Chinese Woman Admits to Gathering Intelligence in US for Beijing: FBI
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Chinese Woman Admits to Gathering Intelligence in US for Beijing: FBI
A Chinese woman stopped at Detroit Metropolitan Airport has been charged after admitting to FBI agents that she came to the United States to gather intelligence for Chinese intelligence officers based in Shanghai. Jin Di, also known as Sophie Jin, a Chinese citizen residing in Tianjin, a Chinese city bordering Beijing, was charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General, according to a complain…
U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted a Chinese woman for collecting information on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party and acting as an unlicensed agent for a foreign government. The woman also admitted to having contact with officials from the Ministry of State Security.
On September 11, U.S. prosecutors in Detroit filed charges against a Chinese citizen, alleging that she contacted current and former U.S. government officials in an attempt to gather information for the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence agencies. This is the latest in a series of counterintelligence cases that have raised national security concerns in the United States.
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