Thousands of CIA operatives named online : General Discussion

The names of thousands of CIA personnel - including covert operatives - as well as internal phone numbers and the locations of two dozen secret installations can easily be found through Internet searches, it has emerged.



The Chicago Tribune obtained the names of more than 2,653 CIA operatives through online services that retrieve publicly available information for a fee.

Not all the identities the Chicago Tribune said it could reveal were supposed to be covert. But the paper said the CIA had acknowledged the partial list of names included covert employees.

The paper also discovered the identities of CIA agents assigned to American embassies in Europe. At the request of the agency, it did not publish the names.

Among the paper's other discoveries were two dozen CIA facilities in Chicago, northern Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state.

One of the facilities, a CIA training area dubbed "The Farm" at Camp Peary, Virginia, was a well-kept secret for decades. The agency refused to publicly acknowledge its existence, even after former CIA personnel confirmed its presence in the 1980s.

But the Chicago Tribune said a web search for the term "Camp Peary" produced data identifying the names and other details of 26 people who apparently work there.

"Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age," said Jennifer Dyck, a chief CIA spokesman. "There are things that worked previously that no longer work."

Wow.. internet is becoming very unsafe.. sux in a way!!!!!!!
um where u get this though?