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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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To: mylife

Hope your’re out, now. 😬


21 posted on 10/07/2021 1:06:46 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: Navy Patriot

Here’s what I’m thinking:

There has been much ado about how the intelligence agencies have turned out to be anti-American, yet we hear NAMES OF AGENTS IN THE FBI, WE HEAR ABOUT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY IN THE FBI, YET I DON’T REMEMBER...ONE NAME...ONE GROUP IN THE CIA, WHO HAVE EQUALLY ABANDONED AMERICA...

And I think it is about time we look into the activity of the CIA.


22 posted on 10/07/2021 1:30:15 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Steve Van Doorn; nickcarraway

*** 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. ***

Military spokesman Turner said that during the engagement, the helicopter mistook a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
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*** How many CIA assets were killed because of WikiLeaks? ***

Robert Carr, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general who led an investigation into the leak, testified that he knew of “one individual that was killed” by the Taliban as a result of the leaks.

However, Carr conceded that the person killed hadn’t actually been named in the documents Manning gave to WikiLeaks.

Within the FBI, some agents reportedly suspected sloppy work by CIA handlers in Beijing might have been to blame for the losses. Former officials said that a restaurant used for meetings with sources had been fitted with listening devices and staffed with waiters who were Chinese agents.


23 posted on 10/07/2021 1:49:48 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: Fido969

“Would you want to be a foreign national working for the USA now?”

If the CIA was a person, he or she (or “it”) would probably not be in good enough mental health to be able to fly passenger airplanes safely.


24 posted on 10/07/2021 1:53:36 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Navy Patriot

The message also noted the difficulties that the agency was encountering in trying to recruit agents and informants at this time…

I’m sure those ultra woke recruitment ads will help.


25 posted on 10/07/2021 2:08:36 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("Let's go, Brandon!")
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To: White Lives Matter
we all know what happened after that.

Yep, Rob O'Neill got a job with Fox news.........

26 posted on 10/07/2021 2:13:36 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: Navy Patriot; numberonepal

Why is this culling always done on foreign soil?


27 posted on 10/07/2021 2:54:22 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (LfEuTcSk GjOoe BbRiAdNeDnDON)
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To: White Lives Matter; Melian; little jeremiah

:: 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. ::

Which gave-way to Obama saying, “Never under-estimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up.”


28 posted on 10/07/2021 2:56:03 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (LfEuTcSk GjOoe BbRiAdNeDnDON)
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You’d think the CIA would be smart enough to realize there are moles and Marxists in the FedGov causing this. You’d think the CIA would launch an all out campaign to “disappeared” the traitors.


29 posted on 10/07/2021 4:12:57 AM PDT by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: Navy Patriot

They know exactly what they’re doing, loose lips sink ships


30 posted on 10/07/2021 4:18:57 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Always look behind the curtain)
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To: Navy Patriot

I suspect CIA has been well infiltrated by several enemy nations. I doubt we have a single live informant or agent in China, they are all gone, same thing Iran. I understand the ideology of many of the CIA is far left. And we already know CIA leadership was part and parcel of the conspiracy to remove Trump and take down a duly elected government.


31 posted on 10/07/2021 5:09:01 AM PDT by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Yes, the CIA kills people. You didn’t know? They know how to cover up and shift the blame. How many of hillary’s enemies have been made to vanish at her behest?


32 posted on 10/07/2021 5:11:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Dethrone the ruling elite. Redistribute their wealth. Take away their power. Annul their privileges.)
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To: sockmonkey
Former officials said that a restaurant used for meetings with sources

Never, ever, ever use the same restaurant twice for any sources. Beijing has enough places to eat that you can go a lifetime without hitting the same spot twice.

Additionally, every single Chinese person is an asset for Chinese CI. If a CI person comes to them, they will tell the CI what they saw and will report if it happens again. Never let it happen twice.

If you have to have a meeting in Beijing, have the next one in the countryside, an outlier town. But never the same place twice.
33 posted on 10/07/2021 5:36:39 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I remember FJoeBitem’s role in the Team 6 horrorshow but didn’t remember what 0b0la said.


34 posted on 10/07/2021 8:24:36 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Nothing is more important than Truth)
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To: Navy Patriot

When you get to close to the top things happen.

Russia, China, Iran, and Pakistan

Ever see the list of all the people who died that knew the Clintons?.


35 posted on 10/07/2021 8:47:51 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Navy Patriot

The Navy and FBI (and possibly the CIA) ignored John Walker for years, until his estranged wife blew the whistle.


36 posted on 10/07/2021 9:01:15 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Fido969

And there was a public leak of news that the CIA, while under Brennan, had multiple compromises on China, where all their assets were rounded up due to his malfeasance.

Going back to 2010...https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-found-cia-spies-leak-2018-8?op=1


37 posted on 10/07/2021 9:32:23 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: sockmonkey; nickcarraway

Thank you sockmonkey. We can see with Benghazi and Afghanistan our politicians are TRYING to get our guys killed. Then they always blame it on someone else. Benghazi was blamed on a video on youtube that had a total of 17 views when it was accused.


38 posted on 10/07/2021 10:40:31 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: 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


We already know this from watching the movies and tv.


39 posted on 10/07/2021 10:44:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: mylife

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

I thought Slick Willie was out of office?

/sorry for the juvenile sophomoric response, I just had to.


40 posted on 10/07/2021 11:52:47 AM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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