Opinion by William Neuheisel - Responsible Statecraft -- October 18, 2022
The Agency’s carelessness in protecting its own agents reveals the cynicism of the US government’s treatment of whistleblowers.
Reuters recently published new reporting on the story of one of the worst U.S. intelligence failures in decades. From approximately 2010 to 2013, dozens of CIA informants in China, Iran, and elsewhere were rounded up and executed, jailed, or flipped to double agents. In Iran and China, almost the entirety of the CIA’s network in two of its top-priority countries are reported to have been exposed.