Agency assets killed and imprisoned between 2010 and 2012 (Infowars) – More than a dozen CIA sources in China were killed or imprisoned between 2010 and 2012 after US spy operations were compromised, the New York Times reports. The highly-effective crack down, described by…
Agency assets killed and imprisoned between 2010 and 2012
(Infowars) – More than a dozen CIA sources in China were killed or imprisoned between 2010 and 2012 after US spy operations were compromised, the New York Times reports.
The highly-effective crack down, described by current and former US officials as one of the worst intelligence breaches in decades, sparked a joint CIA-FBI investigation into how the sources’ identities became known to the Chinese.
“Some were convinced that a mole within the C. I. A. had betrayed the United States, ” the article states. “Others believed that the Chinese had hacked the covert system the C. I. A. used to communicate with its foreign sources. Years later, that debate remains unresolved.”
Between late 2010 and late 2012 more than a dozen CIA assets were killed – one of whom who was shot in a courtyard outside a government building – while 18 to 20 were imprisoned by China, three officials said.
The severity of the breach has been compared to the losses incurred during the Cold War, specifically the cases involving Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.
“The number of American assets lost in China, officials said, rivaled those lost in the Soviet Union and Russia during the betrayals of both Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, formerly of the C.
