CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants

CIA has lost dozens of agents: What needs to happen in order to stop it?

CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — The nation’s most secretive agency is running short on agents. According to The New York Times, top counterintelligence officials sent a memo to every CIA station worldwide, warning that dozens of CIA informants have been killed, arrested, or compromised in the last several years. Chad Sweet, former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, says he’s not surprised to hear this news. The increasing danger to agent…

Countries Like China, Pakistan Hunting Down CIA's Informants: Report

US counterintelligence officials are warning CIA stations around the world about "troubling" numbers of informants recruited from other nations to spy for America being captured or killed, according to a media report.

NYT report: Rival agencies killed, captured, busted dozens of CIA spies

"Adversarial intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran, and Pakistan have been hunting down CIA's sources and in some cases turning them into double agents," says New York Times, citing a "top secret" cable.

The CIA Blames Incompetence for Losing Dozens of Agents but Is That the Real Story?

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CIA admits China, Pakistan intelligence services hunting down informants: Report

The report claims that the cable has provided the specific number of informants who were executed by adversarial intelligence agencies in the last few years.

The Supreme Court confronts the CIA’s worst-kept secret

The Supreme Court will hear a case about a man who was falsely accused of being a member of al-Qaeda and tortured by the CIA. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesCan America’s legacy of torture be a “state secret” if it isn’t even a secret?United States v. Zubaydah, which the Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday, is a case about a man who was tortured by the CIA over an intelligence failure. It’s also a case about one of the US intelligence communit…