During the years of 2010 and 2012, while Diane Feinstein was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and had a spy for China as her office manager, Russell Lowe, China was able to jail or kill 20 CIA agents or sources.
It was the biggest massacre of assets since Alden Ames was spying for Russia and the most in any 3 year period. That doesn’t mean that Lowe was responsible, but it is odd that the purge happened exactly at the time Feinstein was chair and had so much information available to her.
Business Insider reported:
China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the Central Intelligence Agency who betrayed the sources or whether the Chinese hacked the CIA’s covert communications system, the newspaper reported, citing current and former U.S. officials.
The Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA from 2010 through 2012, dismantling a network that was years in the making, the newspaper reported.
One was shot and killed in front of a government building in China, three officials told the Times, saying that was designed as a message to others about working with Washington.
The breach was considered particularly damaging, with the number of assets lost rivaling those in the Soviet Union and Russia who perished after information passed to Moscow by spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, the report said. Ames was active as a spy in the 1980s and Hanssen from 1979 to 2001.
The CIA declined to comment when asked about the Times report on Saturday.
Was Feinstein responsible for the purge? The people may never know because intelligence cannot say how the Chinese discovered who were working for the US, but it does show there is a possibility there.