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The New York Times reports that the Central Intelligence Agency faced one of its worst intelligence gathering setbacks in decades when many of its informants in China were killed or imprisoned between 2010 and 2012. To this day, it is unknown how the identities of the informants were compromised:
From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.'s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A.
Still others were put in jail. All told, the Chinese killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 of the C.I.A.'s sources in China, according to two former senior American officials, effectively unraveling a network that had taken years to build.
Assessing the fallout from an exposed spy operation can be difficult, but the episode was considered particularly damaging. The number of American assets lost in China, officials said, rivaled those lost in the Soviet Union and Russia during the betrayals of both Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, formerly of the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., who divulged intelligence operations to Moscow for years.
The previously unreported episode shows how successful the Chinese were in disrupting American spying efforts and stealing secrets years before a well-publicized breach in 2015 gave Beijing access to thousands of government personnel records, including intelligence contractors. The C.I.A. considers spying in China one of its top priorities, but the country's extensive security apparatus makes it exceptionally hard for Western spy services to develop sources there.
Also at BBC, which notes:
Last year, China warned government officials to watch out for spies - and not fall in love with them
This CIA story really helps put that "Don't date a foreigner!" campaign in perspective. You don't want to see your significant other bleeding out in the street, do you? DO YOU?!
Update: Chinese paper applauds anti-spy efforts after report CIA sources killed
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday May 22 2017, @12:09PM (2 children)
Corruption is all they know how to do. They literally don't know how to do anything else. After the earthquake in Haiti all kinds of companies and people donated materiel to the relief effort. Penske, for example, donated hundreds of trucks. They sat in the Port of Miami for 8 months because nobody knew you needed an export license or how to do any of the things required to get them to Haiti. They didn't know what to do with any of the $60 million people donated, because they had no idea how to spend it to help people affected by a natural disaster. So they created a fund to administer it, hired a bunch of their pals to run the fund, salaries paid by the fund, and as far as I know they have spent very little of it. The money will probably pay salaries and be used to curry political favor with whomever until it's gone.
Nobody will be very surprised at that. One addendum that people might find surprising, though, is that nobody in the UN Logistics Cluster, USAID, Red Cross, or any of the other agencies people normally think are tasked with disaster relief, know how to do any of that stuff either. Those agencies are places for the children of the rich and powerful to stamp their passports before being placed in comfy, lucrative jobs.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @09:51PM (1 child)
Hey you guys, take it to a motel room. I think jmorris has one permanantly booked over to the right (or possibly even left) of you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:09AM
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