The CIA has opened an Instagram account

This Thursday, the Central America Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released its official Instagram account. A first post was published shortly before 11 am in Washington. It shows an officer's desk with a wig lying on the chair, a black notebook and a brown bag that says "Top Secret Pulp", a difficult phrase to translate that refers to "pulp fiction", something like red or bloody literature. The legend of the post says: "I'm watching with my little eye …".

Although it may seem strange that the secret spy agency has joined the very popular photo sharing platform, more than a billion users of Instagram is an ideal place to promote some actions carried out by the agency. In a brief statement released today, the CIA said its Instagram account would facilitate the recruitment of "talented Americans" and that it would serve to share the agency's stories. However, he warned: "We can not promise any selfie of secret places."

Five years ago, the intelligence agency launched a cheeky Twitter account – even though it often alternates more serious content – with a hilarious tweet: "We can neither confirm nor deny that it's safe." 39 is our first tweet. "

The Twitter account has published 4,300 publications and has over 2.5 million followers. Many of his tweets are naturally of a more institutional nature: a photo of the director, Gina Haspel, smiling from the podium during a recent speech at Auburn University; photographs of various artifacts from the CIA Museum, open only to employees and anyone authorized to spend the day at their Langley Campus; or pictures of CIA recruiting banners in subway stations.

But other tweets reveal a real sense of humor. In the public account "Molly Hale", aka a group of rotating employees who answer questions from the public about the CIA. "Do not forget," wrote the CIA in February, "that there are some things that Molly unfortunately can not answer: questions about confessions, conspiracy theories, trolls or spam FOIA requests (the Freedom of Information Act, the Freedom of Information Act), and this must be obvious … it will not respond to anything that is clbadified. "

In one of his most viral tweets, the CIA showed training for Lulu, a dog trained to become an explosives expert and who left the program.