{"id":1625077,"date":"2022-08-29T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625077"},"modified":"2022-08-29T06:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T10:48:41","slug":"cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-intelligence-assets-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-intelligence-assets-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of Intelligence Assets Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-intelligence-assets-around-the-world%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Acknowledging that recruiting spies is a high-risk business, the cable raised issues that have plagued the agency in recent years, including poor tradecraft; being too trusting of sources; underestimating foreign intelligence agencies, and moving too quickly to recruit informants while not paying enough attention to potential counterintelligence risks \u2014 a problem the cable called placing \u201cmission over security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The large number of compromised informants in recent years also demonstrated the growing prowess of other countries in employing innovations like biometric scans, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and hacking tools to track the movements of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/07\/us\/politics\/cia-reorganization-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C.I.A.<\/a> officers in order to discover their sources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With all our satellites, sophisticated listening devices, and \u201cGee-Whiz\u201d technology, our best intel is still gathered the old-fashioned way. Human intelligence or \u201cHUMINT\u201d is the best way to give meaning to the raw data that streams into Langley\u2019s supercomputers. That idea was challenged in the late 1970s by Jimmy Carter\u2019s choice to lead the CIA, Adm. Stansfield Turner.<\/p>\n<p>Turner was an unmitigated disaster for the CIA. Admittedly, he took over in 1977 right after the Church Committee discovered CIA abuses and law-breaking. But Turner went to work dismantling the clandestine service, believing that \u201cNational Technical Means\u201d like satellites and signals intelligence could do the job of people.<\/p>\n<p>He was proved spectacularly wrong. Turner fired 800 clandestine service officers and reorganized and downgraded the entire CIA operations bureau. It took more than a decade for the agency to recover.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/victoria-taft\/2022\/08\/27\/that-mushroom-cloud-you-see-is-another-trump-media-narrative-exploding-before-your-eyes-n1624712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That Mushroom Cloud You See Is Another Trump Media Narrative Exploding Before Your Eyes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The criticism that the spies have been practicing \u201cpoor tradecraft\u201d and the problem of placing \u201cmission over security\u201d is a leadership problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The warning, according to those who have read it, was primarily aimed at front line agency officers, the people involved most directly in the recruiting and vetting of sources. The cable reminded C.I.A. case officers to focus not just on recruiting sources, but also on security issues including vetting informants and evading adversarial intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among the reasons for the cable, according to people familiar with the document, was to prod C.I.A. case officers to think about steps they can take on their own to do a better job managing informants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Former officials said that there has to be more focus on security and counterintelligence, among both senior leaders and frontline personnel, especially when it comes to recruiting informants, which C.I.A. officers call agents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Losing assets in China and Russia is to be expected. We have very few long-term assets in either country due to paranoid scrutiny by the Communist governments \u2014 the most paranoid ideology in world history. But losing assets due to incompetence or laziness shouldn\u2019t be acceptable, and it\u2019s hoped the CIA will address the problems immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acknowledging that recruiting spies is a high-risk business, the cable raised issues that have plagued the agency in recent years, including poor tradecraft; being too trusting of sources; underestimating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1625079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}