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CIA used a quick and dirty web-based system to communicate with agents around the world. Easy to use but not sophisticated. Iran and China used this find US spies and convert or kill many agents and entire national spy networks starting around 2008.

Once you recognized the system, counter-spies could simply use Google to find the CIA’s communication sites. Then use standard traffic analysis to find out who visited the sites, identifing the spy networks.

Iran found spies using the system, converted some to double-agents, killing dozens of others.

Iran (probably) passed the info to China, who wiped out the CIA network there, turning and killing 30+ agents. Iran then went spy hunting across the Middle East, too.

Tha absolute kicker: a CIA tech contractor identified the problem, that the network was compromised and spies disappearing due to it, reported it up the chain in 2008. He was ignored, punished and fired. Part of the reason we know this all happened is because he filed a Federal whistleblower protection lawsuit.

So many/most of these US agents could not be dead if CIA management AND the CIA inspector general had listened and acted on the report of a technical / security problem. Instead they denied they had a problem, burying their heads and their agents in the sand.

So not only is the CIA riddled with terrible torture monkeys, but also deadly incompetent, inept management.

Article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html [yahoo.com] - The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/12/obama-senate-cia-torture-report-september-11-classified [theguardian.com]

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