Nothing new. All countries engage in espionage in one form
or another.
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> CNN's Mike Chenoy wrote a book about his China re****ting experience
> entitled "CHINA LIVE", in which he describe his connection with the
> CIA.
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> Book Review by Tom Grunfeld:
> http://csf.colorado.edu/bcas/otherart/grunfel1.htm
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> CHINA LIVE by Mike Chinoy of CNN
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> And finally there is one disturbing part of this story. Chinoy
> recounts his association with an American intelligence officer (pp.
> 104-105) with whom he forged a relation****p of sharing information.
> Chinoy admits discomfort about the liaison but explains it
> as a "part of a time-honored tradition," and excuses it by saying, "I
> felt I was getting the better half of the deal."
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> Time-honored it certainly is but there is no telling who benefitted
> most. Presumably, the information Chinoy received informed
> the re****ts that went out on the air and became public; what the
> intelligence officer got - and how it was used - will remain
> secret for many decades. And here is the rub; journalists gather
> information to inform the public, intelligence officers gather
> information to the detriment of the country they are spying on and
> this information could lead to the potential overthrow of
> governments, the killing of people the United States government
> doesn't like and who knows what other sorts of mayhem. This
> can only be a deeply uneven relation****p and Chinoy should be
> commended for being honest about it but castigated for having it
> in the first place.
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> yugaung:
> Free press do not represent objective re****ting.
> CIA has the backing of most American elite.
> Every elected US president, Democrate or Republican, have employed
> covert and extra-judiciary measures to sabortage countries that do
> not
> kowtow to US-UK alliance.
> It is also safe to infer that a large section of American + British
> people also considered it their national patriotic duty to bad mouth
> those countries that dare say "no" to UK US alliance.
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