WASHINGTON–Amid the alarming reports that China could have planted a mole within the Central Intelligence Agency for years who was just recently caught, the CIA chief has vowed to ramp up the agency’s counterintelligence efforts to catch spies from U.S. adversaries that are trying to penetrate inside the nation’s intelligence community.
Just last week, the FBI arrested Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a 53-year-old former CIA officer who is suspected of leaking top-secret intelligence to China. While the exact details of Lee’s leaks have yet to be revealed, some reports speculated that he could have betrayed more than a dozen CIA informants in China around 2010 and 2011, many of whom were subsequently executed by the Chinese regime.
