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Absolutely. What makes this newsworthy, though, isn't that the spies are dead-- it's that twelve died in a ~year. Something happened that the CIA wasn't ready
by txru 9y ago
Absolutely.
What makes this newsworthy, though, isn't that the spies are dead-- it's that twelve died in a ~year. Something happened that the CIA wasn't ready for. Take this as a sign of a few possible things-- A) The US may have had a mole, B) China's security apparatus got much much better very quickly, C) The US is complacent in foreign human intelligence, D) Hacking may have killed more people. We're not sure of which one, or if it's any of those things, which leaves us the article-- 12 spies are dead.
- thevardanian 9y agoor E) They gathered a tremendous amount of information over a long period of time, and played the CIA's game by giving it to them easy. That way more is revealed, and then China executed, no pun intended, the plan all at once when the time seemed right. But again who knows.
- Veratyr 9y ago> it's that twelve died in a ~year Per the original NYT article, it was 2 years: "From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.’s sources."