Claim

Central Intelligence Agency USES zero-day exploit

The CIA is listed among agencies participating in the market for privately developed zero-day exploits.

Episode
EP 98 — Zero Day Brokers
Origin
Attributed
Confidence
87% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Nicole Perlroth
Attributed source
an original zero-day broker

Transcript evidence

“agencies like the CIA ... were trying to play the NSA’s game but didn’t have the same talent pool in-house”

Nicole Perlroth · offsets 32400–32515

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:12:15.684596+00:00

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