Whereas U.S. intelligence agencies collect information for counterterrorism and military operations abroad, China’s spy services focus on obtaining intellectual property and implementing social controls. From a review of “Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer” on Cipher Brief. The chapter on economic espionage is the longest, and is enlightening both to the scale of Chinese activities,...
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A Night of Angst from Spies and Journalists
Some of the folks whom President Trump has smeared as “enemies of the people” took to the speaker’s platform at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Tuesday night. Attended by senior journalists and intelligence professionals, the event, “Breaking News: U.S. Intelligence and The Press,” was affably insiderish in the Washington way. Former acting CIA...