The intelligence service has always been a functional department of the US government that is proud. But this department performed particularly badly in the later wars in Afghanistan, especially in the "last revenge" of the US military, and the misinformation turned the "revenge" of the United States into a massacre of civilians. Now, the US media has exposed a "top secret telegram" from the CIA, indicating that its informants and espionage techniques are bad.
According to the US media "New York Times" reported on the 5th, a "top secret telegram" was transmitted between overseas branches of the CIA. Senior CIA officials said in a cable that intelligence services face the fatal problem of a shortage of spies, with a massive loss of recruited U.S. spies and dozens of foreign spies arrested or killed in recent years.
"In the recent past, we have been subjected to poor espionage technology, misassessing the security level of informants, underestimating the capabilities of other countries' intelligence services, and excessive trust in intelligence sources, and now we are in a dangerous situation where mission first and security second." Top-secret cables said that the current situation of the CIA is not optimistic, the CIA's foreign intelligence personnel are in a relatively tempting environment, under the "corrosion" of Russia and Pakistan, US intelligence personnel have become "double agents".
The problems pointed out in the "top secret cable" have long existed, and several former CIA officials have said that there are many things to prove this argument - that the task is greater than security. For CIA agents, as long as they can develop informants, it means that they can be promoted, and as for the safety and reliability of informants, no one will care at all.
At the same time, the US media stressed that as a "top secret telegram" of the highest intelligence department, it is impossible to spread theory to the outside world, and it can only be disseminated to a limited extent. "But now the exposure of top-secret cables also shows the problems that the CIA is facing, and the secrecy is extremely poor."
Moreover, the events told in this "top secret telegram" are also extraordinary, and should be limited by multiple secrecy mechanisms. People familiar with the matter said that the CIA telegraphed its own account of the killing or arrest of foreign intelligence agents, compiling these cases into a training manual for agents. At the same time, the CIA also listed in the telegram which American agents were killed by hostile intelligence groups.
The New York Times also said that the CIA also stressed in the cable how difficult it is to recruit foreigners as spies, "As you can see, countries such as Russia and Pakistan have been active in recent years, and some of our less determined informants are no longer reliable." They have been developed into double agents by the above countries, giving us some false and worthless intelligence. ”
For the CIA's "unreliability", the New York Times gave its own views, which the newspaper believes is because "the enemy is strong and we are weak." With the application of modern technologies such as facial recognition and artificial intelligence, it is very easy for other countries to monitor U.S. intelligence personnel in their own countries. Once the US intelligence personnel have a flaw in the process of contact with the informant, it is very easy to expose the identity of the informant.
At the same time, the CIA is too casual in developing informants, and some intelligence officers regard the development of informants as a channel for promotion, and the number of informants can determine the career of intelligence personnel. But unlike counterintelligence operations, not many CIA personnel are willing to do so, even if they distinguish whether informants are working for the United States, they will not provide any help in their careers.
Like the suicide attacks that preceded them at CIA bases. At the time, C.I.A. agents tried to persuade a Jordanian doctor to become their informant" to "go undercover" to al-Qaida, but in fact the Jordanian doctor became an anti-American shortly after joining al-Qaida.
The Jordanian doctor used his identity as a CIA informant to enter the CIA base without searching, and eventually launched a suicide attack on the base, killing 7 CIA agents.