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CIA Admits Dozens of Informants Killed Over Years
Newsmax ^ | October 5, 2021 | Theodore Bunker

Posted on 10/06/2021 9:03:50 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

The Central Intelligence Agency admitted in a top secret cable to counterintelligence stations around the world that dozens of informants have been killed in the last few years, as well as multiple agents, according to The New York Times.

The cable notes that the agency’s counterintelligence mission center has reviewed dozens of cases involving the killing, arrest, or compromise of foreign informants in the last several years. It also included the specific number of agents that have been killed by other intelligence agencies, which the Times notes is unusual for counterintelligence cables.

The message also noted the difficulties that the agency was encountering in trying to recruit agents and informants at this time, and the threats they face from Russia, China, Iran, and Pakistan. It also critiques the agency’s own practices, and notes that several issues have cropped up in the last few years, including over-trusting sources, underestimating rival agencies, and overlooking the potential risks when recruiting informants.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; humanassets; spies; spooks
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I wonder why?
1 posted on 10/06/2021 9:03:50 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

10% to the big guy for leaking the information


2 posted on 10/06/2021 9:05:25 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Navy Patriot

No way! we have leaders that finger operatives but how could this happen to such an elite crew?


3 posted on 10/06/2021 9:06:57 PM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: LukeL

Joe and Obama did it the damn pigs.


4 posted on 10/06/2021 9:08:19 PM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: Navy Patriot

Dems sleeping with Chinese spy’s might have something to do with it.

What a bunch of screwups at the CIA. Would you want to be a foreign national working for the USA now?


5 posted on 10/06/2021 9:09:22 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Navy Patriot

POTUS is amole, stupid.


6 posted on 10/06/2021 9:10:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: mylife

Remember Biden opened his mouth and exposed SEAL Team 6 as the ones who got Bin Laden and we all know what happened after that.


7 posted on 10/06/2021 9:11:30 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: Navy Patriot

Why anyone would risk their life for the wretched progressives and bloated power-grasping political bureaucrats in Washington DC is incomprehensible to me.


8 posted on 10/06/2021 9:19:12 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Navy Patriot

The article overlooked the elephant in the room....

domestic spying and other domestic “activities”.

You know they do it...


9 posted on 10/06/2021 9:33:17 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Navy Patriot

That’s what happens when the commissars are at the top and run the CIA. When Brennan was boss there was a massacre of informants in China. Trump was never able to purge or control the CIA. The CIA scuttled his attempt to depose Maduro in Venezuela. Its worse under the Biden cabal. Eventually the CIA may need to be disbanded.


10 posted on 10/06/2021 9:35:59 PM PDT by allendale
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To: White Lives Matter

I will never forget! treasonous traitor. 17 dead


11 posted on 10/06/2021 9:41:45 PM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: PGR88

I joined under Carter, someone has to do the deed.


12 posted on 10/06/2021 9:43:57 PM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: allendale

they are far to entrenched and our buddy GWB helped cement that deal


13 posted on 10/06/2021 9:46:19 PM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: Navy Patriot

How many CIA assets were killed because of Wikileaks? I bet that’s a huge chunk. That’s what Wiki leaks was designed to do.


14 posted on 10/06/2021 9:47:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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said, "How many CIA assets were killed because of Wikileaks?"

The only thing I seen that was wrong about wikileaks was that "leaked" video of the Apache helicopter taking out a group of people some armed with RPG's. They also had a camera crew with the rebels. They claimed they where not armed soldiers. It was a false story.

Other then that what was said that got people killed by wikileaks?
15 posted on 10/06/2021 9:55:26 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Navy Patriot

James Bond must have been working with the CIA.
He dies as does CIA agent Felix Leiter.


16 posted on 10/06/2021 10:03:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Navy Patriot

Yeah, but she wiped it, like with a cloth.


17 posted on 10/06/2021 10:15:22 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: Navy Patriot

If the CIA is packed full of liberals (as I suspect) then they would be extremely lax on operational and data security. The liberal mindset, in general just doesn’t believe anything bad will happen when classified information is leaked. There are exceptions, I’m sure - I mean in general.


18 posted on 10/06/2021 10:30:07 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: nickcarraway

At least one was killed of the exposures/leaks of Phil Agee and cohort turncoat. Remember the CIA station chief in Greece named Welch?

Agee’s then cohort was writer Mark Hosenball, also kicked out of England as a security risk. Now writes for Newsweek and other leftist publications.

And Brennan. If there ever was an anti-American intelligence head of an American agency, it would be him.

And let’s not forget American Psycho Rep. Adam Schiff. He’s definitely not working to protect America. Russia maybe, but not America, aided by Mr. Rep. Commie Screwer Fang Fang Swalswel Aka Swallowswell.


19 posted on 10/06/2021 10:38:53 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Navy Patriot

“I wonder why?”

Easy answer: They recruit America-haters out of the Ivory League, instead of from Red America. So when their the people working for them and with them are seen to be advancing the interests of the country, they simply ‘get made’ and therefore quickly liquidated.


20 posted on 10/07/2021 1:01:48 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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