“The debate over how much the government should know about our private lives has never been more heated. Should intelligence agencies be able to sweep our email, read our texts, track our phone calls, locate us by GPS? Much of the conversation swirls around the possibility that agencies like the N.S.A. or the F.B.I. will use such information not to serve national security but to carry out personal and political vendettas. King’s experience reminds us that these are far from idle fears, conjured in the fevered minds of civil libertarians. They are based in the hard facts of history.”
Beverly Gage
History Professor at Yale
January 15 2024 — On November 21 1964, a letter — and a tape recording allegedly of King’s sexual indiscretions — was delivered to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The author appears to suggest that King should commit suicide or else… Although the letter was anonymously written, King suspected the FBI had sent the package He was not wrong. Today, I will raise an obvious question: Is the CIA behind the infamous PORNHUB website? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
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Americans’ positive attitudes toward the FBI are on a long-term decline. According to the latest NBC News poll, 37% of registered voters surveyed said they have a positive view of the FBI, while 35% said they have a negative view.
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Dr. Martin Luther King
The FBI Suicide Letter
“There is only one thing left for you to do,” the author warns vaguely in the final paragraph. “You know what it is.”
“King was certain the letter had come from the F.B.I. Its infamous director, J. Edgar Hoover, made no secret of his desire to see King discredited.
A little more than a decade later, the Senate’s Church Committee on intelligence overreach confirmed King’s suspicion.” [NYT]
Former F.B.I. director James Comey kept a copy of the King wiretap request on his desk as a reminder of the bureau’s capacity to do wrong. It is hard to miss the irony.
Hoover’s ‘Suicide Letter’ To MLK
Historian Beverly Gage uncovered an “anonymous” FBI letter to Martin Luther King Jr. telling him to “kill himself.”
Is Pornhub a Tool of the CIA? — You don’t need to wear a tinfoil hat to believe that the CIA is using Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other social media to spy on people.
That’s because the CIA publishes a helpful list of press releases on all the social media ventures it sponsors, via its technology investment arm In-Q-Tel. [Social Media Is a Tool of the CIA. Seriously — CBS News]
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In the summer 2007, I provided irrefutable evidence that the CIA as well as other Intelligence Agencies were editing sensitive information on Wikipedia.
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Today, I will raise an obvious question: Is the CIA behind the infamous Pornhub website?
Pornhub is one of the most popular website in the world (Alexa Rank 44 in 2020). Just in case you do not know, Pornhub is a pornographic video sharing and pornography website.
“In 2019 there were over 42 Billion visits to Pornhub, which means there was an average of 115 million visits per day. (…)
This year must have been an adventurous one because there were over 39 billion searches performed, which is 8.7 billion more searches than last year.
Celebrities, trending terms, and characters – if you can think it, it’s probably been searched for.” [The 2019 Year in Review]
Pornhub regularly releases information extracted from its archive of searches. Every year it publishes a Year In Review. The quality of this information is simply stunning.
Of course, we know that the CIA and the NSA have regularly employed pornography as a tool in covert operations. Here are a few examples.
In the 1950s, the CIA set up a fake brothel in San Francisco to carry out mind-control experiments.
In the 1960s, the CIA commissioned a phoney pornographic tape of Indonesian president Sukarno called Happy Days.
“According to a document in the CREST database a CIA asset found a man who resembled Sukarno and paid for plastic surgery to ‘heighten the resemblance.’
The man was then filmed and photographed in a variety of compromising circumstances with a bevy of young women.”
More recently, during the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA’s Iraq Operations group plotted to create a fake gay sex tape featuring a Saddam Hussein lookalike with the intent of “flooding Iraq with the videos” to undermine the then Iraqi leader in the eyes of his supporters.
Today, the use of pornography as a tool of US Intelligence is so widespread that the Central Intelligence Agency has a squad of psychiatrists and therapists to help his employees tasked with the job of watching pornographic material cope with their job.
— The FBI spied on Martin Luther King Jr. in an unsuccessful effort to prove he had ties to Communist organizations.
In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy granted an FBI request to surreptitiously record King and his associates by tapping their phones and placing hidden microphones in their homes, hotel rooms and offices. A 1977 court order sealed transcripts of the surveillance tapes for 50 years.
Intel Today would like to know what you think. Do you believe that the CIA is behind Pornhub? The question does not necessarily imply that the CIA actually owns Pornhub the way it used to own Crypto AG for about half a century.
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REFERENCES
FBI–King suicide letter — Wikipedia
Pornhub’s Premium goes free worldwide to cure your lockdown blues — The Next Web
How the NSA and CIA Use Porn for Black Ops — Sputnik News
The NSA Has Its Own Special Room for Watching Hardcore Porn — eTeknix
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