A Chinese media outlet has revealed that over recent years some Chinese students have been gathering intelligence for foreign intelligence networks, and that this poses a hidden danger to the country's state security.An overseas intelligence network has been targeting Chinese college students on the internet and trying to turn them against their country, the nationalistic state-run Global Times reported.
The network offers high school and college students money to aid them in gathering intelligence as well as analysing and transmitting data, the report revealed.Sources stated that most of these students were contacted by special agents while chatting online or looking for job opportunities on the internet and that they were initially unaware that they were committing illegal acts. With the cash incentives involved, some of them continued to abet the intelligence agents.A student at a maritime school in Guangzhou, going under the pseudonym Xu Peng, said he had posted a message on messaging platform QQ that both his parents lived in the countryside and were not wealthy so he was seeking financial support of 2,000 yuan (US$321) for his tuition.
A man, who went under the handle "Miss Q," responded to the post, saying that he would like to give assistance as long as Xu helped collect periodicals detailing equipment procurement by the People's Liberation Army.Miss Q wired the money to Xu, even though Xu was unable to find any relevant information at his school.In May 2012, Xu got in touch with Miss Q again, who gave Xu a part-time job as a field investigator with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan. Xu had to take photos of military equipment and vessels at a naval base and record the progress of ships that were under construction or repair.Xu admitted that he was aware that Miss Q was a spy, but that it was hard for him to say no because of the money.
A Chinese intelligence official said that foreign intelligence networks were inciting Chinese college students to apply for jobs in the civil service in the government's intelligence agencies, such as in the security department and in military intelligence organizations, with the aim of having them provide more confidential information.
Data showed that about 30 spying cases across ten Chinese provinces were reported in 2012 alone, which Chinese intelligence officials have described as dirty tricks.
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