From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: US caught bugging Jiang's jet HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Reuters. 19 January 2002. China Says President's Jet Bugged - FT. LONDON -- China has said its intelligence officers found more than 20 spying devices in a Boeing 767 meant to become President Jiang Zemin's official plane after it was delivered from the U.S., the Financial Times said on Saturday. Citing Chinese officials, the newspaper said it was unclear when the aircraft was fitted with the bugs, said to be tiny and operated by satellite. The devices were detected after the plane emitted a strange static whine during test flights in China in September, shortly after it was delivered. One device was found in a lavatory and another in the headboard of the presidential bed. The discovery came ahead of a planned summit between President Bush and Jiang in Beijing next month. Jiang was said to be furious about the find, the FT said. The aircraft was made at the Boeing factory in Seattle and then fitted with VIP equipment and upholstery by another company. The plane was under surveillance by Chinese officials throughout, the newspaper said. Boeing had no comment on the report but spokeswoman Debbie Heathers told Reuters a 767-300ER plane, which was delivered to Delta Air Lines in June 2000, was re-sold to China United Airlines -- the air force-run airline that ordered the aircraft -- and customized for executive use by Jiang Zemin by a modification company in Texas. A Delta spokesman said he had no immediate comment. A source close to the transaction told Reuters the maintenance on the aircraft between the time it left Delta Air Lines and the time it was sold to China United Airlines was carried out by Dee Howard Aircraft Maintenance in San Antonio, Texas. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had no comment, according to Saturday's Washington Post. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
