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The CIA admitted that this method imitated what America had done when it was involved in the Cold War with the Soviet Union in the past.
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“During the Cold War, both at the State Department and at the CIA, we appropriately deployed Soviet specialists to help ensure that we could compete effectively,” Burns said in an interview Thursday with NPR which was launched Friday (23/7/2021).
“I think the same is true and this is one of the things I’m exploring right now, to deploy Chinese specialists—whether it’s operations officers, analysts, technologists too—to make us more effective in that competition, in the competition on the ground as well,” continued Burns.
Burns said China is the biggest geopolitical challenge for the US in the 21st century, and that the technology sector is the biggest area of competition between the two countries.
Burns adds China’s advanced technical surveillance capabilities such as smart cities [kota pintar] has kept him in front of China’s intelligence services and conducting espionage abroad has become much more complicated.
In response, Burns said, the CIA also had to change its own expertise.
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In his interview, the CIA boss also accused Russia of being behind the so-called “Havana syndrome” attacks that affected the health of US diplomats in Cuba. However, this accusation was not accompanied by any evidence.
“It could be, but I honestly can’t—I don’t want to suggest until we can draw a more definitive conclusion who it is. But there are possibilities,” Burns said when asked if Russia was behind the “Havana syndrome” attacks.
Over the years, similar accusations against Russia of this type of attack have appeared in the American media from time to time, which Moscow has repeatedly denied.
In 2017, the Russian Foreign Ministry deemed the US accusations completely absurd and strange.
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