“The Chinese Are Actively Infiltrating Our Government” - John Kiriakou
In a Nutshell
John Kiriakou identifies China as America's primary foreign threat because it is economically acquiring global infrastructure—ports, factories, and allies—while the U.S. wastes trillions on ineffective weapons and overseas bases. He warns that Chinese and Israeli intelligence operations have deeply penetrated U.S. government agencies and defense contractors, using the classic recruitment cycle of monitoring, evaluation, development, and turning American officials into assets. Kiriakou stresses that U.S. debt and bureaucratic inefficiency are accelerating the very containment and isolation strategy China is pursuing.
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The geopolitical climate is extremely turbulent. When asked which foreign country raises most concern as an American, China is identified as the primary concern. The Chinese do not have a history of imperialism and do not invade other countries. While arguments about Tibet can be made, these are considered separate discussions. Apart from a brief conflict with North Vietnam and two border skirmishes with India, China does not attack other countries.
Instead of military invasion, China focuses on economic acquisition. They are buying countries rather than attacking them. A recent Onion headline captured this reality: "China is content to sit back and watch the United States destroy itself."
The United States spends between one trillion and one and a half trillion dollars annually on defense. America spends more than the next eight largest countries combined. Most of this spending is considered ineffective, with funds wasted on 210 bases in 144 different countries. Additional waste occurs through development of ineffective weapons systems like the F-35, which attempts to serve all purposes despite one size not fitting all. The retirement of the A-10 aircraft is noted as problematic, since the A-10 can fly low enough to practically touch the ground while firing missiles to destroy tanks, a capability the F-35 lacks.
China avoids such spending on weapons of war, instead using available funds to purchase ports, airports, factories, desalination plants, and other infrastructure globally. This economic approach buys them allies, isolates the United States, and provides cash that can be used to develop new technologies.
China's ultimate goal mirrors America's Cold War strategy toward the Soviet Union: containment and isolation in hopes that the United States will eventually collapse on its own. The United States has crossed the $40 trillion national debt threshold, making defense spending and interest on national debt the top two government expenditures.
A former Chief Information Officer at the Treasury Department who previously worked at Levels (a glucose monitoring device company) described the government's financial systems as resembling Frankenstein's monster. There is no single tax database, requiring searches across eight different databases with inconsistent data formats and incomplete information retention.
While the United States faces debt challenges, China actively engages in espionage against America and its allies. A highly secretive Chinese intelligence cell was uncovered in New York City, where Chinese intelligence officers threatened Chinese dissidents in the greater New York area with harm to relatives in China if they did not stop activities against the Beijing government.
China recruits Capitol Hill staff, hires FBI agents, and attempts to infiltrate the CIA. Intelligence officers are deployed in hard science PhD programs throughout the United States.
The biggest direct threat in terms of government penetration is identified as Israel. Israeli operations are conducted secretly, with agents located at common sites under the new National Defense Authorization Act at the Pentagon and CIA. Over the last 35 years, the FBI has identified 187 covert Israeli intelligence agents who have infiltrated or are infiltrating American defense contractors. Three weeks ago, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency sent a generic email to every officer warning that Israelis have significantly intensified intelligence operations and are attempting to infiltrate the agency.
Foreign infiltration follows a four-part asset acquisition cycle: monitoring, evaluation, development, and recruitment. During monitoring, targets are identified by their position. During evaluation, their access to desired information is assessed. During development, weaknesses are identified - ranging from gambling debts to family medical needs or educational expenses for children. Once a person proves willing to exchange information, typically for money, recruitment is finalized.
Most foreign assets within the U.S. government are not foreign nationals but Americans whose loyalties were switched after starting their careers.
The number of people who started careers in the CIA, Department of Homeland Security, or U.S. government while working for foreign entities from the beginning is assessed as probably zero. The Soviets successfully used this method in the United Kingdom, exemplified by Kim Philby and the Cambridge group.
Kim Philby and colleagues at Cambridge were recruited and mentored at university. Philby became head of counter-espionage at MI6 while maintaining ideological compatibility with the Soviets from his outspoken communist university days. His best friend and best man at his wedding was James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence at the CIA. Philby was actually a highly secretive KGB agent throughout this period.
When Philby's secret was exposed through a CIA source within the KGB who revealed he had been working with them since the 1930s, he was warned at a Christmas party at the British ambassador's residence in Lebanon. He climbed out a bathroom window and reached the Soviet embassy, where he was shipped to Moscow in a coffin. Days later, he appeared at a Moscow press conference declaring himself a communist who had always been a communist.
Philby lived the rest of his life in Moscow, becoming a lecturer at the KGB training center. His father, a doctor who became King Abdulaziz bin Saud's personal physician, received Saudi citizenship, divorced his British wife, married a Saudi woman, and started a second family named Philby in Saudi Arabia.
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