Chinese Espionage Against the U.S.: No Better Tool

Not that anyone likes having their asses handed to them, but since China claims to be peaceful... I wonder if they would give us ours on a silver platter. We're so caught up with news about dead models and fear that the intelligence agencies are looking into our purchasing behavior that, as Americans, we have lost sight of the enemy. They are here my friends: among us!

Chinese espionage directed against the United States has met with "total success for China" and "total failure" for America's own intelligence operations, said an author and reporter on national security issues.

Counter-intelligence operations have allowed the Chinese to block and manipulate U.S. electronic eavesdropping operations while the theft of U.S. technology has helped accelerate Beijing's military ambitions, Bill Gertz said Friday at a gathering of the Defense Forum Foundation on Capitol Hill.

Chinese operatives now have the ability to feed false information about the true nature and strategic aims of the communist regime, Gertz said in his talk. For that reason it is now easier for the Beijing government to circulate misinformation about a "peaceful rise" that belies potential hostility toward the United States, he added.

Chinese Covert Operations In The U.S.

Sounds like the stuff movies are made out of. Spend a little time reading the headlines and it wont take you long to understand there is a greater chance that not that Chinese operatives are working their MOJO on U.S. soil.

For now, their hostile operations seem to be directed at dissidents such as the Uigurs and Falun Gong. Of course, read through my previous posts and you'll get a good history of their U.S. based operations respective of Front Companies, Economic Espionage, Political Influence, and Theft of Sensitive U.S. Technology.

In an interesting article, Forbes outlines a number of Chinese black operations. With black operations comes, sleeper cells, safe houses, and spys..... the stuff spy movies are made of. Sexy stuff huh?

FORBES

Overseas Falun Gong practitioners are, for example, leading an underground campaign to hack China's Internet firewalls to counter the Chinese Communist Party's news blackout and propaganda in the Middle Kingdom. But there are many skirmishes between Chinese communism and Chinese spiritualism taking place on U.S. soil.

Last year, however, Falun Gong practitioners worldwide were themselves barraged with harassing phone calls, including death threats. Some of these campaigns involved hours of continuous and simultaneous ringing of work and home phones and private cell phones.

A few days before the July 1999 crackdown in China, Falun Gong Web sites in Canada and the U.S. began to crash. According to Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China, a Falun Gong practitioner in Washington traced the "denial of service" hacker attacks through an Asia-Pacific Internet registry, to No. 14 East Chang'an Street, Beijing, where China's Ministry of Public Security is located.

The Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong followers is allegedly run by the notorious Office 6-10, a specially created unit that has overseen a terror campaign, which survivors say includes mass arrests, imprisonment in labor camps, brainwashing, torture and, in some cases, murder, for all those who failed to renounce their allegiance to Falun Gong.

China's Growing Treat: How Many More Maks Are Out There?

China's Spying

If you have not been paying attention, read a little about Chi Mak. And for those who've been paying attention, recall Bobby Fletcher said this case was much ado about nothing, and that the U.S. lied about Chi Mak. Now, you can decide, first bit is Bobby Fletcher's post and the second is from Bloomberg. You decide.
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Original charges against Chi Mak et al have been dropped. Government's petition to hold without bail has been denied.

It seems the prosecution have lied on so many things, it's beginning to smell like another Wen Ho Lee.

- no classified document; not about weapons at all
- files were not encripted in music; It's zipped for size
- no such list from China asking for data
- map of Knolls Atomic Lab turned out to be a hotel map from an old visit
- wiretap showed Chi Mak had no interested in the broken down Mak ancestrial home in Hong Kong

With no charge to nail the sister in-law, prosecution have trumped up a "fake marriage" charge, insinuating she whored herself out. Shame on us America:

Posted by bobby fletcher | February 14, 2006 6:52 PM

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China's Spying

April 2 (Bloomberg) -- In a Santa Ana, California, courtroom, 66-year-old engineer Chi Mak listens to federal prosecutors describe how he and his family stole secrets from his employer, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. The alleged target: data about Navy submarine engines that run silently to avoid detection.

U.S. intelligence officials say the Mak case is unusual -- not in the nature of the charges brought against him, but that charges were brought at all.

