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A glaring spotlight has been cast on U.S. intelligence operations in China in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and how exactly the novel pathogen originated in the city of Wuhan.

While China’s official narrative is that the disease was born out of a wet market in the city, sources within the U.S. intelligence community are now examining the theory that the origin of the pandemic stemmed from a laboratory — not out of malicious intent, but from an accident while undertaking dangerous virus research to keep up with the United States. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin U.S. intel is investigating the origins.

As you pray about relations with China, ask God to show you how to pray about the hidden assets who are risking their lives to protect our’s.

Intelligence experts stress that the attempt to usurp the U.S. as the global superpower is at the heart of their brutal dismantling of intelligence operations within the country. But American intel has been working from a disadvantage ever since several operatives’ covers were blown over the last decade, leading to a purge by Beijing.

Reports emerged in 2017 that China had dealt a huge blow to the CIA’s infrastructure within its borders. From 2010 through to around 2013, according to The New York Times, more than a dozen carefully curated assets in China were jailed or killed — with one even brazenly shot outside a government building as a perceived warning to others.

“It was devastating. The setback probably delayed the U.S. national security community from fully comprehending Beijing’s move toward a more oppressive and assertive policy,” Patrick Cronin, Asia-Pacific security chair for the Hudson Institute, told Fox News. “The gap in a sharper understanding of the Chinese Communist Party’s true aims bought it more time to enact greater information suppression at home and more aggressive political warfare abroad.”

The moves were deemed one of the worst in the agency’s modern history.

“We didn’t lose just a single spy. We lost entire networks,” said Dean Cheng, senior research fellow and lead China expert at the Heritage Foundation. “That means that many of the various people who worked for us were all rolled up, which, in turn, would have devastated the credibility of our own agency and affected our ability to recruit new people.”

According to multiple former intelligence officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation, the blow was felt hard — and some have questioned whether U.S. intelligence in the country ever adequately recovered.

“This was a well-planned, multifaceted strategic operation. First, blind your adversary. In this case, collect intelligence by hacking or other means to identify operatives. Then, remove those human assets or sources by imprisonment or execution. This is far more subtle than blinding our satellites, which would be an overt act of war,” explained one former U.S. Army intelligence leader. “The best intelligence is Human Intelligence, HUMINT, which comes from recruited assets or ‘agents.’ That is confirmed or denied by other collection such as IMINT (imagery) or SIGINT (signals collection).”

The steady exodus of sources, coupled with the drying up of information from inside, subsequently spurred a joint FBI/CIA investigation code-named Honey Badger, which revealed the devastating fallout. It remains unclear if the breach was ignited by a mole – or moles – within the CIA’s China scope, or by a high-level hacking that compromised insiders — or a combination of both.

“Our intelligence gaps in China are large enough to drive a truck through, especially when it involves the biggest challenge in intel collection: elite politics,” noted Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at the Asia Society who is writing a book on Beijing’s influence in America. “What’s the relationship between Chairman Xi (Jinping) and the men who run the Central Military Commission, the body that oversees the Party’s military? How much control does Xi have over the Politburo Standing Committee, whose seven members, Xi included, run China? We know astonishingly little about the personalities and power politics at the top of the Party, and I assume that the intel community faces similar limitations.”

The yearslong onslaught has subsequently made it “extremely challenging to recruit assets with access and placement, especially at the Wuhan Lab,” one former defense intelligence analyst stressed.

“In a situation like this, it takes a significant amount of time to first figure out what the source of exposure was, so you do not keep falling prey to the same vulnerability, and then begin the spy recruitment and onboarding cycle,” observed Greg Barbaccia, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and current expert in counterintelligence and insider threat. . .

According to a Washington Post report earlier this month, State Department officials visited the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory – one of several research facilities in the area – in 2018 and issued a cable back home warning of steep safety concerns.

John Wood, a defense expert who specializes in asymmetric warfare, stressed that the U.S. capabilities are the most advanced and extensive in the world.

“Consequently, the battle for AI supremacy between USA and China is critical to who will prevail over the long term,” he said. “The issue is not the collection of data, but the timely and accurate understanding and execution upon the data’s findings, and at that, we remain the best in the world.”

