US intelligence `missed' PLA advances

[dArKeR]

A highly classified report said US intelligence agencies had failed to recognize more than a dozen key military developments in China in the past decade, the Washington Times said yesterday.
The report, drawn up by current and former intelligence officials, blames Chinese secrecy for part of the failures, but also US intelligence agents for not gathering solid information on the Chinese military and for not planting agents in the communist government, officials familiar with the report told the daily.

The study, parts of which will be included in the Pentagon's annual report to Congress on the Chinese military to be released later this month, highlighted failures to notice the following aspects of China's military buildup:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/06/10/2003258667

Really? With Neil Bush over there having sex with teenagers and he missed the signs?

[Up2Late]

1. O.K., I can see them Maybe hiding the new Long-Range Cruse....

...missle, but missing "...The importation of advanced weaponry, including Russian submarines, warships and fighter-bombers...!":wtf: What are we paying these people for anyway?

[David__77]

2. Good.

I don't want the US in the know about other sovereign countries' national security measures. All the better to deter US aggression.