** ** Are Chinese Sleeper Espionage Cells Active in America?****
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2012/10/are-chinese-sleeper-espionage-cells-active-in-america/ **** ** ** ** ** ** ** China’s Military Intelligence has placed, ‘fish at the bottom of the**** ocean’ (Chen di yu). These are individuals recruited as espionage agents**** who will not be activated until a later date (1).**** ** ** This past week, two separate incidences serve to remind us that the US is*** * under attack from China.**** ** ** With their economy slowing down, Beijing will do whatever it takes to**** maintain growth, even it if means stealing US know-how and tech in order to* *** achieve this. (2)(3)**** ** ** Beijing knows that despite recent pushes to enhance indigenous innovation,** ** successes have been few and far between. In order to fill the innovation**** gap, the Chinese have turned to stealing from foreign firms and countries.** ** ** ** As a matter of fact, the Chinese have stolen so much technology from the US* *** that it has been called the greatest transfer of wealth in history (4). And* *** a large part of the problem is that the Chinese government has gotten deeply **** into the business of stealing economic secrets, ultimately to be used**** against the US (5).**** ** ** Chinese actors are the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of*** * economic espionage (6).**** ** ** Chinese Sleeper Cells Discovered**** ** ** In what can only be described as disturbing, two weeks ago, two Chinese**** nationals were caught playing their part in China’s sleeper cell of**** espionage.**** ** ** What is more troubling than this is that one of the two, Sixing Liu, was a** ** naturalized US citizen now living in New Jersey. Mr Liu was convicted of**** stealing files related to military technology from a defense contractor, and **** illegally selling them to China (7).**** ** ** The files he had stolen contained secrets regarding performance and design** ** of guidance systems for missiles, rockets and unnamed aircraft (8).**** ** ** Apparently, Mr Liu saw nothing wrong with selling this information about US* *** military hardware to his home country - China. The other Chinese national*** * was Ming Suan Zhang, who was attempting to export thousands of pounds of**** aerospace grade carbon fiber to be used in China’s next generation fighter.* *** ** ** Both actions are punishable under laws protecting, “Military potential or*** * nuclear proliferation of other nations or that could be detrimental to the** ** foreign policy or national security of the U.S.” (9)(10)**** ** ** The dual arrests signal an alarming increase in the incidence of Chinese**** nationals and Chinese immigrants stealing US trade secrets and technology*** * and selling them to China. Things have gotten so bad that the US government* *** has established a new anti-espionage task force specifically for the Chinese **** and Iranian threat.**** ** ** chinese sleeper cells**** Whats up with Chinese spying on the US?**** ** ** It’s not as if the Chinese are only spying and thieving from the US. In**** that regard, they are agnostic.**** ** ** Any and all forms of know-how they lack is in their gun sights, and the**** country of origin does not matter. The problem is that the US tends to be a* *** leader of technology and development across many fields and thus we tend to* *** be a primary target of communist China.**** ** ** More troublesome, however, is that the Chinese see the US as a potential**** adversary. The Chinese take a long term view of warfare and are preparing*** * themselves. Who better to attack with espionage than the worlds biggest**** military power?**** ** ** While our businesses rush into China to make a buck, the Chinese are**** stealing us blind. Aside from the loss in profits at the hands of the**** Chinese, theft by that country is also compromising US national security as* *** well.**** ** ** And much of that theft is not cloak and dagger stuff of 007, but it is from* *** Chinese nationals working for US firms who have been turned into spies or*** * sell our secrets in promise of a lucrative payout back in China.**** ** ** To them, the value of security to the country that has been good enough to** ** sponsor them with a green card, is not worth as much as the loyalty they**** have to the motherland-China. The good news for China is that in the last*** * year alone, the US granted over 70,000 green cards to Chinese nationals.**** ** ** Of course we can assume that not all of those people have the desire to sell **** out American secrets, but then again, even if the Communist party can turn** ** 5% of them, that would be 3,500 extra Chinese each year looking to pilfer US **** secrets.**** ** ** china sleeper cells**** We Open Trade to China and We Lose**** ** ** By the numbers.**** ** ** Before you consider this just some piece of yellow journalism, consider the* *** following:**** ** ** - Since 2000, the US government brought over 115 prosecutions alleging theft **** of trade secrets and over 80% of those cases which involved governmental**** entities were traced back to China**** ** ** - In 2010, almost 90% of all such cases had a link to China.