Posted on 12/22/2020 10:43:37 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence, according to three former U.S. officials. The surveillance by Chinese operatives began in some cases as soon as the CIA officers had cleared passport control. Sometimes, the surveillance was so overt that U.S. intelligence officials speculated that the Chinese wanted the U.S. side to know they had identified the CIA operatives, ---SNIP---
CIA officials believed the answer was likely data-driven—and related to a Chinese cyberespionage campaign devoted to stealing vast troves of sensitive personal private information, like travel and health data, as well as U.S. government personnel records. U.S. officials believed Chinese intelligence operatives had likely combed through and synthesized information from these massive, stolen caches to identify the undercover U.S. intelligence officials. It was very likely a “suave and professional utilization” of these datasets, said the same former intelligence official. This “was not random or generic,” this source said. “It’s a big-data problem.”
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If you had any doubt about the US Intelligence community’s incompetence, this should put it to rest.
Now they won’t have to steal it. They’ll be on the distribution list.
All provided by their good friends the Clintons and Clintonistas.
What makes you think they weren’t previously? Who knows how far pay to play went under Obama, Biden and the Clintons.
Not to mention Leakwell, er, Stalwell.
As long as the money is good right?
Wow, this was before the known China OPM hack in 2014 too.
I’m still trying to decide who is worse, Chinese Intelligence or CIA?
Cant really come to a conclusion, they can all burn in Hell for all I care.
Confucius say...”many useful idiots today”
The “OPM hack” wasn’t much of a hack ... idiotic Obama appointees gave a Chinese national access to the data.
John Brennan CIA director, Director of CIA, March 8, 2013 January 20, 2017
Preceded by: David Petraeus, who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012.
The CIA’s communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
2/14/2019, 1:58:52 PM · by detective · 45 replies
Yahoo News ^ | November 2, 2018 | Zach Dorfman and Jenna McLaughlin
In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions: a compromise of the agency’s internet-based covert communications system used to interact with its informants in dark corners around the world. Teams of CIA experts worked feverishly to take down and reconfigure the websites secretly used for these communications; others managed operations to quickly spirit assets to safety and oversaw other forms of triage. “When this was going on, it was all that mattered,” said one former intelligence community official. The situation was “catastrophic,” said another former senior intelligence...
Meh. I really don’t care what happens to deep state fools.
The Chinese Communist Party gave over $10 million to the Biden family. They got classified data and who knows what else.
Biden is bought and payed for by the CCP.
Hummmm, ... trying to remember the last time the CIA did something for me or Legacy America, ... ... well, let me get back to you on that.
And I don't remember anyone being fired or even reprimanded for that epic failure.
Let’s start putting Eric Swallwell on the list? Who know s what this clown has given up.
Nope. Our govt is hopelessly corrupted. As is most of the population, apparently.
May 20 2013 Edie Snowjob, a Chinese asset, flew to China with NSA’s methods and Means on a thumb drive, including the names of projects, the goals, the set up, the operative names and addresses in their respective foreign countries - on June 23, 2013 Eddie flew to Russia and gave them a copy also.
And just now the story of some of the damage he did is surfacing.
Which tends to be more fascist? CIA or FBI? Which has the worst record? Which hires the least talented? Which overpays more its senior execs? Which should be closed first?
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