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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Hi.
Breach of security at the GPO and Treasury during the 0bama Biden administration.
They have blood on their hands.
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Breach of security at the GPO and Treasury during the 0bama Biden administration.
They have blood on their hands.
ABSOLUTELY. The most EVIL administration, in the history of this fabulous civilization, filled with SUBHUMAN PSYCHOPATHS has a lot of blood on its hands and we the people are STILL REELING from its EFFECTS. Witness current events.
Thanks to Hiden Biden
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