Chinese official found spying for the CIA

According to the World Journal, the aide is a 38-year-old graduate of Peking
university’s Institute of International Relations who became a trusted
assistant to the vice minister six years ago.

However, three years ago, on a work trip to Hong Kong, he was said to have
fallen into a honey trap involving a female US agent and was

subsequently blackmailed into passing information to the CIA.

Last year, officials at the ministry became aware that there was a mole and
the aide was eventually drawn out with a series of deliberate leaks.

One vice minister who has recently departed the ministry is Gao Yichen, a
61-year-old English, French and Russian speaker whose portfolio included the
deputy directorship of the leadership team for “maintaining stability”
and the deputy directorship of the 610 Office,

responsible for operations concerning the Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned
in China.

Mr Gao was listed as a vice minister last September, but had left by March.

The head of the 610 Office is Zhou Yongkang, China’s most powerful Security
official whose own career has been under a cloud since March, when he was
linked to Bo Xilai, the disgraced former party secretary of Chongqing whose
wife is accused of murdering Neil Heywood, a British businessman, last year.

Tensions between the United States and China have already been raised this
year first by the arrival of Wang Lijun, Chongqing’s police

chief, at the US consulate in Chengdu and then by the decision by the US to
shelter Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist, inside the embassy in Beijing.

There was no comment on the case from the Chinese government, but the news was
not censored and quickly lit up the Chinese internet.

The incident is the most serious spy scandal between China and the United
States to be made public since 1985, when Yu Qiangsheng, an

intelligence official, defected to the US and exposed a double agent inside
the CIA.

In 2004, Cai Xiaohong, the former secretary general of China’s Central Liaison
Office was convicted in a closed trial of spying for the UK in Hong Kong in
the 1990s. Wei Pingyuan, the alleged leader of the intelligence cluster, was
also found guilty.

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