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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 butthurt on Tuesday May 23 2017, @12:01AM (1 child)
> I'm glad you didn't link to Snopes. They have a proven liberal agenda.
Interesting! Here's the Snopes link:
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/ [snopes.com]
Their page about this issue ought to be enough to demonstrate their "liberal agenda" to anyone. For one thing they link to the same New York Times article that you did, which says:
They also link to a statement supposedly from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which states, irrelevantly,
-- https://web.archive.org/web/20170129043258/https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2010/10-211.pdf [archive.org]
First off, whether the uranium is exported is beside the point. It's still uranium! Second, the document is hosted by the Internet Archive, which openly states its liberal agenda to "collect published works and make them available in digital formats." Who knows what changes they made to the document?
Then they link to a statement supposedly made by a donor mentioned in the New York Times article, who claims:
-- http://blog.ceo.ca/2015/04/23/statement-of-frank-giustra/ [blog.ceo.ca]
It quotes the ultra-liberal The Guardian which said
It goes, as you say, on and on. Totally one-sided. Disgusting!
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Tuesday May 23 2017, @03:06AM
At the time, they would have been speculating that she would become the President of the US.