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Twitter Announces ‘Collaboration’ With AP, Reuters To ‘Identify And Elevate Credible Information,’ Despite Ties To US Intelligence

On August 2, Twitter announced a new “collaboration” with Associated Press and Reuters to “identify and elevate credible information,” despite Reuters’ connections to the US Intelligence Community.

Twitter has announced that they will be collaborating with AP and Reuters to “identify and elevate credible information,” according to a post on August 2. “We are committed to making sure that when people come to Twitter to see what’s happening, they are able to easily find reliable information. Twitter will be able to expand the scale and increase the speed of our efforts to provide timely, authoritative context across the wide range of global topics and conversations that happen on Twitter every day,” the statement reads.

“When large or rapidly growing conversations happen on Twitter that may be noteworthy, controversial, sensitive, or may contain potentially misleading information, Twitter’s Curation team sources and elevates relevant context from reliable sources,” the statement continues. In response to the announcement, one Twitter user pointed out that the Senior Director of Reuters, Dawn Scalici, who served 33 years in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is tasked with “advancing Thomson Reuters’ ability to meet the disparate needs of the U.S. Government.”

Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Ms. Scalici served 33 years with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In her last federal assignment, she served as the National Intelligence Manager for the Western Hemisphere within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In this role, she was responsible for overseeing national intelligence for an area of responsibility spanning from the Arctic to the tip of South America, including the US Homeland.

“Twitter is becoming the propaganda arm of the of US State Dept,” tweeted one user.

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “Behavioral Modification” Collection

The below archive is connected with YEARS worth or research in connection with the MKULTRA CIA Collection.  After years of having a 4 CD-ROM set archived, one researcher by the name of Oscar Diggs, went through and painstakingly put together a list of “missing” documents that were said to be on the CD’s, but were not.

I was given this list by Mr. Diggs in 2016. That began a near 3 year struggle with the CIA just to prove that list was accurate, let alone, getting a copy of the missing pages. Through the course of months that stretched to years, it ultimately took a 97 page fax to the CIA, with an index of every single file on the CD’s, to prove what I was asking for. The CIA had claimed they would give me the documents for FREE, since I already paid for the MKULTRA/Mind Control collection, and was told those documents were on the CD’s.

After proving it — the CIA’s story changed. They then said they were not clear, and the documents I asked for were NOT on the CD’s, and I had to pay for them. When I asked why, they said they were not on “mind control” or “MKULTRA”, but rather, were about “Behavioral Modification.”  I was denied a fee waiver, and was told that I would need to purchase 4,358 pages of documents, which comprised what I had asked for of the “missing” document numbers.

Through the graciousness of the internet, I was able to secure the money, and I wrote the check. After two months of waiting, my check was returned, and the CIA said by letter that the 4,358 was actually 2,316. With this letter, was 800 pages of MKULTRA material that I was never given on the CD’s. Therefore, it appeared, that I was actually correct pushing for records, but for more than two years, the CIA would not believe me.

My check was returned, and the CIA said if I was still interested in the 2,316 remaining pages, that I had to cut a new, lesser amount, check, as if I would lose interest somehow. Of course, I cut the new check, but what happened to the page count? How did so many pages disappear and vanish?  This all means that at least 1,245 pages of MKULTRA / Mind Control / Behavioral Modification documents just vanished from their original quote to me. What I can’t deduce from the CIA’s letter is if these 797 pages released were a part of that original quote, so the number of missing pages could be closer to 2,000!

Regardless of what the answer is, I finally got the remaining documents. As I know they are all digitized CIA, and I requested they be given electronically, the CIA ignored that request and printed out the thousands of pages that you will find linked below. So, I had to sit down, remove the staples and alligator clips, and begin scanning. Once completed, I went through each document and offered a date (if readable/available) file size, and a brief description. This is not meant to be a “complete” index, as the documents many times go into greater detail than my brief description. But, I do hope it offers a starting point.

Additional Note: The CIA claimed the remaining 2,316 pages were NOT related to MKULTRA, which is why I had to pay for them. However, document C00017440, was 821 pages entirely on MKULTRA. That consists of more than $80 of the fees I had to pay! Although possibly an oversight, this was the absolute icing on the frustration cake that has endured for years. 

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U.S. Intelligence Coverup? Newly Declassified FBI File on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain Compounds Evidence Implicating his Wife’s Role in his Murder

The grisly death of mega rock star Kurt Cobain in 1994 (by a shotgun blast to his head) was officially ruled a suicide by the Seattle police, but evidence quickly came to light that Cobain had actually been murdered.

However, despite serious holes in the official narrative about Cobain’s death, the verdict of suicide has held firm for 27 years.

On May 7, the FBI quietly and without fanfare declassified 10 pages of never-before-seen documents relating to Cobain’s death, which alongside a mass of accumulated evidence suggest that the agency had purposely avoided looking into the radical activist musician’s death. One potential explanation for this failure could be due to the CIA’s involvement in the murder.

The latter seems plausible given the connections to the CIA of Courtney Love, Cobain’s former wife, who is the top suspect in the murder. Love happened to be a drug distributor during the same time that the CIA was heavily involved in trafficking opium and using drugs as political weapons. The latter links call for deeper scrutiny.

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ABOUT 100 CIA OFFICERS AND FAMILY HAVE BEEN SICKENED BY HAVANA SYNDROME

About 100 CIA officers and family members are among about 200 US officials and kin sickened by “Havana syndrome”, the CIA director, William Burns, said on Thursday, referring to the mysterious set of ailments that include migraines and dizziness.

Burns, tapped by Joe Biden as the first career diplomat to serve as CIA chief, said in a National Public Radio interview that he had bolstered his agency’s efforts to determine the cause of the syndrome and what is responsible.

He confirmed that among other steps, he had tapped a senior officer who once led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head a taskforce investigating the syndrome, and said he had tripled the size of the medical team involved in the investigation.

The agency also had shortened from eight weeks to two weeks the time that CIA-affiliated people must wait for admission to Walter Reed national military medical center, he said.

“It’s a profound obligation, I think, of any leader to take care of your people and that is what I am determined to do,” Burns told NPR in his first interview since becoming CIA director in March.

Havana syndrome, with symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, migraines and memory lapses, is so named because it first was reported by US officials based in the US embassy in Cuba in 2016.

Burns noted that a US National Academy of Sciences panel in December found that a plausible theory was that “directed energy” beams caused the syndrome.

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