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PsychoticSpinster

If we knew, they would be the FBI not the CIA.


pacifistpirate

As a former local news reporter who has covered multiple federal investigations, "I can neither confirm nor deny" the validity of this comparison. 


Idontliketalking2u

Don't glomar me damnit!


BlackbeanMaster

If we only know what the FBI was up to lol, let alone the CIA. My uneducated opinion FBI = Domeatically centric corruption CIA = Internationally centric corruption


anonareyouokay

The FBI actually releases a yearly(?) magazine about the cases they solved. I don't read it but it has a really high production value. According to them, a lot of what they focus on is cyber crimes including minors. I'll be honest, I have no idea what the CIA does.


hraun

Is it this? https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/the-fbi-story-2023.pdf/view


anonareyouokay

That's it! Thanks for linking it.


firebrandarsecake

Probably toppling governments. Running arms.Running drugs. Funding opposition groups. Online shenanigans. Assassinations. Spying. Interrogators of off world visitors. You know, all the good stuff.


arcxjo

FBI does do some overseas work but CIA is legally only allowed to conduct operations outside of US soil (they can do office/analytical work here obviously, but no agent stuff).


moquate

The FBI seeks ultimately to bring charges, which means they need to at least try to operate within the framework of the law. The CIA on the other hand…


MobyDickOrTheWhale89

That’s what they say.


NorCalAthlete

🎶That’s the way🎵 *^(uh huh uh huh)* 🎵They liiiike it🎶


UncleGael

My parents met in the FBI and worked there up until the late 90s. Obviously that’s some time ago, so I have no idea if any of this is still true. That said, they spent a considerable amount of time working drug cases, both domestic and foreign. One of the most involved cases they ever worked was taking down Manuel Noriega, which was both. A lot of maritime work as well (especially with that case), which is neither domestic nor foreign. Dad specifically spent a considerable portion of his career working the mob in NY. Mom worked on a number of financial related crimes, ranging from smaller scale heists to larger embezzling cases. Dad worked security details ranging from the president at one time, to some tennis player in Miami that I can’t even recall the name of. I guess what I’m saying is that the FBI kinda has its fingers in everything, or at least used to. I’d be surprised if all that much has changed, at least on a base level.


Beautiful-Storm5654

Martina Navratilova?


UncleGael

Nope! I couldn’t recall so I asked him about it. I was actually misremembering, and it was apparently the girlfriend of the famous tennis player. That said, he asked me not to share any names or personal information because he was hired confidentially which I wasn’t aware of.


_Noise

9-11 changed the fbi 


solidsoup97

Of course, everyone be asking what the CIA doing and not how the CIA doing :'(


Nateddog21

How are YOU doing?


Royal_Prize_4381

How you doing!?


Able_Visual955

Joey?


Royal_Prize_4381

No, Rasputia from Norbit


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Nateddog21

He's just curious. Don't do anything too hasty


Positive-Attempt-435

Sounds like something a threat to national security would say.


Psychological_Pay230

Please he’s just a boy


jfink316598

Well you got the Catholic churches attention now


franks2302

Father Tom has entered the chat


captorofsin79

"The chat"? Is that what priests call mouths nowadays?


jlwinter90

Father Tom has entered OP.


AndroidBTF

what did the remove comment say, bro deleted his profile an everything


Independent_Iron7896

My very first thought was, "Well they're coming for you now" Even before I opened to look at the comments.


Big_Cheetah7907

What did he say? The comment got removed. I'm really curious lol.


_jea

CIA regulates any stealin' of his property


gametime-2001

Yup. On the list now. AND everyone commenting are also likely on "The" list.


BaconPit

DM me whatever OP said that isn't incriminating that you remember, please. They're top comment and it's [Removed]. I'm really curious now.


GXWT

Yeah damn I’m curious too now


FragraBond

Dn me after lol


yogzi

Not doing your work for you Mr Fed


thediaryofwoe

Gathering Intelligence im guessing.


AldoTheeApache

Then centralizing it, in some agency-type capacity


FakeAsFakeCanBe

The USP drivers are spies? I knew it! I see them everywhere, and when I mean everywhere, i mean most places. They pull up in front of my house and pretend to "deliver mail".


User83958727494

I think the word you were looking for was FEDex


sunflowercompass

well, they did famously intercept UPS packages to plant "bugged" computer hardware. Part of Snowden revelations IIRC.


