One of the last
cases in espionage conducted by Chinese intelligence shows again a
few interesting details. As far as I understand the arrested person
is not finally convicted and so I will not give his or her name away.
Anyway: The person I am talking about is one of the latest in a long
line of former US intelligence officers, many of them working now as
a private contractor, accused to be a spy for China.
Regarding the
documents related to this case the person worked – beside other
functions – here (I
did all the
blackening because I don’t think that every detail should be posted
online):
The interesting detail is about the commercialisation of promoting
„friendship“ between China and the US. There are similar business
models in Germany as well and it is necessary to investigate them –
due to their harmless appearance and their
honorable goal they represent a great challenge for
counterintelligence. They can rely on a mass of mostly local
politicians and business folks which are so naive to think they are
NOT cooperating with the Chinese government. Any criticism of this
“friendship” promotion is often
condemned as racism, neo-colonalism
etc. by the (in
Australia so-called) “panda-huggers”.
It is no wonder that Confucius Institutes can be opened in Germany,
whereas in other countries some of them are closed again for good
reasons. Not every Friendship Institute is a nest of spies, but given
the massive expansion of Chinese efforts, caution is needed.
The
documents related to the mentioned case show further details which
could be the basis for an extensive analysis of the current Chinese
way of operation, their front companies,
way of payment and of communication etc.
Some
remarks of the FBI Special Agent in charge reminds me on the great
danger of leaked or stolen documents when it come to the sources on
the ground:
A
not too extensive research in the open web
and not digging
into the mass of Snowden files gave
me a trove of NOFORN documents which are obviously not for the
public. One example (and again I did the
blackening):
Another one:
In
this document I can read relevant
details as:
The
Chinese intelligence agents have a good chance to find interesting
details online – just in case they will not find a greedy
foreigner, willing to sell national security assets. For
all the future traitors I recommend a short movie, which is about
this Game of Pawns.
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