But China continued to get into – and out of – the secret vaults. The 1980’s cases should have prompted intense reviews, revamps, and lockdowns. weapons systems.Ĭheck your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. While the Agency was freshly reeling from the Chin case, it emerged that China also had stolen key technology on U.S. negotiating strategies when President Richard Nixon wanted to leverage a U.S.-China alliance regarding the Soviet Union. This gave immense advantage to the PRC, to include secretly showing Beijing the U.S. In 1986 it emerged that a Chinese mole, Larry Wu-Tai Chin, had spent 30 years deeply burrowed within the CIA. And, he added, Beijing eagerly scoops up the unguarded treasure, such as it did during the Cold War. as a nation that leaves its gold in the streets, Crowley told me. READ MORE about Chinese espionage against the United StatesĬhina views the U.S. When I knew him during the Cold War, Crowley was livid that our national secrets were being targeted by China – and that little was being done to guard the vaults.
An expert on the Soviet KGB, Crowley had been the CIA’s assistant director for clandestine operations. I first heard about this collective memory lapse in the mid-1980’s, via my old friend, Robert Crowley. Perhaps that will stop them from succumbing anew to the amnesia that has plagued our China-watchers for decades. When the “Gang of Eight” top leaders in Congress get their secret briefings on the Chinese spy balloon incident, they ought to be given a cache of memory assistance devices.
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