Oct 16, 2015

Negative space

Sometimes, the lack of information is valuable information.

The Washington Post reports that according to unnamed current and former US officials, the CIA pulled "a number of officers" from the US Embassy in Beijing as a precautionary measure following the breach — precisely because their names would not appear in State Department personnel files believed to have been obtained by Chinese intelligence operatives. - source

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