Nonetheless, U.S. officials remain confident that the exact origins of the virus that has claimed the lives of more than 143,000 people worldwide will eventually be brought to light.

“Over the last few years, the Trump administration has made it a priority to dismantle China’s penetration of our universities, research labs, corporations and Intelligence agencies,” said one former Pentagon intelligence official. “It will take years to repair the damage and try to get ahead.

“Until then, we will remain hampered, but we always find a way through other avenues. It’s only a matter of time before we have a reasonable understanding of the origins of corona,” the official concluded.

(Excerpt from Fox News. Article by Hollie McKay.)

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Al Grayson
July 30, 2020

USA universities are riddled with Marxist “fellow roaders,” as Marxists call those, though who are not members of any Marxist organizations, support and promote every important Marxist objective.

Jennifer Riggins
April 28, 2020

when discussing all the issues of intelligence and counterintelligence with the Lord as I pray the Lord brings a couple things to my mind: that it was the pride of life and the lust for knowledge the serpent used to bring Adam and Eve down. So Lord I pray that all the actions toward knowledge in these situations are led by Your Spirit and tempered with only Your will-no exceptions-amen

Gertrude Reif
April 24, 2020

O Lord! May our intelligence community be as the “children of Issachar” (I Chronicles 12:32), so that we would be able to discern the operations of those who would destroy us. May we always give You the glory and honor You deserve. Continue to build the Church in China. May seeing eyes be blinded of those who would harm a believer.

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Ann
April 24, 2020

My first thought was – remember who was in the White House when all of this was taking place. Thanks be to God, He gave us Donald Trump for our president in 2017. Continue to pray for our President daily and in the night time too.

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Robert Righter
April 23, 2020

Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Mt 10:26

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Cheryl Ann Rickards
April 23, 2020

Help us Lord!

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Wendy
April 23, 2020

I’m curious to know why an article which cites Washington Post and The New York Times would be used when both of those sources are unreliable.

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Stella Applebaum
April 23, 2020

Thank you for reporting ‘truth’ God protect you every reporter/journalist on what has been a most dangerous career. Just speaking the ‘truth’ is a crime worse than ‘terrorism’, ‘anti-fa’ and all forms of evil perpetrators. Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil …

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Betty B in WI
April 23, 2020

Heavenly Father, We thank You for Your love, guidance, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and protection which we need during this pandemic. Your word tells us, “Great peace have they who love Your law, and nothing can make them stumble.” (Psalm 119:165) We claim Your Word for this day because You are God and never lie. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

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Sherri
April 23, 2020

Our Father in heaven, we praise You and thank You for Your everlasting love and the blessed hope You have given us in Jesus who has won the victory over sin and the world. Through Him we humbly come to Your throne for mercy and help on behalf of our Intel community within our country and abroad, especially in China. You are the Source of all wisdom and You have promised Your children that You will grant them wisdom when they ask You. So Father, please guide Your children as how to pray for our Intel community. Please help Your children working in the Intel community as they trust, seek and obey Your Holy Spirit’s lead. Clothe them with the armor of God from head to toe so they will be able to fight the good fight for Your righteousness, honor and glory. Abba Father, we understand the enemy we fight against is not China but the dark forces behind China, for Your Word says “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:12 NIV) So Father, please grant Your children the weapons that carry Your divine power so no humans can stand against them. Please help our Intel community especially those in leadership to be able to see clearly the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party who has been running for over 70 years their whole country with lies, brainwashing propaganda and dictatorship without any restraint or conscience, to discern all the pretensions on the surface and see through them the evil schemes for world supremacy from the Chinese CCP government. Father God, we pray for Your truth and light to prevail concerning this whole WuhanVirus thing and we pray for Your justice to be displayed concerning this malicious conduct committed against our country and all other countries around the world. “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Proverbs 19:21 NIV) Yes, Father, may Your purpose prevail as always. In Jesus’ most powerful name I pray, amen.