For every person caught and accused of passing U.S. military and trade secrets to China, they say, scores of others go undetected. Taking advantage of an outmanned counterintelligence effort drained and distracted by the wars in Iraq and against al-Qaeda, current and former officials say, China has systematically managed to gain sensitive information on U.S. nuclear bombs and ship and missile designs.

``Iraq and the struggle with terrorism are sucking resources across the board,'' says Joel Brenner, the top counterintelligence official in the office of Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell. Meanwhile, ``the Chinese are really making a run at us.''

Adds Keith Riggin, a former senior official at the Central Intelligence Agency who focused on China issues: ``If the American people knew the number of officers going against the Chinese, they would be appalled.'' He says his frustration with the lack of resources was one reason he ended a 24-year career in 2006.

`Troublesome'

While 140 foreign intelligence services are trying to penetrate U.S. agencies, China's is the most aggressive, Brenner says. He describes China's activities as ``an intensifying and troublesome pattern.''

Chinese officials say the U.S. allegations are meritless.

``I wonder why people always feel threatened by others and treat others as thieves,'' Qin Gang, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said at a March 15 press briefing in Beijing. ``It indicates these people have a chip on their shoulders and have fragile psychologies.''

While the Federal Bureau of Investigation tripled the size of its China unit in 2001, plans for further expansion were scotched when the Iraq war began, says Rudy Guerin, a China expert who retired from the bureau last year. David Szady, the FBI's former assistant director for counterintelligence, says the FBI should hire another 1,500 agents, and most should be used against China's espionage within the U.S.

More Agents

Stephen Kodak, an FBI spokesman, declines to say how many more might be necessary. At the same time, he adds that ``the bureau would always welcome additional assets.''

Central Intelligence Agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano says his agency has enough resources, and that ``it would be wrong to suggest that other priorities have diluted the attention we pay to China. Over the past five years, the opposite has been true.''

The FBI spent $2.2 billion on counterterrorism and counterintelligence programs last year; the CIA budget is classified. The U.S. won't disclose how many counterintelligence agents are working on China-related issues.

U.S. officials say there's overwhelming evidence that China has a well-thought-out plan to employ thousands of professional spies and amateurs to get sensitive U.S. military and business data, sometimes directly from sympathetic employees, sometimes through a joint venture or third party.

Submarine Data

Mak, his wife, brother, sister-in-law and nephew were indicted on charges of conspiring to export U.S. defense articles to China's government. In court papers, prosecutors say he copied submarine data from L-3's Anaheim, California-based Power Paragon unit onto compact discs and enlisted the other family members to encrypt the information and help smuggle it to China. Brenner says the disks also contained information on the U.S. Navy's next-generation DD(X) warship.

Under questioning, Mak admitted sending information to Chinese operatives since 1983 on technology that included radar systems of Aegis cruisers, which are used to defend against multiple missile attacks, Brenner says.

Mak and his relatives pleaded innocent to the charges. His lawyer, Ronald Kaye, says he was taking the disks for a conference with fellow engineers, and that the information about the Navy engine was obsolete. The engineer also got approval from his supervisor to make presentations at the conference, Kay says.

`Asset to His Country'

Mak ``was not only an asset to the company but a profound asset to his country,'' he says. Mak's relatives will go on trial in May.

U.S. officials say China's effort encompasses industrial secrets as well as national-security ones. Brenner cites the case of Gary Min, a DuPont Co. chemist who admitted obtaining information on company products, including materials used in airplane construction, that prosecutors valued at $400 million.

Authorities say that between August and December 2005, Min, 43, downloaded 22,000 confidential abstracts from the Wilmington, Delaware-based company's electronic library. The documents included information on all DuPont's major product lines as well as emerging technologies.

Some of the searches focused on Vespel, a synthetic resin used to coat car, airplane and oil pump parts, and Declar, a plastic material used in the automotive and energy industries and in airplane interiors, according to court papers.

Shredded Documents

U.S. law-enforcement authorities said that when they searched Min's Grove City, Ohio, home, they found computers containing confidential files, garbage bags filled with shredded company documents and the remains of DuPont papers that had been burned in the fireplace. In court documents, DuPont said the information would be ``highly valuable'' on the open market in ``foreign countries, specifically China.''

A call to Min's lawyers wasn't returned. Min hasn't been charged with being a Chinese spy.

