They are openly talking about a New Cold War.
CIA creates new mission center to counter China
The CIA is creating a new center focused exclusively on gathering intelligence about China and countering its espionage against the United States, another sign that senior U.S. officials are preparing for an all-encompassing, years-long struggle with Beijing.
Describing an effort that will enlist every corner of the spy agency, a senior CIA official drew comparisons to the Cold War fight against the Soviet Union, but said China was a more formidable and complicated rival given the size of its economy, which is completely entwined with that of the United States, and its own global reach.
Just as it did against the Soviets, the CIA will deploy more officers, linguists, technicians and specialists in countries around the world to gather intelligence and counter China’s interests, said the senior official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to more fully describe Burns’s remarks.
Former director John O. Brennan, who oversaw a sweeping reorganization of the CIA during the Obama administration, credited Burns for the new approach on China.
“If there is any country that deserves its own mission center, it is China, which has global ambitions and presents the greatest challenge to U.S. interests and to international order,” Brennan said.
Under Burns’s predecessor, Gina Haspel, the CIA began to come down from a wartime footing in which it was principally focused on penetrating and dismantling terrorist networks and began to return its focus to so-called hard targets, chiefly China, but also Russia, Iran and North Korea.
They are merging their Iran and North Korea centers back into their typical regional desks.
Asked why agency leaders believed China needed its own mission center when they were effectively shutting them down for two other hard targets, the senior official described China as unique, because no other single country requires work that stretches across all of the agency’s mission areas, including intelligence collectors, analysts, linguists and technologists.
They are shortening the security clearance process to six months from two years, and creating a “new technology fellowship program to allow private-sector experts to work for a year or two at the agency.”
A couple of years ago someone who claimed to be CIA complained that its harder to recruit becase too many of the younger generation have lived their entire lives online and can’t go undercover.
While the CIA has excelled throughout its history at crafting technology to spy on its adversaries, the rapid evolution of commercial technology has put the agency at a disadvantage. Today, through simple Internet searches, a rival intelligence service can sometimes identify CIA officers in their country and discover whom they might be trying to recruit as spies, current and former officials have said.
Ten years ago the entire CIA network in China was rolled up.
At the same time, the agency’s reliance on technology to communicate with its foreign sources may have helped identify them. About 10 years ago, Chinese and Iranian authorities penetrated the CIA’s covert communications system and managed to identify and round up agents in their countries, according to people familiar with the debacles.
They are telegraphing a three-pronged attack on China:
That new center will also encompass transnational threats such as climate change, disease outbreaks and humanitariancrises.
Climate change is an economic attack, humanitarianism is Color Revolutions in Hong Kong and among Uyghurs, and “disease outbreaks” should terrify everyone for the obvious reasons.
The focus on tradecraft comes amid warnings from CIA counterintelligence officials. In a cable dispatched to personnel around the world last week, the agency pointed out the number of agents who had been executed by foreign governments to persuade CIA officers to work harder to protect their sources from being discovered, according to people familiar with the matter.
It looks like the new generation has not adjusted to new technological and cultural realities, typical failure of a third generation organization.
This is such a non-starter.
The CIA has for years been ignoring this, and even if it was it couldn’t have stopped the offshoring of a vast swathe of our production base to our biggest rival. It couldn’t even get the Top Gun reboot to keep the Taiwan flag on Maverick’s jacket, because the Chinese hold much more sway today in Hollywood than even the spooks.
And the majority of the CIA, especially their leadership, and their puppets in the media, seem to think like that melon-headed moron John Brennan that Trump was bad because… they don’t really know. And Trump was the only guy I’ve heard on a national stage in 30 years to even talk about the trade deficit (not like it made much difference, except a few tariffs Wilbur Ross slapped together.) This country is run by bankers, and I’ve never heard a single bank CEO show any concern of the decline in the working class, our manufacturing competitiveness, or the wasteful wars. They just want to keep the floodgates open to prop up housing prices and keep writing mortgages.
And if we were actually serious about China, we’d get rid of their hundreds of thousands of spies in our universities and high tech corporations, which depend at this point on this group. The CIA is so unbelievably far past the point of “too little, too late.”
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Im sure the CIA braintrust are preparing viral releases to be blamed on China, computer hacks/supply-line shortages to be blamed on China, amd maybe even a phony terrorist attack or two to accuse them of. That we will commit an atrocity on Korea/Uyghurs/Taiwan surrepticiuosly might also be expected.
We are ruled by a wicked shadow government that wants to subjugate most of the world and would see 3/4 of it drop dead if they had their secret wishes come true.
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Reblogged this on muunyayo .
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Expect the proliferation of ‘China experts’.
Remember the ‘authorities on Islam & the Middle East’ (Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, etc.) who came to the surface two decades ago.
‘Gordon’ ‘Guthrie’ Chang should formally apply.
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Chang was John Bachelor’s go-to guy for “inside info” on the imminent fall of China, which he’s been predicting for about 20 years now.
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The racket of ‘geopolitical analysis’ has been mainstreaming Deep State narratives for the last thirty or so years. It gained speed with the introduction of mass internet connectivity. George Friedman (Stratfor), Peter Zeihan, Robert Kaplan, Jacob Shapiro, Philip Bobbit, Ian Bremmer, etc. The list goes on.
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I just though of the most far out China conspiracy theory ever: The US gave green light on Taiwan in exchange for China keeping silent about Corona being released by the US on purpose. So if China invades, and if the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company isn’t immediately nuked by the US after the first landing craft lands, that theory will be proven true.
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@guest
This thread is quite interesting. Far better than most “Civil War” scenarios. They have fired all the people who won’t take the shot, and now literal critical infrastructure is collapsing.
The Southwest pilots are in the middle of a sick-out strike over the mandates.
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Well, I think Biden, as well as many politicians on both sides of the aisle in Congress are hopelessly compromised as well, as our sorry excuse for General Miley. I think an audit done on the families, friends and relatives of our military and politicians (who all worked in tandem to thwart Trump) would prove that they all have their little Hunters making money off of China.
And, much as I hate to admit this, it would not surprise me, one iota, that our government was well aware of Fauci’s secret Gain of Function viral research in China and knows the world will blame the USA if it ever got out.
We have no real interest in defending Taiwan. And, I honestly think, that it is a matter of time Taiwan voluntarily rejoins China, because China will be the new hegemon on the block and probably hold the reserve currency. I don’t know why China doesn’t just focus on making its own economy more attractive to the people of Taiwan and encourage a voluntary union.
But yeah, I’m sure that China has plenty of blackmail on the US Government. Or why was Afghanistan, along with Bagram AFB and all the military equipment, as well as Afghanistan handed to China on a silver platter with nothing given in return?
If China did not have the evidence that could see Americans, as well as the rest of the world who lost people to Co-Vid, string every Washington bureaucrat from every lamppost imaginable, it would stand to reason that something would be negotiated in return, like, in exchange for Afghanistan and Taiwan, China gives up any claims to property they acquired in the United States.
Same with the Russians, Biden is letting them sell their oil to Europe and got nothing in return, like those uranium fields, Hillary sold them?
What other reason could it be but blackmail?
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