Peter Mattis, War On The Rocks: China’s New Intelligence War Against the United States
The Chinese intelligence threat is set to change dramatically as hackers believed to be linked to China’s civilian intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), acquired millions of personal records from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Although the full extent of the damage remains unknown, fears have emerged about the compromise of data gathered during security clearance background checks, including foreign national contacts. Security experts are right to suggest this information is a treasure trove for an intelligence service trying to penetrate the U.S. national security community. Such treasure is only as valuable as the motivation to use it and, for the MSS, such information would provide the foundation for a new espionage campaign against the United States and demonstrate its value to Chinese policymakers who have had good reason to be skeptical about what the MSS brings to the table. The OPM data offers a way for Chinese intelligence to focus on Americans that matter rather than relying on the creativity of individual agents to find ways to bridge China’s domestic intelligence base with national security professionals abroad.
Update: U.S. Plans to Use Spy Law to Battle Corporate Espionage -- WSJ
WNU Editor: In a sign of the times, the FBI is admitting that they are getting swamped with Chinese espionage cases .... FBI Probes ‘Hundreds’ of China Spy Cases (Shane Harris, Daily Beast).
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