Brenner says his office is still assessing the damage from another case involving Katrina Leung, who the FBI had used for 20 years as a double agent to obtain information from the Chinese, and who prosecutors in turn accused of being a Chinese agent herself.

Authorities accused Leung, 52, of taking documents from James Smith, head of the FBI's Chinese counterintelligence operation in Los Angeles, over the course of a nearly 20-year affair with him.

Peter Lee

Some of those documents related to ``Royal Tourist,'' the FBI code name for the investigation of Peter Lee, an employee of defense contractor TRW Inc. Lee, who was accused of giving radar technology being developed to track submarines to Chinese scientists, pleaded guilty in 1997 to willful transmission of national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it.

While the case against Leung was dismissed in 2005, Smith pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI about his relationship with her. Smith was one of the FBI's most seasoned China experts, a resource the agency has struggled to replace, intelligence officials say.

The CIA also hasn't been able to replace its veteran China experts when they retire, Riggin says. ``We're losing huge experience in this area.''

With the CIA occupied with preventing U.S. government secrets from falling into the wrong hands, Riggin and others say, companies doing business in China are especially vulnerable to losing non-defense information. U.S. businesses are paying particular attention to the first intellectual-property suit brought in a Chinese court by Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corp., the world's biggest semiconductor maker.

China Prepares To Take Back Taiwan By Force

I just returned from a trip to China, so I'm sorry I have not been able to post. Anyway, I'm back for few months before I travel again.

China will go to any lengths to take back Taiwan, even send covert operatives into the U.S., penetrate sensitive defense contractors, and steal U.S. technology. The trial of Chi Mak begins and for the first time we get to see the inside of Mak's CCP intelligence operation.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The career of a Chinese-born electrical engineer, Chi Mak, over four decades is a textbook example of how China's spy services encourage their agents to burrow into American society in order to steal America's defense secrets, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

The naval technologies Mr. Mak worked on for a defense contractor, Power Paragon, were of interest to China because of its ambition to gain control over a democratically governed island off the mainland, Taiwan. "Their no. 1 goal is to support the retaking of Taiwan, if it comes to that," the prosecutor said. He said the main obstacle to the Chinese effort is the presence in the area of the American 7th Fleet. "The Chinese Navy has determined that it cannot fight the 7th Fleet face to face, but the way to attack the 7th.

Mr. Staples said the high-grade encryption was the hallmark of an espionage operation. "It's not an encryption program that you can go to Fry's or Office Depot and buy. It was a custom-made encryption program and its author was a Chinese man," the prosecutor said. He alleged that American investigators would have been unable to break the encryption if a search of the home of Mr. Mak's brother hadn't turned up a key to the code.

Chinese Hackers Break In U.S. Military and Government Systems: Is This War?

China's action on U.S. soil can be construed as warfare....not the kind we think of from the movies. Rather, China is practicing a new kind of warfare, and soft, covert, and unrestricted warfare. While America sleeps to news of drug ridden supermodels, Chinese Black Operations are rendering the U.S. Defenseless. When will the U.S. Respond?

News Factor
The fact that hackers are directly breaking into military and government computers spotlights the soft underbelly in U.S. cybersecurity. The attacks also underline the need for the federal government to develop policies that define responsibilities between the public and private sectors to fend off hackers and terrorists, say military officials.

Chinese hackers were most likely behind an intrusion in November that disabled the Naval War College's network, forcing it to disconnect from the Internet for several weeks, says Lt. Cmdr. Doug Gabos, a spokesman for the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command in Norfolk, Va.

Forensic analysis indicates the hackers may have sought information on war games in development at the naval college, he said. The college was vulnerable because it did not have the latest security protections, Gabos said.

The November attack was part of an ongoing campaign by Chinese hackers to penetrate government computers.

You're Kidding Me: China Lectures The U.S. On Human Rights

Are you serious? Just goes to show you how active the Chinese propaganda machine is, and what lengths they will go to. The average American will find this article FUNNY! CFA responds in Blue

"Injustice of the judiciary is quite shocking," the Chinese report states. "In some cases, defendants were sent to jail without a guilty plea or a trial, or tossed from their homes without a proper proceeding.

Yes, well anyone deemed a threat by a grand jury (like someone suspected of child rape) will await trail in jail. But, China should keep in mind a Jury put them there and that while in jail they can rest assured they will be able to keep their organs.

