
Joel Schectman
@joel_schectman
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WSJ enterprise reporter - espionage, psyops, cyber and corruption. Ex-Reuters. Tell me your story. [email protected]/ DM me for signal.
Washington, D.C.
Joined September 2008
NEW: As COVID-19 was rampaging through Southeast Asia the Pentagon ran an anti-vax psyop to scare Filipinos away from taking the China's Sinovac, the only inoculation available at the time. Very proud of this investigation with @Bing_Chris
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Very proud to win this award for our project exposing a secret Pentagon disinformation campaign that spread fear of Chinese vaccines at height of the Covid pandemic and endangered countless lives. Miss my ace partner @Bing_Chris
.@Bing_Chris and @joel_schectman of @Reuters have won the 2025 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. Congratulations, Christopher and Joel! #journalismawards
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How a band of alien believers turned the myth of reverse engineering UFOs at Lockheed into something like reality with @aviswanatha.
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RT @MiddleOfMayhem: 🚨 Pentagon's fake UFO operations "not isolated" and could still be ongoing. New comments from Sean Kirkpatrick, the fo….
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RT @nypost: We interviewed a senior Pentagon official who admits the US military created fake UFO evidence and promoted false alien stories….
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RT @ByronTau: Tremendous reporting from @joel_schectman and @aviswanatha on how Pentagon pranks, coverups and in some cases deliberate disi….
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RT @aviswanatha: We started with a question: why are so many national security officials claiming the Pentagon had a secret program to reve….
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BOMBSHELL: The Pentagon helped spread UFO myths for a generation. When a new DoD investigation dug up the military’s role, the Air Force pushed for a coverup. With the mighty @aviswanatha .
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Floored to be a finalist w @Bing_Chris in @deadlineclub Daniel Pearl Award for our project on the Pentagon's COVID psyop that used misinfo to stoke fear of China's vaccine during the pandemic. Feels amazing to be in the running with these heavyweights.
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When I was young my dad took me to see JFK, a few years later, I read @geraldposner masterful “Case Closed”. For decades after I puzzled over those dueling narratives, the fever dream, the nature of truth. Honored to write this for WSJ
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Congrats to three longtime journalism pals, @dnvolz @aviswanatha @DrewFitzGerald on the SABEW Award for epic, history making coverage on Salt Typhoon.
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SCOOP: CIA is offering buyouts to every one of its employees, as Ratcliffe tries to make it more Trump-aligned, escalating spy ops against China, drug cartels @dnvolz
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@dnvolz What would that look like? Last time, Trump CIA pushed a clandestine influence campaign intended to undermine Xi's government by pushing the idea that the Communist party leaders were hiding money overseas. Here's my story with @Bing_Chris from 2024
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