Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel (in Chongqing, China) A lot of intrigue in this story, and curiously enough the title reminded me of the hotel "holiday" picture in the "We know" Qdrop, given that the murder of Neil Heywood took place in Chongqing, China.  But that's not the main reason for posting about it. The link to the titled BBC article is below, but first I want to give links that provided the lense with which I was reading it.  I had read the following article a few days ago, it's must read imo, in the spirit of 'the future unlocks the past'.  Under Obama, the CIA Suffered a 'Catastrophic' Disaster thanks @Arrvee for earlier post From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to the secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources on the ground worldwide. The previously unreported global problem originated in Iran and spiderwebbed to other countries, and was left unrepaired — despite warnings about what was happening — until more than two dozen sources died in China in 2011 and 2012 as a result, according to 11 former intelligence and national security officials. This is simply stunning. A rollup of networks across the world -- an event that began in Iran, where the Obama administration would soon enough be negotiating its much sought-after "nuclear deal framework," and ended with numerous deaths... ...a lot of churn during what we now know was a tumultuous time. Oddly enough, one important national-security position experienced exactly zero churn during these years, that of Homeland Security adviser. Which chair was occupied by John Brennan, until he stepped in at the CIA. Oddly enough Well oddly enough, Neil Heywood worked for Hakluyt.  It's a corporate intelligence company based in London, founded by former senior officers of the British Secret Service, (in close association with titled Shell directors). Sir Peter Holmes was President of the Hakluyt Foundation, which supposedly had an oversight function on the spying operations while Sir William Purves was Chairman of Hakluyt & Company Ltd.   “The company has over 100 “associates” on its books – some based in London, others at stations worldwide, formed by personal contacts, whose judgement the directors trust absolutely. They might be investigative journalists…” “When Hakluyt receives an assignment, it calls up to five associates back to London to be briefed and then “deploys” them.” http://archive.is/t594Y Another curious thing is that Hakluyt appears connected to Spygate… Alexander Downer, the Australian official, also has ties to western intelligence communities. He is an advisory board member at Hakluyt & Co., an opposition research firm founded by three former British spies "to provide the kind of otherwise inaccessible research for which select governments and Fortune 500 corporations pay huge sums," reported PoliZette. Executives at Hakluyt & Co. donated thousands to Clinton's presidential campaign, and the firm has "significant political and financial links" to her, PoliZette reported. Downer also helped secure $25 million in aid to the Clinton Foundation from Australia to help fight AIDS. Oddly enough indeed But while this NYT 2017 article wondered how 'in one of the worst intelligence breach in decades' China knew about CIA networks Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations   they don't fail to mention Trump and Russia of course! At a time when the C.I.A. is trying to figure out how some of its most sensitive documents were leaked onto the internet two months ago by WikiLeaks, and the F.B.I. investigates possible ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russia, the unsettled nature of the China investigation demonstrates the difficulty of conducting counterespionage investigations into sophisticated spy services like those in Russia and China. In the PJ article we learned that " At the CIA, there was “shock and awe” about the simplicity of the technique the Iranians used to successfully compromise the system, said one former official. Fortunately we are getting more of an idea of the big picture.. Now, nearly eight years later, it appears that the agency botched the communication system it used to interact with its sources, according to five current and former intelligence officials. The CIA had imported the system from its Middle East operations, where the online environment was considerably less hazardous, and apparently underestimated China’s ability to penetrate it. Dozens of US spies killed after Iran and China uncovered CIA messaging service using Google  I hope everyone took the time to read the links above, and then at your leisure, read about the Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel. Hillary's name is mentioned, in her capacity as Sec. of State. BBC 17 March 2017 The 2011 Murder of Neil Heywood in the Lucky Holiday Hotel, Chongqing, China.