"Abuses in U.S. prisons are also common. The United States is the only country in the world that allows the use of police dogs to terrify prisoners," it added.

Yes, dogs help keep prisoners in line and are used as protection if a riot were to break out. But somehow this does not compare the serious torture and cutting out of organs. And oh yes, these prisoners have also had a fair trial and were sentenced to prison by a jury of their peers, not by a blood and organ thirsty government, like is done in China.

"We urge the U.S. government to acknowledge its own human rights problems and stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of human rights," said the lengthy report.

Ya, CFA urges China to stop cutting open people who practice a religion or who are Falun Gong practitioners. When you end up in a U.S. prison it's because you've raped, murdered, and injured. Free speech is not a crime here. Perhaps China ought to be pointing the finger toward themselves.

You know, their lash out against the U.S. speaks volumes as to the pressure they must be feeling.

THE PRC IS BLOCKING BLOGS AGAIN: SHAME ON HU!!

The Chinese government began blocking access to the popular blogging site LiveJournal on Friday, cutting off its citizens from the roughly 1.8 million blogs the service hosts.

The timing of the block coincides with the National People's Congress meeting in Beijing, says Xiao Qiang, a Chinese dissident and founder of the China Digital Times.

(BLOGGERS COMMENT: China Digital Times is an excellent site, CFA readers are encouraged to visit it... at the link above).

While China has reached an accord with some blog hosting companies, including Microsoft's MSN Spaces, it has a history of blocking others, including Google's Blogger.com.

So COVER FOR ACTION is blocked, how can we get our message into China?

"For whatever reason (if) you've been blocked, it's almost impossible to get open again," says Xiao. "It could be one of the blogs in Livejournal has the content they want to block. They are very bluntly over-blocking sites."

HOW WILL CHINA RESPOND

What's in store for advocates of those pro Taiwanese Independence? A break-in? A beat-down? or...how about a good ole organ harvest. Read between the lines, Taiwan is smack in the middle of the PLA cross-hairs. Budget up, unification a step closer, and with a few more years of development the PRC is ready to blind/kill US technology to make Taiwan another PRC Provence.

China fury after call for independence
Jane Macartney in Beijing
March 06, 2007

THE simmering feud between China and Taiwan burst into the open today when Beijing criticised the President of Taiwan for making strident calls for independence.
Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese Foreign Minister, speaking at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, said: “Don’t listen to local leaders. Whoever wants to split away will become a criminal in history.” His anger, which came a day after the announcement of an 18 per cent increase in Chinese military spending, was triggered by remarks at the weekend by Chen Shui-bian, the President of the self-ruled island that lies within striking distance of the southern coast of China.

Beijing has regarded Taiwan as a renegade province since the Nationalist armies fled there after losing the civil war in 1949. The Taiwanese President, who has accelerated his drive to edge the island towards formal independence from China, told a pro-independence group at the weekend: “Taiwan should be independent.” He added: “Taiwan is a country whose sovereignty lies outside the People’s Republic of China.”

Chinese Consulate Asleep At The Wheel?

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Seems the Chinese Consulate in Houston has been sleeping at the wheel. Someone forgot to tell one of their officials "Chen Guangda" that China is killing, torturing, and cutting organs out of the Falun Gong. But hey, it's never to late to learn. He could always read Cover For Action to learn about China's persecution of the FLG.

NEWS ALERT!!!! Chinese Consulate in Houston wants to help the Falun Gong. Let me guess, "we can help you sell your organs".

Related story below:

Group Claims China Harvesting Members' Organs

Chen Guangda at the Chinese consulate in Houston denied the allegations. "The Chinese government never persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. We just outlawed Falun Gong because it is anti-social, anti-humanity and anti-science cult," Guangda said. "We just want to help them."

Chinese Spy Majic

One has to wonder how many Chinese Agents are operating on U.S. soil. With constant reports of Front Companies, and attacks on the Falun Gong in the U.S., you get a sense Chinese Black Operations abound, unabated and unfettered.

Something that interested me was an article in NZ which pointed to the idea that Chinese operatives are operating more freely because of the focus on Counter-terrorism. What an interesting concept: while America worries about terrorist sleeper cells, Chinese intelligence cells rape U.S. technology and Chinese operatives harass, wire-tap, and assault U.S. citizens. It's sometimes hard to believe we are living in America! Has anyone asked the Chinese to make sure the go to the FISA court and get warrent to tap our citizens?

