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How Sharing Information Can Put Intelligence Sources at Risk
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Sharing counterintelligence information between countries requires a greater degree of trust, which can put US intelligence assets at risk, as seen in the case of a large group of sources in China being killed after Iran shared information with its Chinese counterparts.
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