CIA Wants More Scientists And Mandarin Speakers

The Olympian: CIA wants to recruit more scientists and Mandarin speakers as U.S.-China tensions grow

U.S. intelligence

agencies had already obtained a trove of Chinese data containing potential clues on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic when President Joe Biden ordered a review earlier this year.

The challenge was in deciphering it. Spy agencies needed data scientists to process the intelligence, biologists to put it into context, and Mandarin Chinese speakers to help translate it. All of them needed security clearances for access to classified information.

It was a high-profile example of a growing challenge within the intelligence community.

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Update: After 20 years of anti-terror work, CIA gets back to spycraft basics in shift to China (CNN)

WNU Editor: This is long overdue.