Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence

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The evidence against her had been faked, a CIA source told Bamford anonymously. “They [FBI] want to generate headlines. They don’t care if the information is credible or not… Bank robbers, kidnappers, fraud, embezzlement, they’re very good at it. But when it gets into the espionage realm, they’re rank amateurs. I feel sorry for Butina; she got caught up in this whole vortex.” This is no scoop; it isn’t newsworthy. For instance, it is certainly true that the Martin case — as with any malicious insider operating undetected within a secret organization — was demonstrative of gaps in NSA’s insider threat program.And the theft of cyber tools by Shadow Brokers could not have occurred had NSA sufficiently protected them.

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For instance, one wonders whether the pointed criticism he levels at a named FBI agent working on the Martin case would have been included in this book, if that agent had not earlier been involved in the investigation of accused NSA leaker Thomas Drake. James Bamford . . . rips away the secrecy with [ The Puzzle Palace]. There have been glimpses inside the N.S.A. before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency. The quality and depth of Mr. Bamford's research are remarkable . . . Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director's safe. In some sections it appears that he may even have that . . . By revealing the scope and opening up the operations of the N.S.A. without giving away its most sensitive secrets, Mr. Bamford has performed an important public service with this impressive book. New York Times Book Review Philip Taubman Although the FBI has legal charge of the investigation of cases covered by the Espionage Act, responsibility for the implementation of CI functions, rests with individual agencies in accord with their missions and mandates. This is not the most efficient structure.But the establishment of anything resembling a surveillance state sufficiently robust to obviate all the threats the author cites being anathema to our values, we have rightly opted to prioritize respect for individual rights over efficiency in the way we deal with actual and potential CI threats.high level meeting with Trump - See The Mad Hatter, who also connects with Maria.. Disagree that the author is discursive. Thank you for reading. If Bamford is NOT believable as a reporter of fact, then one has to wonder why he has written as he has. Is he the dupe of some particularly nefarious practitioners of the intelligence art? This would certain lead down a path to conspiracy theories of multiple levels and for twisted reasons. Are there people who would do so? Certainly, but it is unlikely they could do so repeatedly with any level of success at pulling the wool over everybody's eyes. How many successful ops does it take to keep people in the dark about most of this? It's not hard to imagine we are frequently thus deluded, but not likely day after day, year after year. Re the Israeli spying, I had not heard any of the story of Arnon Milchan's various nefarious actions before. The author’s use of leaked material to try to show the ineffectiveness of American CI in preventing leaks is oddly effective.But there is much irony — and not a little hypocrisy —inherent in an author whose career rests so heavily upon leaking, damning a practice so injurious to American CI that he has done so much to encourage.As with his earlier books on the NSA, the author relies heavily upon leakers for the material that is contained in his book. So a 90/7/3 indicates it has a 90% chance of mission success, this is not a lie, nor is the chance of failure but the 3% chance of being caught captured is a significant understatement.

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Frankly, not a joy to read, but I learned a great deal from it about the tragic decline of democracy in the USA. I mean I knew that before by Bamford has some very interesting if excruciatingly detailed stories.

In 1961, at the age of twenty-six, David moved to Los Angeles, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and six years later joined the CIA in an entry-level capacity, possibly as a translator. But in the late 1960s the United States was in the middle of its desperate war with North Vietnam, which was aided by China. As a result, a throng of new recruits were continuously making their way to Camp Perry, known as "The Farm," the CIA's boot camp for spies, near Williamsburg, Virginia. Bamford concludes the book with an apology for the prosecution of Butina from his FBI source, Frank Figliuzzi, former head of the Bureau’s counterintelligence division. “I am troubled and hope there is a full inquiry,” Figliuzzi said. “The question is whether this is conveniwent ineptitude or something far deeper…there is the possibility [that] the assertions were so irresponsible that they [FBI agents, Justice Department prosecutors] that they were acting ‘outside the scope’”. Spyfail is disappointing. Bamford's reputation and the title of the book suggest a thoroughly investigated account of the US intelligence community's failures to catch some of the most notorious spies in US history, such as Ames and Hanssen and, implicitly, how the digital age of Snowden and Manning have introduced new failures and challenges. I had expected Bamford to tie these different generations of counterintelligence failures together to ultimately argue that the US has done an inadequate job of learning from the failures and lessons of these previous cases, and others, and recommend a few courses of action.

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It took many many hours of testing because I had to play hundreds of missions manually to get the stats. The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China," it says, "are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States. Confronting this threat is the FBI's top counterintelligence priority." Like most Explorers, he’s also probably had a somewhat thankless, frustrating experience. Ironically, the book’s uneven initial reception is evidence of its value. You won’t find it reviewed in many leading mainstream publications — unlike Bamford’s previous investigations. Nor has he been interviewed on many mainstream media — despite the fact that SpyGlass breaks new ground not only on important spy tales, but on a whole system of self-blinding. But “hawks” who have demanded that the UK take a harder line on China have become frustrated in recent months that Rishi Sunak has instead sought to boost economic ties between the two countries and soften criticism of China’s human rights and other abuses.There have been cases where due to a bug the percentage isn't exact even with infinite attempts. Usually it's confirmation bias, but testing is always an option if one wants to demonstrate something beyond that. Bamford also knows nothing of the Arab-Israeli conflicts in Washington and in the Middle East – or of the way in which those conflicts were fought inside the CIA’s analytical organization, as well as on the operational side, and between the Agency and the FBI. Even before getting to the first actual “Spy Fail,” we have Sony execs going racist on Obama in text messages, and worse, they’re Jewish Sony execs.