CIA, Social Media

Social Media Pose Riddle for CIA - WSJ.com: "The agency's social-media guidelines, described by the former official, allow even undercover officers to maintain Facebook accounts under their real names. "The rules had to catch up with the technology," the former official said. But there are limits. While officers can't post details of their work projects or travel, they may post personal notes on travel and photos, according to the ex-official. Officers were encouraged to use discretion to avoid compromising their agency status. Facebook friendships between undercover officers and people openly working for the CIA were discouraged, according to the former official. Among other things, such connections could be used to identify undercover agents, through link analysis. When the policy was issued, it led to a quandary for CIA officers, the ex-official said: Whether to defriend undercover officers. Doing so en masse could have had an unintended effect of alerting others to an undercover officer's status." (read more at link above)

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