America's spies are in danger.. 4 countries hacked the "CIA" communications and liquidate their clients

The CIA has admitted that too many informants are being killed, captured, or handed a top-secret memo to their spies all over the world.

An unusual cable, which was sent to all CIA stations and bases, said the counterintelligence center had analyzed dozens of cases over the past several years.

The memo mentioned an exact number of informants who were killed, confidential information not usually shared in such cables, according to the New York Times.

Former officials also revealed that China and Iran hacked the agency's secret communications system.

The memo reprimands spies for miswriting, over-trusting sources, disparaging foreign intelligence agencies and "putting the mission above security" by moving too quickly and not paying enough attention to potential risks.

Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have all succeeded in hunting down informers in recent years - and in some cases turning them into double agents.

In Iran and China, some intelligence officials believe that American spies provided information to adversary agencies that could have helped expose informants.

Competing counterintelligence agencies use biometric scans, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and hacking tools to track CIA officers to discover their sources.

The CIA has been preoccupied over the past two decades with terrorist threats, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

But collecting old intelligence is now once again central to the CIA's mission as tensions with China and Russia grow.

Monica Elfriede Witt, a former Air Force sergeant who defected to Iran, was charged with providing information to Tehran in 2019. The Iranians took advantage of her knowledge once they decided she could be trusted.

In 2019, former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee was sentenced to 19 years in prison for providing secrets to the Chinese government, which they then used to arrest and execute at least 20 fellow agents.

US officials suspect that China shared information that Lee gave to Russia, which it used to expose, arrest, and kill American spies.

These findings led the CIA to temporarily shut down human espionage in China and reassess how it communicates with intelligence assets around the world.

In 2020, Iranian forces executed Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, accused of reporting on the movements of that country's forces in Syria on behalf of the United States and Israel.

He was also accused of spying on Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian national hero who was killed in a US drone strike earlier in 2020.

Iran has found Mousavi Majd, the former translator, guilty of receiving money from both the CIA and Israel's Mossad. 

"No one ultimately takes responsibility when things go south with an agent," said Douglas London, a former activist with the agency.

“Sometimes there are things that are out of our control but there are also instances of negligence and negligence and people in higher positions never take responsibility.”

The agency will also look to learn more about Pakistan's relations with the Taliban now that the US-backed government in Afghanistan has collapsed.

Officials said the letters were a way to get intelligence officers to get more serious about counterintelligence.

A CIA spokeswoman declined to comment on the memo.

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