Former CIA Analyst Says Terrorists Utilize Bitcoin to Boost Funding
A former counterterrorism analyst for the CIA has found that terrorists are utilizing innovative technologies to boost their funding, one of which is through the use of bitcoin. Yaya Fanusie is the director of analysis for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF) who previously spent seven years as both an economic and counterterrorism analyst in the CIA. Writing on The Cipher Brief, he explained how he recently came across a troubling case of innovative terrorist fundraising. According to Fanusie, The Ibn Taymiyya Media Center (ITMC), which....
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