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Great post, and what an interesting story! Do you think the media did a good job in the coverage of this topic?
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