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WASHINGTON -- Top American counterintelligence officials warned every CIA station and base around the world last week about troubling numbers of informants recruited from other countries to spy for the United States being captured or killed, people familiar with the matter said.
Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.
The memo identifies specific numbers of informants who were taken into custody or killed, though the exact number isn't fully known to the public, according to the New York Times.