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FLASHBACK: China crippled CIA by killing US sources, says New York Times
Vanity / BBC Flashback ^

Posted on 10/19/2020 6:34:51 AM PDT by 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."

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To: null and void

BINGO truth expose


21 posted on 10/19/2020 9:03:25 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

No; Hillary Clinton’s unsecured network was hacked.


22 posted on 10/19/2020 9:10:45 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: null and void

WHAT IF EVERY CHINESE NATIONAL IN THE USA WHO IS NOT A US CITIZEN WAS EXPELLED AS A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK?


23 posted on 10/19/2020 9:11:51 AM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: WASCWatch; TigerClaws

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-chinese-agents-intelligence/


24 posted on 10/19/2020 9:36:21 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Taxman
WHAT IF EVERY CHINESE NATIONAL IN THE USA WHO IS NOT A US CITIZEN WAS EXPELLED AS A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK?

Why would you do that???

America closes immigration door to 91.9 million communists in China
10/5/2020, 12:11:09 PM · 13 of 25
null and void to ifinnegan

Why not all Chinese? Anyone of them, regardless of their better intentions is subject to ummm, pressure, applied by the threat of or actual overt harm to their family members back in the old country.

"Say, it turns out your mother is a near exact tissue match to a polit bureau member who needs a new heart, we can keep looking for a better match if you do this one little thing for us..."


25 posted on 10/19/2020 10:19:16 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: TigerClaws; null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; blueyon; ...

##################

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.

...

Check out article AND comments.

Thanks, TigerClaws.


26 posted on 10/19/2020 10:32:40 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

It was the Clintons that initially sold us out to the Communist Chinese.


27 posted on 10/19/2020 10:44:43 AM PDT by sport
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To: null and void

“Should have a near death experience, you’ll probably care even less...”

I did. Brain tumor removed. !st week of January 2018. In & Out (Not the Ghislaine burger place) of the hospital until the end of March with complications. Clots, seizures, brain bleed, etc. I’ll leave it at that. WHEW have I got some TRUE stories about that experience!


28 posted on 10/19/2020 10:49:04 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: TigerClaws

This is the news that steams my clams:

Warner is giving three co-founders of BLM some kind of contract for making documentaries...

THREE CO-FOUNDERS OF THE RIOTING, LOOTING, BLASTING BLACK LIVES MATTER...

What can we guess the viewership of ANYTHING FROM THOSE THREE would be. I hope it FLOPS before it even hits our viewing eyes in promotion ads.


29 posted on 10/19/2020 11:05:23 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: null and void

And all this is why you CANNOT COMPARE this Hunter activity with what happened to President Trump.

With Trump...it was A LIE
With Biden...it is the TRUTH.

So don’t give us that MORAL EQUIVILENCE CRAP.


30 posted on 10/19/2020 11:09:12 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: PGalt

I’m fixin’ to start an NDE/OOBE ping list.

Would you be interested in joining?


31 posted on 10/19/2020 11:10:48 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: Maris Crane

Where did I do that?


32 posted on 10/19/2020 11:12:14 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: Lazamataz; All

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838


33 posted on 10/19/2020 11:13:32 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: null and void

OMG, I didn’t mean YOU were doing that.

It was a general comment about the media.

If you took it as personal, I apologize.


34 posted on 10/19/2020 11:14:26 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: null and void

Sure. Thanks.


35 posted on 10/19/2020 11:15:09 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: All

The CCP have taken MARXIST TOTALITARIAN CONTROL to new depths...the likes of which NOBODY on this planet has ever seen before. Kai-Fu Lee at the edge..

https://www.edge.org/people

(once again I couldn’t access Lee in the dropdown menu... never had any problem B4)

Anyway he boasts about the Chinese “data collectors”...says they are waaaay ahead of Americans. I dunno. That’s what’s going on here in Uncle Samville right now. Kai-Fu calls the collectors “CHINESE GLADIATORS”. LET THAT SINK IN.


36 posted on 10/19/2020 11:23:43 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Maris Crane

No problem! “You” is one of the linguistic traps of the English language.

I just wanted to make sure I hadn’t inadvertently given the impression that I was the one making that comparison m’self.


37 posted on 10/19/2020 11:24:05 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: PGalt

Kewl! The list is now twice as long!


38 posted on 10/19/2020 11:25:09 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: null and void

I know you from your posts, null, I would never think you could do anything not classy.


39 posted on 10/19/2020 11:26:51 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane
Awwwww, I'm *blushing*

I do try to stay classy, sometimes at the end of the day my tongue is sore and swollen from all that biting...

40 posted on 10/19/2020 11:30:33 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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