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> Why does it feel like the CIA dropped the ball on China? Because the CIA, literally, dropped the ball on China. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia

• xvector 7y ago
  How do you fall from being able to change the course of world history with shadow governments, to failing to even install operatives in the country? > Last year, an F.B.I. employee pleaded guilty to acting as a Chinese agent for years, passing sensitive technology information to Beijing in exchange for cash, lavish hotel rooms during foreign travel and prostitutes. That's how.