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NEW: As COVID-19 was rampaging through Southeast Asia the Pentagon ran an anti-vax psyop to scare Filipinos away from taking the China's Sinovac, the only inoculation available at the time. Very proud of this investigation with @Bing_Chris
Joel Schectman
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Joel Schectman
@joel_schectman
WSJ enterprise reporter - espionage, psyops, cyber. Into film, philosophy & astronomy. Ex-Reuters. Tell me your story. [email protected]/ DM me for signal.
Washington, D.C.
Joined September 2008
- We interviewed six Iranians who had worked with the CIA as spies and informants and got caught. A Reuters investigation found CIA negligence likely led to their capture.
- BOMBSHELL: The Pentagon helped spread UFO myths for a generation. When a new DoD investigation dug up the military’s role, the Air Force pushed for a coverup. With the mighty @aviswanatha
- SCOOP: Telegram will protect the identity of Hong Kong protesters from Chinese authorities
- Me and @Bing_Chris unmasked a team of ex-NSA spooks working as mercenaries for the UAE hacking journalists, dissidents and human rights activists. But even the mercenaries got spooked when they learned it was hacking Americans too.
- "Are you coming or should we come for you?" read the chilling message beneath @AlinejadMasih photo, captured from the phone of the man prosecutors says plotted to kidnap her on behalf of Iran.
- In Georgia no senator joins the objection to the certification after Loeffler backs down. She said she couldn’t object after the crazies stormed Congress
- Replying to @KateNoceraI used to say the heart wants what the heart wants. But now I’m like ‘well maybe the heart needs to chill tf out and take stock now and again’.
- Replying to @joel_schectmanUkraine doesn't have a dedicate military cyberwar unit, so MoD is reaching out for volunteers on Telegram, organizing the effort through Google docs.
- Replying to @joel_schectmanIt's easy to make fun of this initial effort. But after an invasion, resistance movements are often built on the fly, piecing together the volunteers, skills and materials needed to fight a larger force.
- Replying to @joel_schectman6/ CIA goes to "hell and back" to protect its high-level sources. But Reuters found that when it comes to lower-level informants like the guys we talked to- "non-registered sources"- CIA does little to protect them and often does nothing to help if they get caught.
- Replying to @joel_schectmanWe found the CIA uses the visa process in consulates/embassies to pressure Iranians into providing info. One source described being asked to come to the embassy in UAE for repeated visa interviews in which he was pressured for military data. Iran found out and he went to jail.
- NEW: Ukrainian cyber guerrilla resistance plans to attack Russian power grid, railways
