Captured,Killed or Compromised,Countries Like China, Pakistan Hunting Down CIA's Informants : Report

[Lonewarrior]

The New York Times said in a report that "top American counterintelligence officials warned every CIA station and base around the world last week about troubling numbers of informants recruited from other countries to spy for the United States being captured or killed."

US counterintelligence officials are warning CIA stations around the world about "troubling" numbers of informants recruited from other nations to spy for America being captured or killed, according to a media report which said in recent years "adversarial intelligence services" in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have hunted down the agency's sources and turned them into double agents in some cases.

The report also said that sometimes, informants who are discovered by adversarial intelligence services are not arrested, "but instead are turned into double agents who feed disinformation to the CIA, which can have devastating effects on intelligence collection and analysis. Pakistanis have been particularly effective in this sphere," the report quoted former officials as saying.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/countries-like-china-pakistan-hunting-down-cias-informants-report-2566467

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html

 

[ahsan17]

I would take this with a grain of salt. Likely there's an unknown motive behind this news - at least unknown to regular people like us. NYT is a very establishment-favourable media outlet. They wouldn't publish something like this without consent from the US government itself.

 

[Stewie]

If I was spying in Americans and sharing the information with Pakistan, I am sure I would be captured and shipped off to Gitmo or shot as well.
Most governments would do that if they found people spying on their own country. It’s normal, isn’t it?

 

[Napa]

If I was spying in Americans and sharing the information with Pakistan, I am sure I would be captured and shipped off to Gitmo or shot as well.
Most governments would do that if they found people spying on their own country. It’s normal, isn’t it?

It’s normal, but also shows the declining competence of the CIA.

 

[Stewie]

It’s normal, but also shows the declining competence of the CIA.

Maybe it’s not their competence that’s declining. Maybe it’s their clout. Under Trump, US did abandon a lot of their allies.

 

[Napa]

Maybe it’s not their competence that’s declining. Maybe it’s their clout. Under Trump, US did abandon a lot of their allies.

Most significant damage was done long before Trump.

2010
According to an investigation by The New York Times, the government of the PRC was able to either kill or imprison 18 to 20 CIA agents from 2010 to 2012; an article in Foreign Policy cited a higher number, putting the number of sources killed at at least 30.[12][13] A joint CIA and FBI counterintelligence operation set up to investigate the intelligence failure advanced three different theories[13][14] as to why the spy network was dismantled: 1. there was a mole within the CIA, 2. "sloppy tradecrafts", and (3) PRC intelligence agents had hacked the covert system the CIA used to communicate with its foreign sources.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_espionage_in_China#2010