Chicago Tribune Finds Hundreds of CIA Operatives Over The Internet

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With some spare time, Lexis-Nexus and a lot of research, the

John Crewdson from the Chicago Tribune

managed to compile a list of 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency phone numbers and secret CIA locations using commercial databases. Many of the 2,600 employees listed were "white" operatives -- as in operatives that work openly in the public. Unfortunately, several of the discovered employees are not undercover, as Crewdson contacted some for his article.

The official noted, however, that the CIA's credo has always been that "individuals are the first person responsible for their cover. If they can't keep their cover, then it's hard for anyone else to keep it. If someone filled out a credit report and put that down, that's just stupid."

Of course, considering how much information these databases contain about people who are supposed to be covering their identify, just imagine what lurks beneath for John Q Public. We've already run half a dozen stories or so about

Google accidentally indexing data

, and don't forget about the US government's

ADVISE program

to index as much unique data as possible.

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