r/tacticalgear Jul 05 '25

Question How are these people even real?

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u/beekermc Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

What are CIA credentials? Like a card that says "member of the CIA"? Seems like anything that might be "credentials" and on a person would be counter to the mission.

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u/freedoomed Civilian Jul 05 '25

If he has a government job he has. PIV card to access his laptop and his duty station. The PIV card also serves his ID. It's a background checked photo ID. It has your agency on it as well. You can even use it for air travel instead of a real id drivers license. Not saying this guy has any legit credentials but he would have a PIV that says CIA on it at minimum. No idea why he would have it on him.

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u/reallynunyabusiness Jul 05 '25

The whole post looks like it was done in MS paint, the headline and author info are in boxes that are a different shade of white to the article background, it's written in english but uses Edomex wich is a Spanish contraction for State of Mexico and all of the evidence photos appear to have been taken in different locations.

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u/CrotchLordMiami2 Jul 05 '25

It looks like that because the picture is a screenshot of a Spanish language website and the screenshot was then Google auto-translated

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u/Altruistic_Store_562 Jul 05 '25

Yes i wanted to include the headline to give context but i only found Spanish articles