The CIA sent a top-secret cable warning agents that too many informants were getting killed or turned into double agents, report says

Editor's note: If it was "top secret" how are we finding out about this? It is time for the CIA's US territorial operations to end. Put this monster back in its box and seal it tight. And it is no wonder too. The CIA never had the human-intelligence sophistication as the Russians or the British have had while the Israelis are born spies. 

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Source: Yahoo News

By Bill Bostock | October 6, 2021

The lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. USA-CIA-BRENNAN/ REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo 

• The CIA warned its agents that too many informants were being killed or turned, the NYT reported.

• In a memo, the CIA said lax vetting, hubris, and trusting informants too much were to blame.

• The memo said the CIA knows how many were killed but is unsure how many are now double agents.

The CIA sent a top-secret cable to its agents telling them to sharpen up as too many informants were getting killed or turned, The New York Times reported.

The note, which was sent last week to every CIA station around the world, noted how the CIA's counterintelligence mission center had analyzed dozens of cases in which informants had been killed, arrested, or turned in the last few years, The Times said.

The cable had disclosed the exact number of CIA informants killed by foreign powers, The Times said, without elaborating.

The CIA declined to comment.

The memo said that some informants had been turned into double agents to work against the CIA, but the exact number was not known, The Times reported.

The cable, The Times said, then set out a series of reasons as to why this was happening, citing: poor tradecraft, trusting sources too much, and playing down the skills of foreign intelligence agencies.

The cable also said that informant deaths had come from placing "mission over security," meaning informants were recruited without consideration of counterintelligence risks, The Times reported. The memo said that CIA case officers should properly vet sources while recruiting them, The Times reported.

Former CIA officers told The Times that recruiting informants was one major way that spies earn promotions, but that losing informants is not uncommon.

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