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China's spy school expansion causes concern in the West While Britain's MI5 fears 'significant espionage threats,' Chinese intelligence official says new colleges are 'nothing to worry about' By Malcolm Moore, Daily Telegraph June 25, 2011 2:07 AM China has opened a string of spy schools since the beginning of the year in an attempt to increase the training and recruitment of its agents. Last week, China opened its eighth National Intelligence College on the campus of Hunan University in the central city of Changsha. Since January, similar training schools have opened inside universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Qingdao and Harbin. The move comes amid growing worries in the West at the scale and breadth of Chinese intelligence-gathering, with Britain's MI5 saying that the Chinese government "represents one of the most significant espionage threats to the U.K." In February, China allegedly penetrated the British Foreign Office's internal communications network. Until now, however, the bulk of Chinese foreign espionage is thought to have been conducted primarily by academics and students who are sent to the host countries only for a short period of time. The new schools aim to transform and modernize the Chinese intelligence services, producing spies who are trained in the latest methods of data collection and analysis. Each school will recruit around 30 to 50 carefully selected existing undergraduates each year. The move echoes similar efforts by Western intelligence agencies, including MI5, to improve their analytical capabilities and use of technology. The U.S. has a similar project, named the National Security Education Program, which was set up after the first Gulf conflict in order to boost language and culture training for U.S. spies. The Chinese program began in 2008 with the founding of the first Intelligence College at Nanjing university. A second school was set up in the southern province of Guangdong at the end of last year, and the program has now been dramatically accelerated. "The establishment of an intelligence college at Fudan is in response to the urgent need for special skills to conduct intelligence work in the modern era," said a spokesman for Shanghai's Fudan university. "The college will use Fudan's existing computer science, law, management, journalism and sociology resources and then carry out special intelligence training." However, the university would not disclose the location of the new spy school, and students at Fudan university have been kept largely in the dark about its existence. "China does not have the talents and skills it needs in its intelligence departments," said Cao Shujin, the deputy dean of the Zhongshan National Intelligence College. "We needed to set up specific degree courses to fill those requirements." Cao said the new colleges were "nothing for the West to worry about," adding: "This is nothing like the changes going on in the People's Liberation Army. We are just trying to provide the right sort of skills for our requirements." [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/
