Lynnae Williams was on track to become a CIA agent. Today, the 35-year-old aspiring journalist and would-be CIA spy uses Twitter to expose what she feels are corrupt and unethical practices by the mysterious organization.
The Daily Beast outlined Williams's story Thursday. In 2009, she spent more than three months training to become a CIA spy. She says she was sent to the CIA's "psychological prison," a public mental-health hospital in Virginia.
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There, she says, doctors pushed drugs for schizophrenia and manic depression in a white-walled environment with inedible food. Eventually, the CIA stopped paying her and suspended her security clearance. She's now looking to sue the agency for wrongful termination.
And in the meantime, she's using her @wlynnae account to post tweets such as this one:
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#USG doesn't understand #Freedom of #choice, they let people like #CIA lock u up in a #Secret #psychiatric priso
— Lynnae (@wlynnae) March 29, 2012
Williams' messages also include links to her medical records and other official documents from her time in the CIA. According to The Daily Beast, she posted a tweet on Tuesday reading: “The #Farm is #CIA's training center near #Williamsburg, Virginia. I think it's the Kisevalter Center or something.” She also runs a blog titled Central Intelligence Agency Psychological Abuse.
Williams is a "hot topic on classified social networking," including a secret version of Facebook used by the intelligence community, according to The Daily Beast. The CIA is aware of her Twitter feed.
Since the story broke Thursday morning, Williams has appeared to enjoy the increased attention on her beefs with the agency. She's posted about her increased Twitter follows and appearance in Google search results.
Is she worried her public gripes will result in some unpleasant repercussions from the CIA? Here are a couple of her tweets posted after her story hit the press:
There's not much for the #CIA to do to me, what are they going to do, lock me up and try to drug me again?
— Lynnae (@wlynnae) March 29, 2012
#CIA has nothing to hold over my head and if I stop tweeting, you know they've gotten me again.
— Lynnae (@wlynnae) March 29, 2012
Head over to The Daily Beast for Williams's full story.
Do you think Lynnae Williams is using Twitter for good, or just for attention? Let us know in the comments.
Image courtesy of @wlynnae
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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