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Mark Mazzetti

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To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy

Ep 5: A Cyber Detente

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People were captured, they're killed. More than a dozen of the CIA informants were killed and executed. One was even, we're told, shot in a sort of courtyard of a government building in front of his colleagues as a sort of message for those who might be thinking about spying for the CIA. They didn't ultimately determine what had happened. how this breach had occurred.

To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy

Ep 5: A Cyber Detente

2179.91

There were some who thought that there was a mole in the CIA giving the Chinese the sources, or some thought that there was a technical problem, that the Chinese had hacked into the encrypted system the CIA uses to talk to its informants. There's no question that this was a huge setback for the CIA in terms of understanding what is going on in China.