One of the most popular documents released by the CIA in 2014 was an account of U-2 testing from 1954-1974. In a creepily sarcastic comment, the CIA’s Twitter rep wrote, “Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ’50s? It was us.” You can imagine what the citizens of Twitter had to say about that.
#1 most read on our #Bestof2014 list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us.http://t.co/BKr81M5OUN (PDF 9.26MB)
— CIA (@CIA) December 29, 2014
If you can find your way through all the porn spam responses, you’ll discover these gems, from disgruntled (and gruntled) people who appreciate that the CIA is willing to trust us with this startling piece of information.
First there are those who want to congratulate the agency for their forthrightness:
@CIA nice weather balloons, asshats
— Ronaldo McDonaldo (@podslurp) December 29, 2014
The three monkeys happy hunting you got my vote do what you have to do. @CIA
— erik valenzuela (@goodworkerone) December 29, 2014
@CIA the Question is! What wasn't you!
— Nomis (@Si_MacLean) December 29, 2014
And then there are those who wonder whether there might have been something that was read perhaps more often than the U-2 report:
@CIA You mean besides reading the Torture Report right?
— Proctors Leaky Balloon Knot🏴 (@fiftycal125) December 29, 2014
Of course other questions remain:
@CIA Why are there still so many redactions of a 50's program in 2014? Example Pg 10 title of Pococks unclassified report.
— David Coffin 🇺🇸🇺🇦🚰 (@dcoffin) December 29, 2014
@CIA That Roswell UFO crash wreckage was taken to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.
Hangar 18.
Why can't we see it?— @BondInNewYork (@BondInNewYork) December 29, 2014
Followed by further explanations:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/549658133808054273
And then there is this fond hope that the CIA will always live on … in some form.
@CIA even if we shut the CIA down I say we let them keep the Twitter because these are the funniest threads ever
— GUDA (@xxxGUDAxxx) December 29, 2014
