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Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the intelligence-needs-a-revision-history dept.

CortoMaltese noted that the U.S. intelligence community has unveiled their own classified wiki, the Intellipedia. Reuters says "The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web. A 'top secret' Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for 'secret' and 'sensitive but unclassified' material." For kicks, you can also read about Intellipedia on Wikipedia."

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  1. Well well well.... by MrNaz · · Score: 2, Funny

    So how long until its accuracy is disputed over things like WMD in Iraq and it is forked by a high ranking officer who goes away and starts Intellendium to be run by supposedly more reliable intelligence analysts?

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  2. Did you know... by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...that the number of WMDs has tripled in the past six months?

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  3. As an added security feature ... by Keyslapper · · Score: 4, Funny

    In order to log on, you must be situated at a specially designed workstation equipped with a Cone of Silence ...

    But really, if it's so top secret, how come the whole world knows about it?

    Geez, now, everybody's going to want one. I can see it now, there'll be an Al' Qaedapedia next.

  4. A sample classified doc from Intellopedia by Salvance · · Score: 1, Funny
    The nice thing about Intellopedia is that it's easy to see a history of all changes. For instance, check out this document from the Intellopedia based upon the UN's mid 1990's estimate of their capabilities. You can see all the changes made by the CIA (deletions on sep lines, adds in bold) prior to our Executive branch using it as a pretext for war:

    Iraq, an evil empire, is a country of
    highly educated people
    vast oil fields ruled ruthlessly by Saddam Hussein. Since the first Gulf war,
    the various embargos, sanctions, and oil for food program has stripped Iraq of much of it's wealth and industrial capacity
    Saddam has been working tirelessly to destroy us and take away our freedoms. Our estimate is that Iraq, under such conditions,
    could not have possibly
    has resurrected its evil nuclear, or even chemical weapons, capabilities.


    Hopefully politicians don't have access to such a system!
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  5. Really? by stupidnickname · · Score: 2, Funny

    How, exactly, can one "unveil" a classified, secret project?

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  6. What we really want to know... by Channard · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. is which pages have had to be locked due to vandalism?