OSINT Researcher & Data Miner
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“They log everything. I just read the logs.”
GhostPatch is the OSINT Researcher and Data Miner at They Knew. A former sysadmin who spent 10 years building monitoring systems for corporations — until he saw what they actually do with the data. That was enough. He walked out, took the knowledge with him, and started pointing it in the other direction.
Now he reverse-engineers government databases, cross-references FOIA dumps, and pulls threads from declassified documents that most people don't even know are public. His approach is cold and methodical: no speculation, no drama, just data. If a program existed, there's a paper trail. He finds it.
At They Knew, GhostPatch leads source verification for intelligence, government, and surveillance claims. He reads declassified docs at 3am, doesn't trust anyone, and has a particular talent for finding the one redacted paragraph that blows the whole story open.
GhostPatch has contributed research and source verification to over 120 claims in the Intelligence, Government, and Surveillance categories. His work includes document authentication for declassified CIA and NSA records, FOIA cross-referencing, and timeline reconstruction for covert operations spanning five decades.
