The CIA Blames Incompetence for Losing
Dozens of Agents but Is That the Real Story?
Red State,
by
Streiff
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
10/6/2021 11:13:57 PM
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story that was frightening in a couple of aspects. First, it reported that the C.I.A. had sent a top-secret cable to all stations warning them that “troubling” numbers of agents and informants were being rounded up by our opponents and either executed or flipped into double agents.
The message, in an unusual top secret cable, said that the C.I.A.’s counterintelligence mission center had looked at dozens of cases in the last several years involving foreign informants who had been killed, arrested or most likely compromised. Although brief, the cable laid out the specific number of agents executed by rival intelligence agencies
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Omen55 10/6/2021 11:28:32 PM (No. 937551)
Cut down the CIA & contract with the Mossad as it will save lives & $$$.
Indeed use the $$$ to the Mossad.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 10/6/2021 11:47:37 PM (No. 937559)
The CIA isn't as clever as they think they are. Thirty some years ago when I was a college student I walked through the front door of a CIA office and asked for a job application. There was nothing indicating that it was a CIA office but I knew it was and I'm sure they were stunned that I kmew. Let's just say that I was a resourceful kid.. In the ensuing years with all the advances in information technology I'm sure it's gotten even easier to figure out who and where the CIA is.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56 10/6/2021 11:52:59 PM (No. 937561)
Honestly, I have yet to figure what advantage there is for any non-American to assist the USA. We treat our enemies better than our friends.
The Marines used to say "No better friend, no worse enemy."
Joe Biden and his cabal has the motto "No better enemy, no worse friend."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 10/7/2021 12:03:44 AM (No. 937563)
Further to #2's point, something that we all seem to forget is that more and more, the CIA, and the country as a whole, is being manned and run by products of the government indoctrination centers that used to be called schools. They come out ignorant and with a loathing for this country. Also, the CIA's institutional arrogance makes them blind to their own weaknesses.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JimBob 10/7/2021 1:05:41 AM (No. 937573)
I have the strong feeling that one of the foundational problems is an attitude of arrogant disregard at the very top, the Clinton, Obama, and now the Bite-me administrations. These people at the top would say things that revealed secrets that our adversaries would then use to hunt down American assets working undercover in various foreign countries. Not only did they not care, they laughed about it.
Any foreign person who would entrust their life to the CIA, these days, is a fool.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/7/2021 1:23:45 AM (No. 937580)
It is hard to say which is more ''troubling;'' it is the number of agent being rounded up, or that we aren't told who are ''our opponents''? I'm gonna circle back to you on that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
5 handicap 10/7/2021 5:59:31 AM (No. 937651)
It would not surprise me one Whit to learn that Brennan and his fellow travelers outed the America-loving agents; we are left with communist jihadis in the mold of Brennan and Clapper.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/7/2021 6:09:44 AM (No. 937657)
The CIA is focused on DC and getting Republicans. They no longer need overseas personnel.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GO3 10/7/2021 6:55:49 AM (No. 937678)
Well, it would help if forward based CIA folks weren’t on Fakebook. And I’m not joking.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/7/2021 7:48:18 AM (No. 937728)
Problem is, the whole world now knows how the CIA works as lapdogs of the State Department and anybody hanging around US Embassies or talking to Americans on the street or in restaurants is immediately suspect, The spy business is no longer secretive and effective.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Krause 10/7/2021 8:02:58 AM (No. 937739)
We need an investigation of John Brennan.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
downnout 10/7/2021 8:47:28 AM (No. 937784)
If it was a top secret cable why is the NYT reporting on it? Clearly, the CIA is leaking like a sieve.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
walcb 10/7/2021 9:19:30 AM (No. 937823)
Everything is going to "heck" and who do we have in charge to get things straightened out, a senile, incompetent, money grubbing, Chicom sympathizer.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Laotzu 10/7/2021 9:42:12 AM (No. 937859)
This is just a case study in the federal government general incompetence, isn't it?
Too big to succeed.
Driven by politics, woke thinking, and anti-American ideology.
Failures are never anybody's fault.
Why would the CIA be any different than the VA or the FBI?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol 10/7/2021 2:33:33 PM (No. 938164)
Clinton foundation , private server,huge foreign donations,evidence erased...Get the picture?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kumoan 10/7/2021 5:07:18 PM (No. 938272)
IIRC, a few years ago, the CIA suites, angered at the higher status and danger pay of the spooks, and being in charge of course, basically took over the spooks part. Hilarity ensued. Well, maybe some hillarity but also a total cratering of the usefulness aspect. And many died, even some suites.
Big money, small results but good sinecures for the America hating clones turned out en masse by academia.
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