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Previous Facebook executive Frances Haugen said this week that the social media giant is struggling to counter foreign intelligence service operations on the platform, including China’s activities targeting the minority. Uighurs west Chinese.

Ms Haugen told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday: Chinese especially active Facebook and said he saw the platform’s weak protocols as a threat to US security.

“I have strong national security concerns about how it happened. Facebook operating today,” he said. Facebook‘s counter-espionage team with informants.

Under questioning by Alaska Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, Ms. Haugen said that the Chinese government was monitoring its activities. Facebook It included “monitoring… weak populations around the world,” referring to the efforts of Chinese intelligence and security agents to monitor and silence the Muslim minority. Uighurs, a group US government and human rights organizations say it faces mass oppression and genocide Chinese.

Iranian intelligence agents also use Facebook “For espionage,” he said.

“I mean, it’s definitely something that happens, and I believe Facebook“The consistent underemployment of counter-espionage, information operations and counter-terrorism teams is a national security issue,” Ms. Haugen said. The former product manager said he has been in contact with others in Congress involved in counterintelligence issues related to the issue.

said Mrs. Haugen Facebook executives are “very aware” that foreign intelligence services are abusing the social media giant’s site, which boasts about 3 billion users.

“And I believe the fact that Congress hasn’t gotten a report on exactly how many people are working on these things is unacceptable because you have a right to keep the American people safe,” he told the Senate Commerce subcommittee, which oversees consumer protection. product security and data security.

Ms. Haugen urged Congress to push Facebook “make changes” in its operation.

“In my time Facebook, first when working as chief product manager for civilian misinformation and later in counter-espionage, Facebook repeatedly encounters conflicts between their own interests and our security. Facebook It constantly resolves these conflicts in favor of its own interests,” he said.

A Facebook The official, who deals with national security issues, defended the company’s efforts to prevent spying services from exploiting the site.

Nathaniel Gleicher said Facebook Investigators monitor and routinely remove government and non-governmental organizations that target people over the Internet. Facebook.

“One reason the public knows the extent of such efforts is, Chinese, Iran and others for downloading them and making them public,” he said.

A Chinese intelligence operation involved cyber espionage. Uighurs He said that he mostly lived abroad in Turkey, Kazakhstan, USA, Syria, Australia, Canada and other states.


CIA issues warning about agent casualties

The CIA suffered one of its worst counterintelligence failures beginning in 2010, when a combination of dual agent and communications concessions resulted in the loss of all commissioned agents. ChineseHe is familiar with the casualties, according to US intelligence officials.

More than two dozen Chinese informants recruited by the agency were captured, imprisoned or executed, and at least one agent was shot in the courtyard of the Ministry of State Security in Beijing, officials said.

Most of the disappearances were attributed to Jerry Chung Shim Lee, a former CIA operations officer who had access to the identities of CIA informants. Chinese and Lee, who began working for Chinese intelligence in 2007, was convicted of conspiracy to spy. Chinese in 2019.

CIA agent networks were also believed to have been compromised by a security breach in the electronic system used to communicate covertly with agents.

The agency has remained silent about the losses and declined to comment on what is considered one of the worst disasters for an agency in the past grappling with repeated agent losses due to poor counterintelligence and security. During the Cold War, CIA and FBI traitors gave Moscow the names of all the agents recruited in the Soviet Union and Russia, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. weak security.

The New York Times confirmed this week’s disappearances of agents reporting on a covert cable sent to CIA stations. The newspaper, citing people familiar with the cable, said that last week the cable had warned all CIA stations about an irritating number of hired agents.

CIA counter-spies at the Counter-Intelligence Mission Center have studied dozens of cases of foreigners working for the agency, killed, arrested, imprisoned, or otherwise compromised in the past few years.

The cable also included a certain number of agents run by foreign intelligence services, who were not usually involved in the widely spread covert cables. The number was not disclosed.

According to the report, the CIA struggles to recruit spies around the world and noted that enemy spy services are in the United States. ChineseRussia and Pakistan go after CIA resources and in some cases turn them into double agents working against the agency.
Agency leaders on the cable blamed bad trade tools for failing to examine hired agents and underestimating the power of foreign counterintelligence agencies in uncovering spies. The report also accused CIA officers of rushing to recruit foreign whistleblowers without measuring the risks of counterintelligence, described as a “mission over security” problem.

The Times said CIA counterintelligence chief Sheetal T. Patel was the head of the mission center behind the alert to the stations.
Former CIA Deputy Director of Counterintelligence Mark Kelton declined to comment on Chinese agent casualties, but described Beijing’s spy operations against the United States as an “intelligence storm” not seen since the espionage attack by Soviet intelligence in the 1940s.

“As during the so-called Golden Age of Soviet espionage, Beijing’s ongoing intelligence campaign has gained nothing but public attention only when a spy is arrested or a high-profile cyberattack is detected,” he said.


Biden calls for travel ban to Chinese citizens

Four Republican House members are urging President Biden to file a criminal complaint. ChineseThe communist government for increasing US military provocations against its unofficial ally, Taiwan.

Four congressmen said Chinese Since January, more than 600 military aircraft have sent to areas near Taiwan, including more than 58 warplanes sent to the air defense zone in the south of the island last week in the largest-ever airstrike of its kind.
Members of parliament said in a letter to the president that the flights “intentionally destabilized the situation in the Taiwan Strait”.

“This is a reckless provocation by Beijing – clearly designed to trigger a defensive military response from Taipei as a pretext for a Chinese offensive,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter dated Oct.

The letter was signed by GOP Representatives Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee and W. Gregory Steube of Florida.

ChineseLeaders, military forces and state media have said they have stepped up the pressure on Taiwan since the chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan to test Mr. Biden’s resolve.

His critics say the president’s failure to act in response has discouraged Chinese officials. The only public response by the Biden administration so far has been the State Department’s weekend statement, which expressed its concerns about military provocations. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was also sent to Switzerland for hastily arranged talks with his Chinese counterpart to clear the air, the White House said on Tuesday.

It will take more than strongly worded tweets to deter ChineseDeputies said ‘the escalation of tension in the region’.

The Biden administration should rethink relations with Taiwan by officially resuming diplomatic relations with Taiwan. state Encourage Taiwan and its allies to do the same.

In the letter, it was stated that Chinese citizens who frequently travel to the United States should also be prevented from entering the country.

“Given that many Chinese officials and oligarchs routinely travel to the United States and send their children to prestigious US colleges and universities, closing this privilege would put surgical pressure on it. Chinese“Members of Congress are elites in response to their rulers’ destabilizing actions in the Taiwan Strait,” he said.

The administration should also increase the financial pressure on Beijing through greater import restrictions and economic sanctions.

Asked about China’s military provocations, Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House that he had spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan. “We agree that we will abide by the Taiwan agreement. This is us. We have made it clear that he must do nothing but abide by the agreement.”

WE-Chinese relations were built on communiqués that did not clearly define Taiwan’s status. The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act commits the United States to providing defensive weapons to Taiwan even while officially recognizing the Beijing regime. Chinesegovernment.

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