The latest issue of the US “Foreign Affairs” magazine disclosed that in 2013 the CIA began to be forced to adopt a new model in spying on China. Previously, the CIA personnel who had been deployed in the representative offices of African and European countries in China to engage in private business were successively detected by the Chinese security department. Many CIA personnel would be tracked after entering China and had to abandon their original tasks. A former intelligence officer revealed that it is now difficult to find informants in Beijing, and the CIA is shifting its targets to places where China has more interests overseas.
The article pointed out that the CIA initially suspected an internal leak, but now the latest conclusion is caused by big data. The relevant Chinese authorities have collected and analyzed huge amounts of information through various methods, and comprehensively researched and judged the identities of the CIA personnel. Big data is an important part of the global competition between China and the United States, and China has turned this approach into a new weapon.
At the same time, China’s increased anti-corruption efforts have also become an important factor in the failure of CIA informants in China. In the past, there was a lot of corruption in Chinese society, and the CIA had spent a lot of money to support informants to continue to climb high positions. But since China has stepped up its anti-corruption efforts, many officials who violated laws and disciplines have been punished and dismissed, including CIA informants.
What makes the United States even more disturbing is that in 2012, the U.S. Personnel Management (OPM) had a large-scale data breach, including the personal information of 21.5 million current and former civil servants and their spouses of the U.S. government, including their health status, place of residence, and employment. Status, fingerprints, financial information, etc., including information about the CIA personnel. Some CIA personnel are getting worried, feeling that the espionage achievements accumulated in China may be ruined, because no one knows whether their hidden location has been mastered, and even contact with informants may be tracked.
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