Dozens of central intelligence management agents (CIA) The United States were arrested, executed or otherwise compromised by foreign special services around the world. This is reported by New York Times with reference to sources.
We are talking about spies and informants of Americans and citizens of other countries. It is reported that the highest officials of the CIA put in Ukraine the headquarters of counterintelligence in different countries, shortcomings of training, underestimation of the skill of foreign agencies and a recruitment of personnel without due attention to potential risks.
CIA demanded from their officers to correct all the designated problems and improve the work of the agent in foreign countries. The exact number of compromised informants is not specified. However, Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran have become much more efficient to track and neutralize the CIA spies, as well as turn them into double agents.
According to the CIA, the failures of the informants led not only the skill of competitors, but also betrayal in the ranks of American counterintelligence. It became known that some of the employees of the department transmit the agents to foreign special services and violate the secrecy of communication channels.
In February 2020, Iran executed one of the CIA agents. The estimated spy named Amir Rakhimpur was sentenced to the highest Supreme Court of Iran. As reported, the man tried to convey the US intelligence information about the Iranian atomic program.