CIA director says declassification could expose new cyber threats in the future

guest · Sep 8, 2022

By Martin Matishak @martinmatishak - September 8, 2022

The CIA director said Thursday the method of declassifying intelligence used in the run up to the war in Ukraine could be utilized again in the future to expose other threats, including digital ones, but cautioned such a strategy would likely not be the norm.

“I think when President Biden has decided very carefully, and very selectively, to make public some of our secrets, it’s played a very effective role over the course of the last six months, and I think it can continue to again,” CIA Director William Burns said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington.
“It would make it the exception, not the rule,” he added. “Because the surest way — I’ve certainly found in a year and a half now as director of the CIA — to lose access to that intelligence is to be reckless about how you handle it.”
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“You’re going to have to be careful in other instances, whether it’s in terms of cyber threats or other kinds of challenges, that the United States and our allies will face in the future … If used carefully and selectively I think this technique, this tool, of declassifying some of our secrets in a way that serves a broader strategy can pay big dividends.”

Burns noted that nearly one-third of all of CIA’s officers today “work everyday” on issues related to cybersecurity, technology, science, and digital innovation.
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