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U.S. and intelligence allies issue rare joint warning about China
The agencies said Chinese intelligence officers use fake recruiters and online job ads to seek privileged information, paying up to several thousand dollars per report.
- On Wednesday, the Five Eyes alliance—comprising the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—issued an unprecedented joint warning about Chinese military intelligence aggressively using online job platforms to recruit individuals with access to sensitive information.
- Intelligence operatives pose as private consultancies, think tanks, or human resources firms, placing job advertisements for foreign policy and defense analysts to target government, military, and think-tank personnel. This aggressive online recruitment strategy exploits professional networking sites like LinkedIn.
- Recruited individuals receive payments ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars per commissioned report, sometimes in cryptocurrency. Successful recruitment has led to criminal prosecutions, job losses, and security-clearance revocations among Five Eyes personnel.
- Beijing has repeatedly rejected such claims, calling them "pure fabrication and malicious slander." The Five Eyes alliance, rooted in World War II cooperation, remains one of the world's most comprehensive intelligence-sharing partnerships.
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