Top American counterintelligence officials sent a memo that warned every CIA station around the world about a troubling number of intelligence assets who had been killed, disappeared, or captured in recent years. The memo actually gave a specific number of agents — a highly unusual inclusion but one that demonstrates the seriousness of the situation.
The CIA is an agency in transition with the focus of intelligence moving from rooting out terrorism in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan to concentrating on our enemies in Russia and China. But the loss of agents is particularly troubling because there doesn’t seem to be a major intelligence leak. The problem is with the agents themselves.-
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The CIA has been weak on HumInt for decades.
If the agents are lacking in training, then the officers are derelict in that duty. In the words of the character Mary Patricia Foley from the Clancy book, "Cardinal of the Kremlin," "It's not a matter of whether you're paranoid or not. It's a matter of whether you're paranoid enough." Spying is not a game, it's a deadly endeavor to make change in the regime under which you are forced to live.