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CIA-CHINA SPY WARS: Real and Imagined

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The Importance of Being Easy to Spot

It's a lot easier for the Chinese to learn English than it is for Americans who are not good at languages. I spent a year studying Vietnamese 47 weeks, 6 hours a day and got to level three. Every time I opened my mouth in Vietnam, I revealed myself as an intelligence officer. So that's a big challenge. And it's one reason this roll up of American assets in China was so stunning. Because it's so hard to operate there,. That is the ultimate hard target today.

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