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Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html
China crippled CIA by killing US sources, says New York Times
Up to 20 CIA informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times reports, damaging US information-gathering in the country for years.
It is not clear whether the CIA was hacked or whether a mole helped the Chinese to identify the agents, officials told the paper.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39989142
The CIA falsely believed it was 'invincible' in China — here's how its spies were reportedly discovered and killed in one of the biggest blows to the agency
"When things started going bad, they went bad fast."
US intelligence officials cited in the report are now placing the lion's share of the blame on what one official called a "f- up" communications system used between spies and their handlers.
This internet-based system, brought over from operations in the Middle East, was taken to China under the assumption that it could not be breached and made the CIA "invincible," Foreign Policy reported.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-found-cia-spies-leak-2018-8