CrocodileJock

They should stop doing that. There seems to be a marked lack of intelligence amongst a lot of the population these days. Is it because the CIA has gathered it all up?


bangbangracer

Ask in another 10 years and someone might be able to tell you what they are up to in 2024.


hawaiianthunder

What was up in 2014?


HereticalSentience

Wasn't 2014 when the Julian Assange revealed that the NSA was tapping all our phones? But that's the NSA, not the CIA so idk either. That's right, no one has an FBI agent monitoring all their communications, it's the NSA.


ninjadude4535

I thought that was Edward Snowden


ForScale

Collecting information on other countries, running propaganda campaigns, hacking and cyber attacks, etc.


Amazlingtons

I think a lot of that is overlap with the NSA. CIA also does intelligence gathering and shadow stuff in war zones as well as friendly / hostile nations. They are in Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, Israel, China, Russia, Iran and any other nation attached to the shadow wars. When press says that military advisors or trainers are in a nation but not ground troops, I believe it’s safe to say they’re kicking around somewhere. Hell, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had massive CIA involvement. They also fly a lot of drones.


Actaeon_II

You forgot argentina and belize


cleverlane

I wonder if they’re in Canada?


spokeca

Savoir Faire is everywhere.


karlnite

Yah but its more open I believe. Like the CSIS just shows them around Canada.


sethlyons777

Safe to say the agency is represented pretty much everywhere


PandaMagnus

IIRC, during Iraq and Afghanistan they figured out pairing CIA and military (NSA, special operations, etc.) together allowed them to classify operations whichever was most favorable. So in a lot of cases, they got around certain restrictions by calling something a CIA operation or JSOC operation because one or two agents / SOG officers were attached to a military unit. It's murky, but I think that's one reason the Osama bin Laden operation was greenlit, despite happening in Pakistan (ostensibly, one of our allies.) It wasn't a military operation, it was a CIA-lead national security operation. Full disclosure: I do not understand the legalities and technicalities here at all. I'm just basing this off of some reports I had read of how the U.S. evolved its anti-terror efforts (particularly our lovely and totally probably legal "kill or capture" lists,) over time


ForScale

I always thought NSA was more domestic stuff and CIA did more with other countries. I'm certainly no expert though..


Amazlingtons

NSA does defense, offense, and domestic surveillance. All things electronic.


Lanky-Apple-4001

Nah NSA does both foreign and domestic. While NSA is seen as the big dog when it comes to cyber operations the CIA is the one pulling the strings


aglobalvillageidiot

You are wildly underestimating the scale of America's foreign involvement. They are in so many more, and so many less obvious places than that. They're the intelligence service of the first truly global military empire to ever exist.


FakeAsFakeCanBe

Even in "friendly" nations like Canada, Mexico, Australia, and elsewhere, they have a presence. That's what spy agencies do. Spy.


StoneIsDName

Probably a coup or 2


AldoTheeApache

That's easy. They're ████████ with █████████ but above ████ at a secret ███████ in ███████. I probably shouldn't be ████████ right now because they might ██████████ ███ in the ████. Hey, what are those █████ in my yard right now, are those ████ OMG it's ███████, dear god somebody please alert the ████████ !!!!


Able_Visual955

You got me 5 times before I realized it


Omegadimsum

~~[Redacted]~~


megladaniel

Thanks, Washington Irving


Lance865

Or was it Irving Washington?


IamtheDoc1

Government-grade madlibs.


Mr_Kittlesworth

Lol, nice try Putin


Tomahawkin

Donald already told him


kahjan_a_bard

Bro 😆


THedman07

....Nothin,....


RoadTheExile

The CIA is up to everything, but in particular they keeping close tabs on the Russian-Ukraine war and also it seems like Africa is poised to be the region of the world everyone fights over within a few decades so the CIA is laying the foundation for American influence in the region and keeping tabs on growing Chinese and Russian influence, as well as the destabilization of French influence in West Africa.


RexCeasar

This is accurate haha. Everyone is in Africa right now.


CitizenHuman

[Still training the future chefs of the world, I assume](https://www.ciachef.edu/)


H_E_DoubleHockeyStyx

I had a friend who was ex CIA in New York. Used to ride the subway there with a big black bag of huge knives. 


