While the details of these operations have always been murky, a new report released Thursday by China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 uncovered the key technical means the CIA used to organize and promote unrest around the world.

According to the report, since the turn of the XNUMXst century, the rapid development of the internet has provided "new opportunities" for CIA undercover activities in other countries and regions. Any institution or individual, anywhere in the world, who uses US digital equipment or software could be turned into a CIA “puppet agent”.

For decades, the CIA has overthrown or attempted to overthrow at least 50 legitimate governments abroad (the CIA has only acknowledged seven of these), causing unrest in the countries involved. Whether it is the "color revolution" in Ukraine in 2014, the "sunflower revolution" on the island of Taiwan in China, the "saffron revolution" in Myanmar in 2007, the green" in Iran in 2009 or other attempts at "color revolutions", US intelligence agencies are behind it, according to the report.

The dominant position of the United States in telecommunications and command-in-place technologies has provided the American intelligence community with unprecedented opportunities to launch "color revolutions" abroad. The report released by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and 360 reveals five methods commonly used by the CIA.

The first is to provide encrypted network communication services. In order to help protesters in some Middle Eastern countries stay in touch and avoid being tracked and arrested, an American company, believed to have a military background in the United States, has developed TOR technology, which provides stealth access to the internet – Onion Router technology.

Servers encrypt all information passing through them to help some users browse the web anonymously. After the project was launched by American companies, it was immediately provided free of charge to anti-government elements in Iran, Tunisia, Egypt and other countries and regions, so that those "young dissidents who want to undermine the power of their own government" can escape its oversight, according to the report.

The second method is to provide offline communication services. For example, to ensure that anti-government personnel in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries can stay in touch with the outside world when the internet is disconnected, Google and Twitter quickly launched a special service called "Speak2Tweet which allows users to compose and send voice notes for free.

These messages are automatically converted into tweets, then uploaded to the internet and broadcast publicly via Twitter and other platforms to supplement the "real-time account" of the on-site event, according to the report.

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