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The provided text is an excerpt from a 2010 counterintelligence analysis paper titled, "PRC CI Analysis", which critically reviews the 1999 Cox Report. This analysis focuses on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) acquiring U.S. nuclear design secrets and advanced technology beginning in the 1970s, which allegedly enabled the PRC to accelerate its nuclear weapons capability to be on par with the U.S. The paper examines the counterintelligence (CI) methods and practices utilized in the Cox Report investigation, noting that the PRC successfully exploited open-source intelligence (OSINT) and weaknesses in the fragmented U.S. counterintelligence system. Furthermore, the analysis highlights that the PRC’s success was aided by the lack of coordinated government and private sector security measures and the absence of a universal U.S. national counterintelligence strategy at the time. The author ultimately suggests that the public release of the Cox Report provided the PRC with enough information to adjust its intelligence collection efforts, and that U.S. openness continues to make it a target.