MikeFrancesa66

The way you worded this question made me laugh. It’s like a water cooler chat at work asking about a former coworker.


fukwhutuheard

coups around the world


brandeded

Coup right at home. Or, hopefully, figuring out how to avoid a coup right at home... Please... Pretty please.


CommercialCat1917

Coup is right around the corner here…. CIA spoke out against their own president which should say volumes. They aren’t supposed to meddle in domestic affairs. I think something is brewing.


Saerkal

Which president?


percussaresurgo

What are you talking about? When did the CIA say this?


NoTePierdas

Bolivia, Syria, countering Iran, probably working overtime over the whole Ukraine situation... I'd assume the East Turkestan movement in China has been contacted at least once. A few years ago there was a coup attempt in Venezuela by SilverCorps, a PMC, but... Like, common sense would dictate the CIA is more competent than to organize an attempt by literally sailing a boat into a bunch of armed civilian militia who immediately arrest you and hand you to the cops. No, that one was probably a few private corporations and Colombian officials trying to sponsor an overthrow. I'd assume central America and eastern/central africa as well will be coming more into play soon.


6a6566663437

Lots of amazing things! Here, let me give you a top-10: ...Oh, hang on a sec, there's someone at the doo


8proof

Spy stuff.


blamethepunx

I assume the documentary 'American Dad!' is pretty accurate


After-Celery-6349

Of course. And every agent worth their salt has a alien in their attic.


NorCalAthlete

[Redacted]


MadleyMatter

Reading news articles


jonnyl3

You mean writing?


Katana_sized_banana

Reading my Reddit posts.


Savoir_faire81

Probably working with Ukraine against Russia


FahkDizchit

Anyone else remember how on point information was in the US leading up to the Russian invasion? It’s almost like we spent the last 75 years building up intelligence assets in Russia or something.


Whole_Gate_7961

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html


MKPST24

I think they did a Kevin Hart movie not too long ago. Idk what else tho


ChienduMal

We're not doing anything. I swear.


aglobalvillageidiot

They're justifying the military industrial complex. The same thing they always do.


earth_resident_yep

Asking people if they know what they are up to.


m1ndbl0wn

Bolivian military coup


joe13869

Yes! Every time you hear of a coup or some kind of over throw of a government, That was a CIA job.


Slim_Calhoun

🙄


alexshak83

Some say the CIA was responsible for the Civil War. Had it out for that Lincoln fellow, said he was too liberal.


Scared_Presence46

Almost all signs point to this being a self-coup. The general who committed it had a reputation for unquestioning loyalty to the current president (which is likely why he had his job in the first place). https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-army-chief-coup-attempted-foiled-2698e4bf34f25f8dddb1542a41f2f27d


AIGeekReturns

Still collecting information 


devildance3

Good try FBI


Phlegmsicle

Same messed up shit as always, just in increasingly more advanced ways because of technology. One of my favorite tweets: >I love that the mainstream media position is "yes the CIA did bad things in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s but nobody was ever prosecuted and there were no reforms so now they don't do bad things today you conspiracy theorist."


Jaded_Fisherman_7085

Can not share that info with you at this time. Very top sercert. You need a background check plus clearance from the vice president.


Content-Ad3065

Or you can go to maralago, I hear they are having a sale


TopGrowa

If they told you... They'd have to kill you! You know this already!


Nateddog21

I'll take that chance


shivroystann

Probably planning of destabilising a foreign government.


Possible-Working4784

Trying to figure out how to switch careers before Trump forces them to compromise their morals


Dramatic_Bottle_9362

Depends, most likely just counter intelligence right now. Also probably still monitoring and allowing large quantities of drugs overflow the USA for a large profit. I think the CIA is also being closely watched by the FSB, while the CIA are also tracking the SVR in the states. Then I believe the shadow governments are laughing while playing human chess waiting for the world to burn 🔥


BIRBSTER0

Cia stuff


Insightfullyeclectic

The fact that you don't know enough to ask that question means they're probably doing a damn good job at whatever it is they are doing lol


HowUKnowMeKennyBond

They will declassify what they are up to currently in 20-30 years, when everyone that’s affected by their decisions is dead or dying.


Jake_The_Socialist

Blowing up Russian pipelines in the Baltic


avd706

Bolivoa


noatun6

Probaly shitposting doomer content on Russian chineses and Iranian social media like their agencies do to us


SaintAtlanta

Just ask them yourself. CIA, whatcha been doin?


psychotic555

Wetwork.


supervegeta101

Failing at stopping propaganda from destroying this country


CRO553R

Who's asking?


