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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com
The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei issued a statement hours after a former U.S. senior intelligence official confirmed that Huawei had indeed spied for the Chinese government.
Gen. Michael Hayden [Ret], former director of the CIA and NSA, a highly respected professional intelligence official in the West, told the Australian Financial Review in a July 19 interview that “as an intelligence professional, I stand back in awe at the breadth, depth, sophistication and persistence of the Chinese espionage campaign against the West.�
In response to the question, “do you think hard evidence exists within democratic, English-speaking intelligence networks that Huawei has engaged in espionage on behalf of the Chinese state in the past?� Gen. Hayden replied that “Yes. I have no reason to question the belief that’s the case.�
“That’s my professional judgment,� he added, “but as the former director of the NSA, I cannot comment on specific instances of espionage or any operational matters.�
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