Anonymous ID: d447e7 July 18, 2025, 10:14 a.m. No.23344243   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Did anyone ask WHY they were hired in the first place and WHO hired them?

 

US farm agency fires 70 foreign researchers following national security review

 

WASHINGTON, July 18 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it has fired 70 foreign contract researchers after a national security review intended to secure the U.S. food supply from adversaries including China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.

 

"USDA has completed a thorough review of individuals authorized to work on contracts with the department and identified approximately 70 individuals from countries of concern," a spokesperson said.

 

"The individuals working on these contracts from countries of concern will no longer be able to work on USDA projects."

 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-farm-agency-fires-70-foreign-researchers-following-national-security-review-2025-07-18/

Anonymous ID: d447e7 July 18, 2025, 10:53 a.m. No.23344375   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>23344334

Why did the CIA/NSA create cryptocurrency?

A very, very speculative piece on cryptocurrency and intelligence gathering.

 

A company is founded in the 1920s called AB Cryptotehnik in Sweden

The company founder dies and ownership shifts to an early investor by the name of Boris Hagelin

WWII starts

Boris Hagelin moves to the US, where he tries to find business for his enterprise

A contract for 140000 cipher machines is awarded to the company

He becomes friends with William F. Friedman, who in 1952 becomes chief cryptologist for the NSA

Boris Hagelin’s lawyer, Stuart Hedden, on the other hand, becomes deputy director for the CIA

The company is moved to neutral Switzerland mostly for tax reasons and renamed Crypto AG

The CIA outright buys Crypto AG in 1970 since Boris Hagelin is getting of age and the cooperation built is too valuable to cease.

In a Washington Post investingation of 2018, the connection is finally unveiled between Crypto AG and the CIA

 

https://medium.com/@sertys/why-did-the-cia-nsa-create-cryptocurrency-22ae8129ff35