CIA Spy Op in South China Sea goes bad (military, leader, news)

[NJ Brazen_3133]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-cia-s...090041816.html

This happened a while ago, but the story just getting out. Apparently all they going to do is sail up close to some alleged chinese installation and take a peek. They pretending to be a yacht crew delivering a vessel to Japan. Seriously, is that all it takes? They just pretend to be some civilians, and get as close as they can. If they get stopped by guards well, then yes, the chinese have an installations there.

One of the operatives is a Merchant Marine grad. Is that even military? If they really wanted to know if installation there, just sail a warship and see what response they get. If they run into a chinese warship then yeh, the chinese are up to something fishy. If govt wants to know more details, wont they have to send in more highly trained, and heavily armed team?

The Op goes sideways because of a storm.

Quote from article:

"There was a lot of pressure to do ops,” a former CIA operations officer explained. “They just didn’t have to die. They did a mission that you didn’t have to do, and Bob was such a bad leader. A lot of officers blame Kandra for the **** that happened in the Pacific.”

His blemishes and mistakes were glossed over because he was senior intelligence staff when he ran the Special Activities Division, according to the former operations officer."

[Suburban_Guy]

I read that yesterday, fascinating article.

Clearly the operative felt external pressure to go ahead with the mission despite there being a very good chance their ship would directly hit the storm. That most definitely is due to the poor leadership of Bob Kandra, the Special Activities Division head at the time of this incident.

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

I read that yesterday, fascinating article.

Clearly the operative felt external pressure to go ahead with the mission despite there being a very good chance their ship would directly hit the storm. That most definitely is due to the poor leadership of Bob Kandra, the Special Activities Division head at the time of this incident.

I wonder what the chinese have there or how it is. Is it undeniably an installation, or more like something hidden in plain site like a 4-star resort that is just a cover for a missile base (I watch a lot of James Bond).

If is undeniable installation, then surely navy can just go around and explore. They have as much right to be there as Chinese. If Chinese stop us, and tell to go no further, then yes something is obviously there, and we should demand to inspect, and assume the worst.

I am assuming from the article, the Island does not already belong to the Chinese.