If russian assets got rolled up, it would be incredibly bad internal security if it was the same guy who sold out the Chinese assets. A huge failure of compartmentation to have one guy know 20+ assets in a country plus multiple assets in another hard target country.https://twitter.com/jgarnaut/status/954554874686980096 …
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Yeah. That’s the story they floating. But they say the tech was broken with the aid of a field officer who left in 2007 and it was sufficient to compromise assets in Russia ~5yrs later?
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There are more OSINT sources? Looking forward to it.
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find it interesting that the CI teams from both agencies butted heads on if the leak was humint or sigint & it may turn out it was both.
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From the NBC article the PRC CI team only had to inspect one asset’s laptop and from that they’d crack the whole system. If Lee gave up a single asset between 2007-2010 they’d have been able to do that. They wouldn’t need him anymore.
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Which would go some way towards explaining why he had such a shitty career path. First being fired from a company because they suspected him of spying for PRC, then working at a private company, then joining Estée Lauder for 2yr, then Christies as physical security.
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That’s a pretty rough career for someone with 20years in intel. I mean, a fucking tobacco company figured he was spying for china in the first year he was out of CIA?? The confusing thing is the time duration between events.
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PRC are rolling up the JTI investigations as soon as they hear of them, but it takes 3 years before they touch the HUMINT assets? And they don’t seem to be paying him much for this info (he was still working for a living)
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I'll say it again Americans suck at spying Skills needed for spying sorely lacking from our national makeup We should just forego wasting $ on it & push transparency & democracy movements w/free PR, tech & money
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