Event Details

January 01, 2010

Description

CIA penetration of the SVR preventing use of sleeper network.

Participants (2)

Name Type Mentions
CIA person 2 View Entity
SVR organization 102 View Entity

Source Documents (2)

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Narrative Report / Book Excerpt / Congressional Document
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This document appears to be a page from a book or detailed report (possibly provided to the House Oversight Committee) discussing US intelligence failures related to the Edward Snowden leaks. It details the NSA's offensive cyber strategy, the vulnerability exposed by Snowden at the National Threat Operations Center in Hawaii, and General Michael Hayden's assessment that the leaks significantly aided Chinese and Russian intelligence capabilities.

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Book Page / Government Production Document • 1.66 MB
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This document is page 193 of a book (likely 'How America Lost Its Secrets' by Edward Jay Epstein, based on the ISBN in the footer) included in House Oversight Committee records. The text discusses the NSA's offensive intelligence strategy, the 2010 CIA penetration of the Russian SVR, and the catastrophic failure caused by Edward Snowden's theft of secret source lists. It details how Snowden fled to China and Russia, potentially upending U.S. intelligence capabilities, and references subsequent cyber breaches of U.S. networks in 2014 and 2015.

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Event Metadata

Type
Unknown
Location
Russia/US
Significance Score
5/10
Participants
2
Source Documents
2
Extracted
2025-11-19 18:30

Additional Data

Source
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020303.jpg
Date String
2010

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