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In a modest brick building in the Industrial Park, Virginia, unknown, relay and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) up to five million messages per day through Twitter, but is working on trying to monitor everything published through open sources of information.
In the center of "open source" of the Agency, a team known as the "librarians revanchist" to monitor what is being published through the Facebook social and newspapers and news channels of television and local radio stations, and Internet chat rooms, but everything on the Internet anyone can access and contribute to the public.
And often analysts collect information from the message twitter angry into the post-studied languages that are written by either Arabic or Chinese or other, and they verified the information that they find it by comparing it to what is stated on them in the local newspapers or in telephone calls that are tapping them.
On this basis, draw a clearer picture of a particular case provides the highest levels in the White House, which authorizes the officials from the glimpse on this issue during its evolution in real time, for example, configure a quick idea about the mood of the region after the raid that killed the U.S. Special Forces Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden or perhaps predict the Middle East country, which seems more than any other candidate of the revolution.
Change the rules of the gameIn this context stresses the Center Director, Doug Nakin, in a recent interview with The Associated Press, U.S. officials have already predicted a revolution in Egypt, but they did not know exactly when it will be.
He adds, in that interview - which officials said the CIA is the first time accepted the position where a press visit him - that the center has already predicted that "the social networks in places such as Egypt that could change the rules of the game and threaten the system."
This was the establishment of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has developed in response to the recommendation of the Commission of Inquiry into the events of 11 September / September 2001, and assigned them, are concerned primarily focus on fighting terrorism and counter proliferation.
But hundreds of analysts working place - the actual number of series - watching a wide range of issues from the network of the Internet in China to the mood in the street.
While the majority of these analysts are stationed in Virginia, the numbers of them scattered all U.S. embassies across the world to reach out more than a pulse of their subjects.
The analyst describes Nakin successful that - in most cases - eccentric and unstable, and an expert on piracy computer (hacker) "knows how to find things that others did not imagine that it exists already."
He adds that those with a master's degree in library science and speak multiple languages, especially those who grew up speaking another language represented "the officers are strong in open source."
The center began to focus on social media to be made after watching Twitter during the green revolution witnessed by Iran in 2009, when thousands protested the results of the elections that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power again.
Valvarsah - by Nakin - at that time was the third most-language presence in blogs and social media on the Internet.
Brief intelligence
Analysis and end up at the center of U.S. President Barack Obama, as a part of theintelligence briefing, which provides him almost daily.
After the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in the month of May /May, followed by the CIA messages, Twitter to give White House quick idea of world public opinion, and show for example that the majority of messages in Urdu, Chinese, were negative, and protested against Pakistani officials on the raid, and considered it an insult to the rule their country.
When Obama gave his speech on the issues of the Middle East a few weeks after the raidwere messages Twitter, over the next 24 negative on a large scale in both Turkey and Egypt, Yemen, Algeria and the Persian Gulf, where he accused the speakers in Arabicand Turkish Obama of siding with Israel, while accusing the Israelis, their messages inHebrew, of siding with the Arabs, and after a few days, it was the mainstream media to confirm the same result.
Nakin say that as a person known to the public, because he is the director of the center,but the location of a secret place to prevent exposure to attacks, whether physical or electronic.
Source: Associated Press