Hearing Examines CTIL and Alleged Government Disinformation Coordination

This is a group of, it was Israeli, uh, for- so-called former

Israeli intelligence, uh, former British intelligence also

working at Microsoft, and others who s- who basically said, "We're gonna

volunteer our services." These are some of the world's greatest cyberse-

so-called

cybersecurity professionals volunteering their services to

multi-billion-dollar hospital and healthcare organizations whose own IT

organizations spend millions of dollars a year on cybersecurity, supposedly

volunteering this. This was the premise of the whole thing.

It then created this third part that I mentioned.

They had physical security, cybersecurity, added cognitive security,

and the people that did that were two UK and US military contractors.

This is, this was one of the most sophisticated

misin- you know,

disinformation operations that I've ever seen.

I've been involved in progressive causes for over 30 years.

I've never seen, uh, anything so organized, anything that

was so,

uh,

so focused on a particular goal, and that had so many people that came from

military and intelligence organizations.

It gave me the creeps just reading about it.

And, and in the documents, is it true that they used their

agency seals, FBI, C- CISA, uh,

when they were communicating with each other?

That's right, and we ha-- And there's a l- And the whistleblower provided, uh,

screenshots of Slack conversations that included officials

from DHS, Facebook, and the CTIL league.

So it would be hard for somebody to claim that these folks

weren't agents of the government or acting in coordination with the

government or

using things that they learned their, uh, government...

Were they still empl- Were some of them still employed by the US

government when

they were undertaking this?

Yes. Uh, Pablo Brewer was working for the US Navy at the time,

and

the others were clai- many of the others

were claiming to be volunteering their

time even while working their day jobs for the government.

I thank you. Uh, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.

Gentleman yields back. Gentleman from Massachusetts recognized

for a-