Heat map Belt and Road”-China’s trillion-dollar infrastructure and influence initiative-“and you’d see our activity happening. “We can’t get to them in Beijing, but can in Djibouti. The CIA had been taking advantage of China’s own growing presence overseas to meet or recruit sources, according to one of these former officials. spy agencies’ own sophisticated technical countersurveillance capabilities. side to know they had identified the CIA operatives, disrupting their missions other times, however, it was much more subtle and only detected through U.S. intelligence officials speculated that the Chinese wanted the U.S. Sometimes, the surveillance was so overt that U.S. The surveillance by Chinese operatives began in some cases as soon as the CIA officers had cleared passport control. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence, according to three former U.S.

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