For some odd reason, CIA informants are disappearing. I can’t help but wonder if some of the radicals that have been installed in his administration are ratting them out. This is not a conspiracy theory since I am merely giving it some thought and not giving it credence. There has to be a reason that a record number of informants are being arrested, killed, or merely never heard from again.
Whatever you think of the CIA, their ability to ferret out secrets is of vital importance to us. Had Biden not sent them home early from Afghanistan, we might have avoided killing 10 innocent people, including 7 children. I miss the good old days when Democratic presidents bombed Aspirin factories while only killing one innocent janitor. It has become so significant that the normally tight-lipped CIA even made this information semi-public.
Top American counterintelligence officials warned every C.I.A. 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, people familiar with the matter said.
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 — a closely held detail that counterintelligence officials typically do not share in such cables.
The cable highlighted the struggle the spy agency is having as it works to recruit spies around the world in difficult operating environments. In recent years, adversarial intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down the C.I.A.’s sources and in some cases turning them into double agents.
You have to wonder why they have made this situation public. One answer might be that the intelligence community wants to push back against Joe Biden for his ghastly deployment of the plan to evacuate from Afghanistan. You see, Joe Biden told Americans that no one advised him to leave troops in Afghanistan during the evacuation. Something that we now know, some generals, the CIA, and people in the American Embassy in Kabul did. He tried to throw them all under the bus.
It’s worth noting that the cable also exposed concerns over basic tradecraft in the agency:
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 — a problem the cable called placing “mission over security.”
