CIA to offer tips on 'creative problem solving' at SXSW festival

The typically tight-lipped CIA is peeling backmost the curtain connected immoderate of its secrets with an upcoming presumption astatine South By Southwest festival

WASHINGTON -- The CIA is headed to the South By Southwest festival to stock tips connected uncovering innovative solutions to analyzable challenges.

America's preeminent spy bureau volition present a presumption Sunday connected originative occupation solving astatine the yearly SXSW euphony festival and tech league held successful Austin, Texas, the CIA announced Monday.

The typically tight-lipped bureau said a CIA historiographer and 1 of the agency's nationalist affairs officers volition present the talk, entitled “Mission Possible: The Spies' Guide to Creative Problem Solving."

Sunday’s presumption from the CIA comes during the archetypal play of the event, which brings unneurotic thousands of artists, exertion experts, concern leaders and entrepreneurs.

The bureau said its tips connected originative occupation solving are designed to beryllium adjuvant to anyone, adjacent if their peculiar challenges don't see moving covert surveillance, organizing clandestine meetups oregon sniffing retired treble agents.

“Come larn however originative problem-solving has helped resoluteness analyzable challenges we’ve faced successful protecting nationalist security, and however you tin use originative reasoning to your ain seemingly intolerable missions,” the bureau wrote successful a societal media station promoting the talk.

This month's presumption comes astatine a tumultuous clip for America's quality community. The bureau precocious offered buyout offers to employees arsenic portion of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to shrink and reshape the national government.

Trump has long criticized America’s quality agencies, and his CIA director, John Ratcliffe, has promised large changes, claiming the bureau has strayed from its archetypal absorption connected human-collected intelligence.

Ratcliffe is simply a erstwhile congressman and one-time manager of nationalist intelligence.