Spying Work is all over

• ahtansh

  3 Jun 05, 09:52

  Every one is Spying!
  
  AUSTRALIA has set up a new counter-espionage unit to track down foreign spies, notably Chinese agents who have surpassed Russians as the country's biggest espionage threat, The Australian newspaper reported yesterday.
  
  The newspaper quoted senior government sources as saying that foreign spies were as numerous and active in Australia today as at the height of the Cold War.
  
  The biggest concern, they said, was a new push by China to gather intelligence on military-related technology and strategic policy secrets.
  
  'China would be the biggest now by a fair way,' said one source, who said Chinese spies now outnumbered Russian agents who were previously Australia's biggest espionage concern.
  
  'They have built up their capabilities over the last 10 years and are more aggressive in their activities,' the source was quoted as saying.
  
  'Espionage is the forgotten side of the intelligence game but it remains alive and well.'
  
  The new counter-espionage unit has been set up within the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the government's main intelligence agency.
  
  The staff size and cost of the unit remain confidential. Most of the spies worrying ASIO operate out of embassies under diplomatic cover, but some work under cover as businessmen or other professionals.
  
  SPH also have spy in China...
• Obersturmfuhrer

  3 Jun 05, 13:17

  People seem to readily believe media reports and condemn men even before they been proven of their guilt. Sigh....
• lionnoisy

  3 Jun 05, 20:32

  ahtansh: Dun play play.The reporter is still in prison.
  u are unfair to him saying he is assigned by sg.
  
  Today ,hk newspaper said: His wife claimed he was tasked by China
  top leader to report the situation in HK.Few politicians confimed
  they had met a researcher fr China,who was also detained.
  The reseacher was asked by reporter to meet HK politicians.
  
  http://hk.news.yahoo.com/050602/12/1d4i2.html
  
  Have u seen STimes played down the news today?The priority is get him released.He worked for SPH!
• ahtansh

  9 Jun 05, 10:12

  May be China tried to recruit him.
  
  Second defecting Chinese official backs claims of 1,000 spies in Australia
  
  A second Chinese official hoping to defect to Australia has backed statements made by an asylum-seeking diplomat that Beijing has hundreds of spies in the country.
  
  Chinese business people and students as well as embassy and consulate officials are engaged in espionage in Australia, former security official Hao Feng Jun said in a television interview late Tuesday.
  
  China has denied the claim, which was first made by defecting diplomat Chen Yonglin, former first secretary at the Chinese consulate-general in Sydney, on the weekend.
  
  Chen, who abandoned his diplomatic post about two weeks ago and requested political asylum in Australia, said "some thousand" Chinese spies and informants were operating in the country.
  
  The diplomat has requested political asylum, saying he faces persecution at home for having aided Chinese pro-democracy activists and other dissidents in Australia.
  
  Australian authorities initially rejected Chen's plea for asylum, but officials this week said they were considering a temporary protection visa for the fugitive diplomat.
  
  Officials here have refused to comment on Chen's spying allegations, which were angrily rejected late Tuesday by a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing.
  
  "The rumors spread by Chen Yonglin are total slander and hopefully you will not take it in easily," said the spokesman, Liu Jianchao.
  
  But Chen's allegations were backed up by Hao, who presented himself as a former Chinese security official who travelled to Australia as a tourist in February and has also requested political asylum.
  
  "I worked in the police office in the security bureau and I believe that what Mr. Chen says is true," Hao said through a translator.
  
  "They send out businessmen and students out to overseas countries as spies," he said.
  
  Hao, 32, said Chinese spies infiltrated the Falungong meditation movement and other groups overseas and sent back information to China.
  
  "They'd send all this intelligence information through from Australia, from North America, Canada and other countries and are reported back to the National Security Bureau, but also the Public Security Bureau. They'd sent back lots of information," he said.
  
  Hao said he was formerly a police officer attached to a specialist security unit in northern Tianjin province monitoring Falungong, a group China has termed an evil cult, and had witnessed the torture of its practitioners.
  
  He said he was prompted to speak out after hearing about Chen, who has been living in hiding with his wife and six-year-old daughter since leaving his job on May 26.
  
  Australia's handling of the Chen case is being closely watched by the political opposition and refugee rights groups concerned that Canberra could place its burgeoning trade relations with China ahead of human rights.
  
  Prime Minister John Howard launched multi-billion dollar free trade negotiations with China during a trip to Beijing in April and Australia is also keen to expand resource exports to China's booming economy.
  
  Chen, 37, said on the weekend that he had asked for political asylum after becoming disillusioned with his work monitoring dissident groups but that his application was rejected by officials who did not even interview him.
  
  The Chinese consulate-general has refuted Chen's claims, saying he has made up the stories so he can stay in Australia where he has lived for the past four years.
  
  Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Wednesday said that Chen had not formally applied for political asylum and was now being considered for a protection visa which would allow him to stay in the country.
  
  
• spacemarine

  9 Jun 05, 10:42

  China is also in the bid for global domination. Conspiracy theories of Chinese spies in another Commonwealth country, Canada.
  
  http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover012605.htm
  
  http://www.primetimecrime.com/APNS/20030808chinesespy.htm
• lionnoisy

  10 Jun 05, 23:48

  SPYS ARE RIGHT HERE
  
  pl read http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=136534