China’s state-run media declares reports that the government killed CIA sources as ‘a sweeping victory’
Chinese state media editorial has ‘applauded’ the killings of CIA agents in China
The opinion piece published today declared the report a ‘sweeping victory’
Chinese government killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources in the country
They were killed or jailed from 2010 to 2012 and hobbled US spying operations
By SOPHIE WILLIAMS
DailyMail.com
22 May 2017
Chinese state-run media has declared reports that the government killed CIA sources as ‘a sweeping victory.
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Communist mouth piece the Global Times applauded the killings in an editorial published today.
The New York Times reported that between 18 and 20 sources for the Central Intelligence Agency were jailed and killed from 2010 to 2012.
The report revealed that the Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA over a two-year-period.
One source was shot and killed in front of a government building in China, three officials told the newspaper, saying that it was designed as a message to warn others about working with Washington.
Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the CIA who betrayed the sources or whether the Chinese hacked the CIA’s covert communications system.
The editorial in the Global Times said: ‘If CIA spying operations in China were crippled, the US has nothing to be proud of.
‘If this article is telling the truth, we would like to applaud China’s anti-espionage activities. Not only was the CIA’s spy network dismantled, but Washington had no idea what happened and which part of the spy network had gone wrong.
It can be taken as a sweeping victory.’
However it also said that the authenticity of the New York Times’ report remains unknown.
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