**** ** ** - In those cases, which were not directly linked to the Chinese government,* *** a high percentage were linked to Chinese companies. The Chinese are going*** * after the most advanced secrets the US has to offer.**** ** ** - In 2011, the highest number of Chinese espionage cases ever was recorded** ** and it spanned a wide spectrum of technological interests**** ** ** - Since 2008, at least seven cases have been persecuted each year against*** * individuals spying for China.**** ** ** -In 2007 alone, there were five cases of individuals spying for China.**** ** ** Remember the cases in the opening of this article? Those are typical of what **** is happening with Chinese espionage today.**** ** ** In the espionage cases tried last year, 10 of the 11 cases were against**** Chinese nationals. These Chinese, whether in the US on a work permit or**** naturalized citizens, had decided to steal and sell US trade secrets for a** ** profit.**** ** ** It is widely known that the Chinese Intelligence bureau seeks out ethnic**** Chinese to do their dirty work.**** ** ** The reason is that Chinese can be tribal and tend not to trust outsiders.*** * The Chinese Communists can also leverage a shared sense of ‘us against the** ** world’ and appeal to the Chinese immigrant’s sense of their**** ‘Chinese-ness’ and loyalty.**** ** ** china espionage**** Turning the Chinese Into Spies**** ** ** The Communist MSS11 (CIA-like arm of the Chinese government) has many tools* *** at its disposal for turning a Chinese national into a spy.**** ** ** When doing so, the MSS and communists primarily rely on two different**** approaches. They first appeal to the Chinese heritage, which exploits not*** * only the sentimental feeling of ethnic pride, but also the need to protect** ** China from ‘foreign invaders’. (12)**** ** ** The second method they utilize is coercion. Most of those first generation** ** Chinese still have family back in the Chinese mainland. The Communists**** threaten that harm could come to the emigrant’s family if they were not to** ** help the ‘motherland’. (13) (14)**** ** ** The Chinese Communists begin the spy recruitment process early. Remember**** that there are 70,000 Chinese who received green cards? Well add to that**** 160,000 Chinese who are studying as well. Chinese students are perhaps the** ** most sought after group of the MSS.**** ** ** The Chinese are old hands at the spy game and very patient. They know that** ** many students will not be turned into spies over night. They also know that* *** with the proper prodding, a student’s mind can be ‘opened’ to the need to*** * protect China.**** ** ** It is this proactive approach in targeting Chinese college students in the** ** US that is of concern to the US government.**** ** ** The reasons for targeting US-bound students are many. Not the least of**** which, however, is the fact that younger people tend to be more idealistic.* *** This is true in the case of China, but there are other issues at play as**** well.**** ** ** Those Chinese attending college in the US have not seen the horrific actions **** of the Communist party play out as have those in their 30′s and above. The** ** younger Chinese have only heard a sanitized version of the Tienanmen**** massacre of 1989 if they have heard of it at all (15).**** ** ** In addition, this privileged group of one-child policy children have been*** * under the constant influence of ramped up Communist party propaganda,**** spurred on by events such as the Olympics and economic growth.**** ** ** For these youths, the realities of communist China’s past remain a mystery.* *** ** ** Next week: The Making of a Chinese Spy**** ** ** ** ** References & Image Credits:**** (1) Chinese Intelligence Operations, Nicholas Eftimiades**** (2) CNBC**** (3) Chinese Intelligence Operations, Nicholas Eftimiades**** (4) Forbes.com**** (5) CNBC**** (6) Forbes.com**** (7) Businessweek.com**** (8) id.**** (9) id.**** (10) The New Jersey case is U.S. v. Liu, 2:11-cr-00208, U.S. District Court, **** District of New Jersey (Newark).**** The New York case is U.S. v. Zhang, 12-mj-00829, U.S. District Court,**** Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn).**** (11) Wikipedia**** (12) Chinese Intelligence Operations, Nicholas Eftimiades**** (13) Chinese Intelligence Operations, Nicholas Eftimiades**** (14) Mainland Chinese typically refer to China as ‘The Motherland’**** (15) It never ceases to amaze me how few Chinese who are 27 and under have** ** heard of the massacre.**** (16) UPI.com**** ** ** ** ** ==========================================**** (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this **** message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to* *** these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed **** within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with**** "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. **** The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The**** Copyright Act of 1976. 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