CIA Tweet: "We Don't Know Where Tupac Is"

When the U.S. intelligence agency CIA celebrated its first month on Twitter, the agency published a series of humorous replies. It promised Ellen DeGeneres a selfie if she dropped by headquarters. And on July 7, 2014, it tweeted from the official account: “No, we don’t know where Tupac is”.

A Joke Makes the Rounds in the Music Press

The post referenced the conspiracy narrative that Tupac had faked his death and was living somewhere. Rolling Stone, rap.de, and Musikexpress picked up the tweet on July 8. rap.de noted that adherents of such theories would draw the exact opposite conclusion from the statement.

No Statement on Files

The quip is no evidence for any version: it was a social media gag, not a statement on files or investigations. How the claim arose and what speaks against it is covered in the fact check on “Is Tupac Alive?”.