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Probably the biggest failure of US intelligence since 9\/11 has been the compromise of the CIA\u2019s communication network, which it had used to keep in touch with agents and assets in foreign nations. The Chinese busted and executed dozens of US spies because of it. A new expos\u00e9 by Yahoo News says a similar upheaval happened in Iran and that the Iranians managed to defeat the system relatively easily \u2013 because it was never intended for the purpose it was used for. The CIA could have prevented the blunder had it listened to a defense contractor named John Reidy, who’d warned about the vulnerability of the system years before the Iranians mastered it. Reidy\u2019s job was to identify, contact and manage human resources for the CIA in Iran. His complaint, however, was not heeded, while Reidy himself was punished by his superiors for the embarrassment he caused, or at least that\u2019s what he believes. \u201cThis is one of the most catastrophic intelligence failures since September 11th,\u201d Irvin McCullough, a national security analyst with the Government Accountability Project, told Yahoo News; \u201cAnd the CIA punished the person who brought the problem to light.\u201d<\/p>\n