"We've made progress, and we're working very hard over recent years to ensure that we have strong human intelligence capability to complement what we can acquire through other methods," said CIA Director William Burns during the recent Aspen Security Forum.

This offended the Chinese communist government who stated they would be responding decisively to this insult.

"This is rather concerning. The US on the one hand keeps spreading disinformation on so-called 'Chinese spying and cyber attacks,' and on the other hand tells the public about its large-scale intelligence activities targeting China," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, adding that China shall "take all measures necessary to safeguard national security."