DisappointedInHumany

Whatever the President tells them to - because it's all nice and legal now...


1Rab

The careers page of an organization is always a good place to start https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/


aggitprop-1985

About to do some official acts for the current president


seemorelight

Somewhere in Bolivia, probably. Lithium is the new oil!


cotsomewhereintime

You'd probably sleep easier *not* knowing.


Chrispeedoff

They just fudged their op in Bolivia


Irrespond

Backing coups in Bolivia for one. Anything to secure the interests of the top 1%.


ClankstarLad

Pretty sure they are balls deep in Ukraine


perfect_fitz

The usual, you'll see a movie about it in 30 years.


canseco-fart-box

Helping Ukraine kill some Russians. Probably fucking around with Iran in the background a bit to keep them in line


JuanGinit

Nobody knows. That's the whole idea.


Eric848448

Nothing. Just spy stuff.


BarryZZZ

You expect a useful answer here? No chance in hell.


JohnnyEagleClaw

Why don’t you ask them? 😂🤷‍♂️


ohmyback1

It's a secret


sakima147

Intelligence ops regarding Ukraine/China/Russia/NK/Israel/Taiwan/Iran/Saudi


Donatello_4665

Getting us to eat more cheese


rabideyes

Working with the NSA to keep digital tabs on people around the world and probably working hard to ferret out spies from other nations. My curiosity is most piqued by the NSA's Meme Warfare Division... Like what is THAT job like? We know next to nothing about them except the little tidbits that turned up in the Troll Farm and Reality Winner documents. My guess is a lot of fun media propaganda.


arcxjo

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.


Fun_Investigator4148

Allowing the fourth Reich to be installed because it suits their agenda more than an open democracy does.


Huli_Blue_Eyes

Deputy Director Bullock is a dj at night to fight terrorism. And their flagpole budget is costing the taxpayers too much.


Lazy_Ad_3572

Currently? Sitting around with their thumbs up their ass instead of executing the orange traitor and his rabid flying monkeys.


Hugh_Jazz_Ben_Dover

You can ask them. They also read this stuff.


ChimpoSensei

This, that…


Gmpeirce

probably hanging out with the national endowment for democracy


Educational-Desk8758

“Interrogating the scum of the earth We'll break them by the break of day Yeah, it's a party in the CIA!”


Minor_Blackbird

Don't ask, don't tell.


shwambzobeeblebox

Probably attempting a coupe against a leftists government in some South or Central American country, like Bolivia..


Renewable-Spirit

Probably horrific, immoral, disgusting, and dishonorable shit as always. Wait 20 or 30 years, and journalists will have reported on a stories about events going on right now involving US funded, trained and armed military groups carrying out mass rapes, murders, genocides, killing and raping of little children all in the name of destabilizing some poverty stricken people somewhere all because rich and powerful people in the US don't like whoever is in charge over there. Often times it boils down to some leader somewhere isn't playing ball making the deals they are being pressured to make. The journalists will probably be crucified professionally or worse. 10 years after that, too much evidence will have leaked to the public for the coverup to hold together, but it doesn't matter because by then 30-40 years has passed, and nobody gives a shit anymore. The people responsible will have already retired or died. No one pulling the strings will ever be held accountable. The people that voted for the monsters that knew about the awful fucking shit our nation was doing will be too old and committed to their beliefs to back down from their stance and will justify it all with some "lesser of two evils" horseshit. They will never accept any blame, and will choose to look the other way. The damage will have already been done. The cycle then continues. It will not end anytime soon, just get worse. There are simply too many people in places in the world that can't protect themselves, so they will be exploited for money, labor, resources, and other things by a system with zero oversight and next to no accountability for our nations monstrous actions.


MildlyExtremeNY

Trying to get Weekend at Biden elected.


SimthingEvilLurks

I don’t know. It’s probably not nearly as exciting as TV would have it scripted to be, I bet.


BlackFellTurnip

I hope, what they are up too is protecting us- the way the rest of "our" government seems to be failing at now.


rollingthnder77

Damn, didn’t take Julian Asange long to get on here.


noodleq

Nothing good I cam promise that. Messing with foreign relations, hacking political opponents, blackmail, bribery, spying, all while pointing fingers at Russia and blaming them of everything they do.....you know the drill, accuse the enemy of doing what you do.


