Please don't post like this here unless you have specific evidence. A Wikipedia link does not count as evidence.

It's not that there are no CIA shills. It's that it's impossible to distinguish them from internet user imagination about spies and shillage, which is an extremely prolific and low-quality activity. There's tons of past explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: Separately but importantly, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines also.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Sure, but I'm a brit. See my past posts.

(and btw no chance of russians doing the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_from_Olgino thing is there. Or those these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot doing it for them)