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B http://www.presstv.ir/detail/186283.html British MI5 accuses China of espionage Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:48AM cid:part1.01060201.09020007@yahoo.com Britain's domestic intelligence agency, MI5 has accused China of conducting espionage attacks inside the UK, putting the two countries in a state of undeclared war. The accusations come as Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is paying a two-day state visit to Britain. Jonathan Evans, the director general of MI5, claimed that the Chinese are carrying out "unreconstructed attempts" to spy on Britain. "The Chinese continue to devote considerable time and energy trying to steal our sensitive technology on civilian and military projects and trying to obtain political and economic intelligence at our expense", Evans said in a statement. MI5 believes that the Chinese government "represents one of the most significant espionage threats to the UK", he claimed. Last year, MI5's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) issued a 14-page "restricted" report, describing how China has attacked British defence, energy, communications and manufacturing companies in a concerted hacking campaign. The report said Chinese hackers has been constantly attempting to break into government departments and private sector companies as evidenced by Britain's Office of Cyber Security and the Cyber Security Operations Centre based at GCHQ. It also claimed that Chinese agents are trying to cultivate "long-term relationships" with the employees of key British companies. "Chinese intelligence services have also been known to exploit vulnerabilities such as sexual relationships and illegal activities to pressurize individuals to co-operate with them", alleged the CPNI report. Victims include one of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's aides who was caught in a "honeytrap" operation by a suspected Chinese intelligence agent who is thought to have stolen his Blackberry phone after she approached him in a Shanghai hotel disco three years ago. MOL/HE <http://www.presstv.ir/detail/186283.html> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