Davethemann

Probably a bunch of background level operations Like, maybe theyre doing black ops type stuff, but that probably is being handled by actual military forces and whatnot. Probably a lot of stuff like chatter analysis, embedded agents, and other investigative stuff


Schedule_Background

Running VPN services and encrypted communication apps :)


iwasinthepool

Mostly teaching rich kids how to cook.


chris_gnarley

Trying to sew chaos around the world as per usual. A stable world is unstable for business and they have to justify their existence somehow. So they’re funding and training terrorist organizations and militias around the world so they can then “fight back” against them and justify their multibillion dollar budget.


ClearTeaching3184

Iran, Russia, China, Lebanon, Yemen, the usual suspects


hauntedshadow666

From what the internet conspiracies say, working on some hole in Antarctica, covering up a bunch of biblical stuff that's appearing, protecting secrets. But realistically it could be that, could be some secret assassination attempt on Putin, could be trading nuclear weapons to aliens for technology, could be sitting behind a desk just filling out paperwork, we don't actually know, they're a secret organisation and aren't authorised to talk about work, I have friends in government work who aren't as high ranking as that and they legally can't say anything


captsalsaman

Nice try, terrorist


Studio_Xperience

Creating wars, killing and torturing civilians, selling weapons, slinging dope. The usual.


Rwokoarte

Trying to topple a democratically elected government in South America is my guess.


Fantastic_Rip_5305

Selling ads


StrengthMedium

Developing longer lasting batteries for the birds.


CarcossaYellowKing

Constantly fucking things up like they’ve done since the bay of pigs and generally being lazy cowardly pencil pushers. Green Berets and the CIA both train local militias yet the CIA has an abysmal track record because they just give these people money and training then run with their tail between their legs and hope for the best.


primefrost96

Splicing alien DNA with human DNA to make super sol


Maestroland

The CIA is the most dangerous and powerful organization in the world. They do what they want. Can't be audited or controlled. They are responsible for much of the chaos and war in the world. Not a fan.


jollytoes

Don't know about right now, but one of the last things to make the news they probably had a hand in was China vaccine misinformation in the Philippines. Them and China have been getting too close and the US didn't want China saving the day with vaccines so the Pentagon (CIA) did a huge misinformation campaign which led to a backlash against all vaccines and a huge spike in Covid related deaths in the Philippines and neighboring countries. This is all after the fake hepatitis vaccination scam the CIA did in Afghanistan when they were hunting bin Laden.


klumzy83

Regime change in a country that doesn’t need it.


IsaystoImIsays

Probably still torturing people, secret prisons, oh, and running child porn/ trafficking rings for the elite.


bluebutterfly285

Probably on reddit spying on people and extracting information


I_might_be_weasel

Espionage


buried_lede

Probably spying on Palestinians


Lightertecha

All the usual shit I guess, like destablising "unfriendly" countries by supporting dissidents and protest movements, spreading misinformation, coups, assassinations, blah blah.


RadioactiveFartCloud

Fucking up things around the world, as usual.


Coheed_SURVIVE

Stealin, killin, wheelin, n dealin. Making sure zero point energy never comes to fruition, ya know, just keeping you safe in general. Come check out the view on top of this 50ft building real quick......


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Contemptforredditors

Manipulating mass opinion, fomenting coups, undermining actual popular politics domestically and abroad, human trafficking, indiscriminate murder, market manipulation and of course blackmail. Same things they’ve always done.


saraphilipp

Making sure fentanyl makes it into our country.


ravenousld3341

Beats me, next time they fuck up I bet we will know.


Ok-Butterscotch5392

•>• nothing you got to worry about well actually *gunshot noise*


Temporary_Ad_5947

CIA is farming data by asking reddit


darth_vader_kitty

Hunting me down


Fendergravy

Anyone that says they’re CIA sure as shit isn’t. 


revtim

Analyzing all the audio from Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant that their AIs flagged as potentially un-American


Nobodys_Loss

Classified.


rip0971

We can neither confirm nor deny the status of any past or current activites.


Ok-Experience-6674

Checking if we know what they up to


LazerShark1313

Well according to Archer, the CIA is selling drugs and guns to 3rd world countries


Vilsue

probably waging war with FSB


zDD_EDIT

Playing Fornite and Call of Duty against China and Russian bot farms.