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Michelle
April 23, 2020

This move of China who has attacked the Bride of Christ within/and without her borders is attempting to be as Babylon of the earth under the power of the dragon/satan it became clear in prayer about it was brought me to Rev. 12:16 – dissected each word from that Scripture in Hebrew and it was very revealing – the words of the Bride of Christ in the earth ate up the words of the floods of satan – the fabulous (looking) beast – with repeated great cumulative creation power force the Bride of Christ in all the earth brought aid to the woman – and swallowed up all the streams of words of the dragon like the snakes before Pharaoh – whatever craftiness from satan that made people wonder at the power was stopped up by the earth – the regions of boundaries and it’s people stood against the dragon – so we pray for the opening up or to stand open a gate to the earth to receive something – that it can descend to the earth to make use of our mouths and prayers to You Lord for all – even in China to speak freely to recover the freedom to speak to recover the faculty of hearing, to restore ones sight and ones mind’s sight/understanding to unseal revelation and to unroll or proclaim it and open earth will open up the blessings of Heaven of God with his baffling wind of force so that all the nations China is holding and controlling will cumulatively turn and be freed from the power – let this plan be brought to light and all that participated in it and this move of globalism be defeated and the earth will be on Your timing, Your word and Your timing – swallow up this Pharaoh of the earth’s plans and bring low this Egypt and render all the things done in darkness as if You didn’t see it and bring it to light – break the ties on the United States and all other kingdoms so that our nations may be restored and be brought all the profit/booty illegally gotten back two fold – In Jesus Name – Amen.

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Karen Secrest
April 23, 2020

Huweai and Apple have been working very hard for the next “Think you can dance” event. Now Google wants to make it a threesome?

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Mark Myers
April 23, 2020

We fight while we pray.

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Bruni O
April 23, 2020

Proverbs 16:18 “Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.”
Father I pray for the people in China; governed by tyranny, disception and lies! Please Lord, protect our brothers and sisters, the underground church; working for you and bringing more souls to you! I know you hear their cry, pain and sorrow! I pray for you to continue exposing China, that continues being arrogant and deceitful! Bring them to their knees; for their government defiance and lies! Protect your people in China from the plague that no plague will touch them, your chosen one’s to serve you! CHINA, your days of defiant, lies and arrogance are OVER!!! And those defending China will be EXPOSED!! That the whole world will condemn China and their tyrant leaders. Father I pray for your Mercy in your judgement. Please, O Lord continue cleaning the atmosphere and heal the world! I pray for you to expose all of those including the media! Let China to have the consequences and pay for their actions! Waiting to see your mighty hands at work! I pray this in Jesus precious name! Amen!

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    Carla Lucille
    April 23, 2020

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeererrsssssssss and AmeeeeeeeeenYHhñVH in your son Yeshyas name by the gift and power of His blood!!!

Beth
April 23, 2020

Lord God Almighty, Captain of the Hosts, Lord of Heaven’s Armies, I praise You for positioning the intel community where it has no other place to turn, but You, the One who sees everything and knows everything! You promise in James 1:5, “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given him.” Lord God, please let these officials humble themselves, turn to You and ask for Your wisdom. When they do, I pray that You will saturate them with Your wisdom “that comes from heaven, is first of all pure, then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. James 3:17-18)” Eccl. 9:18 says,”Wisdom is better than weapons of war…”
May the Spirit of the Lord rest upon our President, his administration, the Congress, the intel community, and the military. May the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel, and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord- and they will delight in the fear of the Lord. (Is. 11:2-3) Lord God, I appeal to You, I lay this cause before You for You perform wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.(Job 5:8-9) Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.(Eph. 3:20-21)

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    Carla Lucille
    April 23, 2020

    Yes and AMEN YHVH King of Kings and Amen in your son Yeshuas name by the gift and power of His blood!!!

Carolyn Watson
April 23, 2020

Father God we pray in the name of Jesu that eyes that are darkened by Satan would be brought to light revealing to them the way of salvation and they would be brought into eternal life through Jesus. Father I pray for Your light to reveal the evil done in the dark. Protect those who need you that are working to reveal these evil deeds. I pray for a great awakening to Your in China. Father I give all the glory to You. In the mighty saving name of Jesus amen.

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Magdalena Botello
April 23, 2020

Eternal and Most High God, ABBA we claim Your word in Hebrews 4:13 to expose all lies from China and the enemy. Once uncovered give our Leaders wisdom and strength and protection to demolish the dragon’s head under your feet, for the glory of Your name!

