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CIA Officers Pulled from China Because of OPM Breach

Accepted submission by Phoenix666 at 2015-10-01 13:18:36
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The employee records from the Central Intelligence Agency were not included in the data cache from the Office of Personnel Management hack, according to government officials. However, that doesn't mean the CIA has been unaffected by the breach. The Washington Post reports that according to unnamed current and former US officials, the CIA pulled "a number of officers" from the US Embassy in Beijing [arstechnica.com] as a precautionary measure following the breach—precisely because their names would not appear in State Department personnel files believed to have been obtained by Chinese intelligence operatives.

CIA agents have been pulled from China. Excellent. Now how do we get them pulled from America, too?


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