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CIA-CHINA SPY WARS: Real and Imagined

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The Rise and Fall of the CIA

Jeffrey Toobin: The CIA assumed China was recruiting heavily in the Chinese American overseas Chinese community. He says when a former translator defected, he also revealed what Chinese tradecraft was. In 2020, an FBI official said the FBI was opening a new Chinese counterintelligence case twice a day; that's my mind boggling, writes Toobin. "The MSS got more serious about its tradecraft" and went after Americans as well, to his surprise.

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