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How China planted an FBI mole who was discovered only after gutting the CIA's vast spy network
Business Insider ^ | 17 Jan 2023 | James Bamford

Posted on 01/18/2023 2:30:14 AM PST by blueplum

The following is an excerpt from "SPYFAIL: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence" by James Bamford. An alleged spy within the FBI may be largely responsible for unraveling the CIA's Chinese spy network.

The FBI's website carries a stark warning. "The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China," it says, "are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States. Confronting this threat is the FBI's top counterintelligence priority." But far worse is the threat to the lives of scores of courageous Chinese agents who have volunteered to spy for the U.S. within their own country. Over the past decade, more than a dozen agents recruited by the CIA have been killed or imprisoned.

And it now turns out that it was an alleged Chinese spy within the FBI's own counterintelligence division who may have been largely responsible. A spy whose activities went undetected for upwards of two decades, until his quiet arrest in 2020. Currently in a Hawaiian jail, his little-known case is wrapped in layers of secrecy as he awaits trail. ...

.... Attracting no suspicion, Ma would gather up piles of highly secret materials and simply walk out the door with them, just as Hanssen had done for decades. Some he photographed with a digital camera, others he downloaded from his computer onto a flash drive, while still others he copied onto CD-ROM discs....

... Every few months, once he had accumulated a load of secrets, he would call his handlers....

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: china; cia; crookedcops; fbi; jamesbamford; nationalsecurity; spy
This is a very long exerpt, and an intriguing good read
1 posted on 01/18/2023 2:30:14 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

It is becoming clear the only federal government secrets is information withheld from the American people. The federal bureaucracy, media, courts, political establishment, elites aligned with the deep state, and foreign powers are completely in the know about 95% or more of classified materials.


3 posted on 01/18/2023 3:58:57 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work o)
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To: blueplum

musta been Hillarhea as that “FBI mole”...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/developing-chinese-govt-killed-and-imprisoned-18-20-cia-spies-after-penetrating-hillary-clintons-private-server/

this is too timely..coming out as Brandon’s “carelessness” with classified data is hitting the news.

Prob both FJB and HRC were retailing classified info to the CCP


4 posted on 01/18/2023 4:25:43 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: blueplum

Our government agencies have become too stupid to exist anymore. Defund them now. Do not replace.


5 posted on 01/18/2023 4:26:47 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: ping jockey

The oversight committee could make a chart for Wray when he testifies. On one side, what the FBI did. One the other: What the FBI didn’t do.

Did: When through Melina’s clothes. Investigated school parents. Lied to FISA. Pushed Russiagate. Etc

Didn’t do: Catch Chinese spy who revealed the US sources in China.


6 posted on 01/18/2023 4:27:17 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: blueplum
Ban all Chinese CCP Nationals or recently arrived from our Colleges.
Also No one with Chinese Relatives in China and especially CCP members .
Ban all Chinese from owning US property unless native .

Investigate all Chinese who are not from here .
We have millions of Chinese spies here now and ready to strike to topple our govt .
Our gun laws are the only thing protecting us from the Chinese toppling us from within .
I bet the Chinese are behind all these devious Gun grabber laws and groups.

7 posted on 01/18/2023 4:40:41 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: ncalburt

Probable


8 posted on 01/18/2023 4:53:05 AM PST by combat_boots ( )
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To: blueplum

oh the Chinese Spies. Feinstein and her driver, Swalwell and his girlfriend, FBI, sure they are in the White House now as well as DOD.


9 posted on 01/18/2023 4:59:01 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: mo; blueplum; bitt

musta been Hillarhea as that “FBI mole”...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/developing-chinese-govt-killed-and-imprisoned-18-20-cia-spies-after-penetrating-hillary-clintons-private-server/

this is too timely..coming out as Brandon’s “carelessness” with classified data is hitting the news.

Prob both FJB and HRC were retailing classified info to the CCP

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big money in espionage.

is this recent disclosure on FJB’s operation, making it easier for the public to swallow hildabeast’s own treasonous operation?


10 posted on 01/18/2023 5:10:33 AM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: blueplum

When the government started affirmative action you had to know this kind of destruction would happen.


11 posted on 01/18/2023 5:13:12 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: blueplum

Friend of the Bidens?


12 posted on 01/18/2023 5:18:13 AM PST by dila813
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To: blueplum

Also read “Code Name Blue Wren” by Jim Popkin. Describes how the FBI ignored warnings about a 16 year active Cuban mole; Ana Menendes. She was just released after a short 20 years in federal prison.

The FBI seems to ignore its main functions and hide its mistakes. This is typical of long established bureaucracies.


13 posted on 01/18/2023 5:41:32 AM PST by JeanLM
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To: Soul of the South

Perhaps the Chinese will tell us what our government knows about ETs.


14 posted on 01/18/2023 5:58:43 AM PST by GingisK
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To: blueplum

The fbi can’t be very good at investigating if they overlooked a Chinese plant among them. Or maybe they knew but were told to say nothing.


15 posted on 01/18/2023 6:34:54 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho. )
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To: mo

Here’s the reuters story that relies upon:

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-china-killed-cia-sources-hobbled-us-spying-from-2010-to-2012-nyt-2017-5


16 posted on 01/18/2023 6:52:14 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: blueplum

Isn’t White Supremacy was the greatest threat? Maybe this partially explains why US intelligence agencies failed so badly in this regard.


17 posted on 01/18/2023 7:41:22 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: blueplum

Sounds like the entire FBI needs to be dumped


18 posted on 01/18/2023 8:08:03 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa

James Bamford pretending he cares about national security ping.


19 posted on 01/18/2023 7:06:23 PM PST by Fedora
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To: lepton

2010 - 2012, the Obama years. Who was the head of the FBI, DNI, CIA, DOJ and DOJ Internal Security Division, NSA, etc.? When you look at their names, you’ll know why all this happened, if Bamford is accurate. Many of them involved in “Russiagate Hoax”.

Now do you understand what happened?

Several members of Congress are reds or Comsypms by their own words and actions. Hmmmm!


20 posted on 01/19/2023 1:11:32 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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