FLASHBACK: China crippled CIA by killing US sources, says New York Times

Vanity / BBC Flashback ^

[TigerClaws]

Up to 20 CIA informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times reports, damaging US information-gathering in the country for years.

It is not clear whether the CIA was hacked or whether a mole helped the Chinese to identify the agents, officials told the paper.

They said one of the informants was shot in the courtyard of a government building as a warning to others.

The CIA did not comment on the report.

Four former CIA officials spoke to the paper, telling it that information from sources deep inside the Chinese government bureaucracy started to dry up in 2010. Informants began to disappear in early 2011.

The CIA and FBI teamed up to investigate the events in an operation one source said was codenamed Honey Badger.

The paper said this investigation had centred on one former CIA operative but there was not enough evidence to arrest him. He now lives in another Asian country.

In 2012, an official at China's security ministry was arrested on suspicion of spying for the US. He was said to have been lured into the CIA. No other such arrests appear to have reached public attention during that time. Obama questioned slow intelligence

Matt Apuzzo, a New York Times journalist who worked on the story, told the BBC: "One of the really troubling things about this is that we still don't know what happened.

"There's a divide within the American government over whether there was a mole inside the CIA or whether this was a tradecraft problem, that the CIA agents got sloppy and got discovered, or whether the Chinese managed to hack communications."

[TigerClaws]

Chinese dissdent media are today now saying Joe Biden sold out the CIA agents leading to these killings.

[Chainmail]

Or someone’s unsecured but classified e-mails were intercepted.

[rfreedom4u]

Or someone’s Chinese spy driver overheard conversations.

[ealgeone]

That was my first thought in reading the title.

[rlmorel]

Americans should not forget who they are dealing with. They are Communists.

[rlmorel]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[george76]

Feinstein was chair of Select Senate Intelligence Committee 2009-2015.. China systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, per NY Times, May 2017 .. This spy had access to everything that Feinstein had access to.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3677259/posts?page=45#45

Coincidence? Feinstein employed a Chinese Spy for 20 years, using the taxpayers’ money, as her husband raked in million$ from the Chinese Communists.

China murdered or imprisoned 20 CIA Operatives and sources while Feinstein had a Chinese spy as her office manager.?

[SomeCallMeTim]

To many in our government simply do not understand the true level of threat that China is for us.

[Lazamataz]

Americans should not forget who they are dealing with. They are Communists.

No, they're not. They are (relatively) free-market advocates.

They are authoritarian, rigid, and oppressive, but they are not Communists.

[KC_Conspirator]

CIA’s secured networks were hacked.

[rlmorel]

Laz, I have to disagree vehemently with you on this, they are indeed Communists. They are just not showing it to the world for very valid reasons.

Furthermore, just because they appear to “relax” certain aspects of the way they do things related to business, money, or property ownership, they will take all that away when they get to the point in the world they are aiming for.

In some part of their nation, they show the world the velvet glove, because that is what the world wants to see. But they aren’t that. It is only for show and to achieve goals.

[TigerClaws]

Biden sold us out to the ChiComs.

What did he sell?

The DNC servers were hacked by the Russians. Right? It’s their go to cover story when they have a mole. The mole was Joe Biden.

His son Hunter applied for naval clearance and was denied due to drugs.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign

Quote:
On May 7, 2013, he was assigned to a Reserve unit at Naval Station Norfolk. He had hoped to work in naval intelligence, but was given a job in a public-affairs unit.

[TigerClaws]

Conspiracy ping.

[Home-of-the-lazy-dog]

M
Hmmm...Let’s see... who was the VP in bed with China at the time? No,no,no... don’t tell me... it’s coming to me... on the tip of my tongue... any second now...

Atlas Shrugged! And, Satan, laughing, spreads his wings!

[Fresh Wind]

Or Chinese blackmail of a source high in the Obomba Administration.

[null and void]

The obama/biden administration betrayed intel sources across the world.

The damage, both short term from the loss of those sources, and long term from the loss of trust in the US for possible future sources is incalculable.

The government wants to disarm us after 244 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[BobL]

One of the HUGE PROBLEMS with these federal agencies is that they don’t do political background check (or only a very light one), and don’t have a serious political litmus test to see if their Ivy League types that they hire actually support this country.

I guess they figure that even Leftists can ‘compartmentalize’, when clearly they cannot.

[PGalt]

LOL and GREAT tagline BUMP! Thanks, nully. I’m so old & life’s been so fun/good...that I don’t mind when or how I go out...wut?...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mad+magazine+what+me+worry+image&t=osx&ia=web

[PGalt]

I’d still like to punch clown face Pete Buttgage in the face B4. That reminds me where’s/take my B-Complex today. : )

[null and void]

...that I don’t mind when or how I go out...

Should have a near death experience, you'll probably care even less...