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Danila:
AFAIK, you have no inside knowledge of CIA actions, agents, or operations.
It occurs to me that for someone without that knowledge, you are assuming much. This would be akin to us pronouncing the Mossad as ineffective because we have heard of few successes. In most cases, intel agencies do not boast or their exploits, or even acknowlege them. Frankly, we could probably be doing a better job, but we are still trying to reestablish an agency which was stripped 30 years ago and left to founder from 1992-2000. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and presume that they are doing the best they can.
I will say that one of the biggest foreign intel collectors in the US is the Israeli government. That is public knowledge.
TR
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