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Bonnie Nowostawsky
April 23, 2020

Mercy our Lord God Almighty. You desire repentance. We repent on behalf of our sins esp that which has opened us up to the enemy. Forgive us Lord for none are without sin and in need of your cleansing blood. We humbly ask for your wisdom and discernment to deal with this enemy attack on our lives, our freedoms and our land. We need you Father. Thank you for your righteous prophets and leaders. Heed the cry for deliverance from your enemies. Head the prayers of the persecuted church. I pray in Jesus name for your glory and the fear of the Lord to come. Show your majesty and sovereign throne. Bring the spirit of truth in repentance and turn our hearts to worship you as you Lord of hosts war against spiritual powers in the heavenlies, on earth and in the hearts of the wicked. With expectation and heartfelt thanks AMEN

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Regina Brent
April 23, 2020

Decades ago, the Lord told me that it was not the Muslims that were a danger to the world but the Asians. Many people in the Body of Christ remember when I told them what the Lord said back then. China has not only been a thorn in America’s side but Taiwan, the Philippines and many other nations in the past. The danger lies in their clever way of quietly and deceptively working behind the scenes like the building of the islands in the China Sea. I just read recently that they are now collapsing from weather and water. A medication my sister and sister in Christ’s daughter was taking was taken off the market because it was known to cause cancer. It was made in China. They sent toys to America with lead in it in the past. They have many devices but God has the ultimate power to defeat them. Awaken the Chinese Christians who are under persecution in this country O Lord and let their cry come unto you that you may vindicate and release them to begin the greatest revival known to man. Awaken America to pray for their brothers and sisters in Christ in China and Hong Kong.
Pray for the leaders of the nations to open their hearts and received Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. Reveal yourself to the nations O God that they may open their hearts and fear your holy name!
Pastor Regina

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Melissa Tapio Fort
April 23, 2020

OUR Father, we thank YOU, for exposing ALL evil anywhere it lays its venomous head in Jesus name for YOU said to pray in the earth as it is in HEAVEN and there is NO evil in HEAVEN! Amen. So we are confident YOUR will be done and decreeing ALIGNMENT with YOUR ways, in YOUR Perfect Timing! Amen

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Sherry Higdon
April 23, 2020

Perhaps one only need ask the luciferian-left Diane Feinstein whose ‘driver’ was a Chinese spy for 20 YEARS! How much intel did Feinstein feed to that individual? Why has she not been hung for treason? It’s time to rise up against these black-souls!

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kate
April 23, 2020

Wonderful Holy Spirit, You search all things, even the deep things of God….Please expose all that is being hidden, here. We plead the blood of Jesus over all who are seeking to help search for information for America’s protection.

Please bring to light all that has happened/is happening in China that has affected the US/the world….Make it plain, for all to see….Expose every person involved in covering up the truth, and in any way causing harm to US/other countries.

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M.J. McFalls
April 23, 2020

Dear Almighty Father Above All,
Please open up the eyes and ears of ALL American citizens Please let them know TRUTH.
PROTECT the operatives in China who are doing good
Protect and BLESS the underground in China who are your faithful ones.
Thank you Lord. In Jesus’ name Amen

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Ronald Bangert
April 23, 2020

Father, infuse our intelligence community with Your Eternal vision.

Lead our intelligence community into the hidden & dark places of the enemies war room & uncover agents, within & without our country.

Unmask all the enemies plans against us and against Your Throne!

Bring your Church into your Sabbath Rest during this Sabbatical from a life not ruled by You into a Ruthless Repentance of all fleshly pursuits that lead to Idolatry. Search us, so that we may turn to Your Reproach and be cleansed.

We are Your Bride. As we walk through this Crucible, may we allow Your Light & Live drill down so deep, that Our Nation can truly become a City on a Hill, so Your Light & Love may penetrate this present darkness.

Remember our brethren in China who suffer under their Communist government. Their properties destroyed, they are imprisoned, tortured, and killed. Denied at every turn, yet, the church grows! Avenge their Blood and act upon Thier Intercessions collectively. The prayers of the righteous avails much.

This Battle is the Lords!

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    Lois Taritas
    April 23, 2020

    Yes it is the Lords battle. He will deal with all who were involved, some shocking but some not! Expose oh God!

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      Ronald Bangert
      April 23, 2020

      Yes! Ultimately to expose the works of Satan and rob hell, to populate heaven!

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