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05.09.18Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China
NPR
An ex-CIA officer arrested in January at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport has been charged with conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of China years after FBI agents turned up notebooks containing classified information in a search of his hotel...
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02.05.18Mystery of Suspected China-CIA Spy Draws Lawmaker Scrutiny
Politico
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and other senior members of Congress are asking why the FBI took more than five years to arrest former CIA China hand Jerry Chun Shing Lee after it first became suspicious of him.
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01.31.18CIA Chief Says China ‘as Big a Threat to US’ as Russia
BBC
Chinese efforts to exert covert influence over the West are just as concerning as Russian subversion, the director of the CIA has said.
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01.17.18Ex-C.I.A. Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested
New York Times
A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The collapse of the spy network was one of the American...
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11.07.17Ex-Spy on What His CIA Experience Taught Him about China
NPR
Randy Phillips spent 28 years with the CIA, most recently serving as the chief CIA representative in China. He talks about what leverage the U.S. has when it comes to managing China's ambitions.
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10.11.17China Grabbed American as Spy Wars Flare
Politico
The sun was setting over Chengdu when they grabbed the American. It was January 2016. The U.S. official had been working out of the American consulate in the central Chinese metropolis of more than 10 million. He may not have seen the plainclothes...
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05.22.17Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
New York Times
The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.
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04.17.17Changing Trump Views toward Russia, China Worry Some Allie
ABC
Once soft on Russia and hard on China, President Donald Trump rapidly reversed course in the last weeks, concluding there’s more business to be done with Beijing than with Moscow.
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03.09.17China Expresses Concern at Revelations in Wikileaks Dump of Hacked CIA Data
Reuters
China expressed concern on Thursday over revelations in a trove of data released by Wikileaks purporting to show that the CIA can hack all manner of devices, including those made by Chinese companies.
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09.30.15U.S. Pulls Spies from China After Hack
CNN
The U.S. suspects that Chinese hackers were behind the breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the fingerprints of 5.6 million government employees.
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07.22.15China Feared CIA Worked with Sheldon Adelson's Casinos to Bust Officials
Guardian
China fears that casinos owned by Sheldon Adelson were used by the CIA to blackmail Chinese officials.
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06.16.15Former CIA Chief Says Government Data Breach Could Help China Recruit Spies
Wall Street Journal
Retired Gen. Michael Hayden calls records a ‘legitimate foreign intelligence target’.
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04.09.13Tibet: The CIA’s Cancelled War
from New York Review of Books
For much of the past century, U.S. relations with Tibet have been characterized by kowtowing to the Chinese and hollow good wishes for the Dalai Lama. As early as 1908, William Rockhill, a U.S. diplomat, advised the Thirteenth Dalai Lama that “close...
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06.10.99The Dalai Lama on Succession and on the CIA
from New York Review of Books
This year is the fortieth anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet into Indian exile. He is sixty-five and some day even god-kings must die. But in the eyes of Tibetans he is also the fourteenth incarnation of the first Dalai Lama, who died...