= Backlinks
Announcements and updates by self:
* 2023-06-10: initial announcements
* https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1667532991315230720[]. Follow up when more domains were found: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1717445686214504830
* https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/comments/146185r/i_found_16_new_cia_covert_communication_websites/[]. Marked as SPAM 5 by mods days later. After reaching 92 votes, a very positive reply for that niche sub, and being obviously on topic. Weird. Anyways, did its job and likely kicked off hackernews.
* https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/pfbid04KvRbEXghJakcD4AQz4379L5oVjPZ6vrBF1Eak3p81VnqRSXuXdvvYonCWPhGfQXl
* 2023-10-26 https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1717445686214504830[]: announcement by self after finding 75 more sites
* Shared by others soo after:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279375#36280220[] (212 points). Shame that this was published when we only had about 20 websites. As of writing we had 240. Might have been a greater hit then.
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* https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/14705gp/cia_2010_covert_communication_websites/ failed attempt with bad link unfortunately
* 2024-01-15: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1747742453778559165[] <Oleg Shakirov's findings>
* 2024-01-23: https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/111807480628392615[] <ipinf.ru> gives 4 hits and 4 new suspects, announced at:
* 2024-09 <Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli>
* 2025-03-13: 44 new domains found: <Updates/44 new CIA websites>{full}
* 2025-04-14: <cqcounter> screenshots used to confirm many new hits: <Updates/60 new CIA website screenshots discovered on CQ Counter>
Pings by self:
* 2025-03-31 going to find interested people on Twitter:
* https://x.com/search?q=%22iraniangoals.com%22&src=typed_query&f=live
* https://x.com/EkaterinaJanss1/status/1777087949634490722K
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1906695580778106946
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1906695965114806686
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1906696248326861114
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1906697155642802590
* https://x.com/search?q=%22iraniangoalkicks.com%22&src=typed_query&f=live
* https://x.com/BrendanNoFraser/status/1588552409910894592
* https://x.com/search?q=%22reuters.com%2Finvestigates%2Fspecial-report%2Fusa-spies-iran%22&src=typed_query&f=live
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1906728507389902945
* https://x.com/covert_intel/status/1665349958545858562
* https://x.com/felixsschulz/status/1663909137737023488
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1906730076080660877
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1906731097779536203
* 2025-05-05:
* https://inteltoday.org/2021/07/31/us-national-whistleblower-day-july-30-2021-i-john-reidy-declare-cia-debacle-in-iran-china/#comment-46375 about this article. Besides his interest in intelligence, the dude actually also won a <Breakthrough Prize> in Physics, holy fuck it's mind boggling.
* https://x.com/cirosantilli/status/1919391488422662245 Marisa Taylor, author of the 2014, McClathy DC article
Reactions by others:
* 2023-06-19: https://www.reddit.com/r/numberstations/comments/14dexiu/after_numbers_stations_vanished/ (30 points) off topic on that sub, but thankfully was not deleted, interesting sub topic
* 2023-10-26: <Google Analytics> backlink from https://lms.fh-wedel.de/[] path unknown. Some shitty German university: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachhochschule_Wedel_University_of_Applied_Sciences LMS stands for <Learning management system>, apparently a <Moodle> instance. Maybe they have some <Open educational resources>, but all in <German (language)> so pointless
* Second wave:
* 2023-12-01: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492304[] (65 points). Second submission but pointing to <OurBigBook.com> rather than cirosantilli.com: https://ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites We take those. Reached only 65 points as of January 2024.
* 2023-12-02: https://buttondown.email/grugq/archive/december-2-2023/[]. "grugq" is the handle of a zero day dealer whose received some scrutiny in 2012 after a Forbes protile was written about him: https://archive.ph/7mUG5[]. He comments:
> I don’t think anyone anticipated that databases leaked by hackers would enable OSINT researchers to conduct counterintelligence investigations that rival the state security services.
presumably referring to <DNS Census 2013>.
* 2024-01-12: https://twitter.com/jeremy_wokka/status/1745657801584656564 (40k followers, mid of thread)
* 2025-04-02: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1kd7rzo/comment/mqoocu7/?context=3 user Gilda1234_ mentions this project in a comment to "Between 2010 and 2012, China identified and killed at least 30 CIA informants in the country" by idlikebab
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