The Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward Current and former American officials described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades It set off a scramble in Washington’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies to contain the fallout, but investigators were bitterly divided over the cause
Some were convinced that a mole within the CIA had betrayed theUnited States Others believed that the Chinese had hacked the covertsystem the CIA used to communicate with its foreign sources Yearslater, that debate remains unresolved