Spies in our midst, says SIS

A focus on counter-terrorism has allowed foreign spies to continue to operate in New Zealand unabated, the Security Intelligence Service says.

Spies were collecting economic and political information and scientific and technological research and development to further their own national interests. "Their activities can be harmful to New Zealand's international and economic wellbeing," Mr Woods said.

Auckland University's Paul Buchanan, a former CIA adviser, said the threat of espionage, especially by the Chinese as they sought to boost their influence in the South Pacific, was much more real.

"If they are going to be the next superpower, they have no choice but to expand their intelligence gathering."

Chinese Agents Target Falun Gong on U.S. Soil

The other day while looking over the blog I was again taken back by several posts which went up a few weeks ago. I wanted to highlight some of them again.

What should be important to readers of "Cover For Action" are the statements made by Congress which outline Chinese Agents operating in the U.S. Here's what I mean:

* Chinese Agents assault U.S. citizens in the U.S.
* Chinese Agents wire-tap U.S. citizens in the U.S.
* Chinese Agent harass and and intimidate U.S. citizens in the U.S.

The U.S. Government is acknowledging that Chinese operatives have infiltrated the U.S., and are assaulting and wire-taping U.S. citizens. This should be alarming to readers. How can foreign operatives do this in the U.S. to U.S. citizens, and it not be considered an act of war.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Resolution 304 also specifically mentioned section 401(a)(1)(B) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401(a)(1)(B)):

Agents of China’s Communist Party Operating in the USResolution 304 calls on China’s agents in the United States to halt all operations being carried out against practitioners of Falun Gong on United States soil.The resolution makes reference to China’s agents carrying out acts of violence and assault, property theft and destruction, illegal wire-tapping, harassment, intimidation, and persecution against practitioners of Falun Gong in the United States.

HU's Chinese Hackers Attack the U.S.

In the never ending saga of Chinese Hackers attacking the U.S. we get another news story. Yet, for all the concern over what the Chinese are doing to our infrastructure, the popular media is more likely to cover stories on who Fathered Anna Nicole's baby. Why this would be more important than a foreign government attack the U.S. is beyond me. I can see it now, once the Chinese take over the U.S. they will import their brand of law... how many Americans will get their livers harvested for being Christians? Unbelievable!!!!!!

Security News
20 February 2007

Attacks by Chinese hackers on US military computer infrastructure have reached the level of sustained cyber-warfare, and are likely to be government-backed, a senior US Navy official said last week.

"They will exploit anything and everything," the official said, according to the report. The attacks are so deliberate that "it's hard to believe it's not government-driven".

Earlier this month, the Ministry of Defence admitted its systems have been penetrated at least nine times since 2002, with five of the successful attacks taking place last year.

Beginning in 2003, US defence agencies have been the target of a series of intrusions, code-named Titan Rain, that was traced to a team of researchers in Guangdong Province. Titan Rain was first reported publicly in 2005

Stay Alert For Communist Spying Tactics

Several times I've asked readers of this blog to post or send me articles or write-ups which they feel passionate about. The title and post below is from "J" a regular reader and commenter to CFA.

Hong Kong—"Stay alert for communist spying tactics," said Hong Kong rights leader Szeto Wah after reading a special report by the Hong Kong Epoch Times (HKET) on Feb. 13. The report narrates how Wang Lian, a former HKET staff member, was forced to be a spy for the Chinese communist regime against HKET.

Wang Lian holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He joined HKET as senior technical support in 2001, and was later employed by Macau University of Science and Technology as Assistant Professor in 2004, while he continued to work for HKET as a volunteer. On Sept. 12, 2006, the regime's National Security officials kidnapped Wang on his trip to Zhuhai City, China.

Chinese Penetration of American National Assets

China continues it's covert operations against American interests; America Sleeps, Hands tied.

Chinas Secret Weapon
February 16, 2007:

The U.S. government has a growing problem with China's covert Cyber War against the United States. ...the action out of China is looking for military and technological secrets, data on how American military networks operate.

There are also attempts to plant special "time bomb" software that could be used in wartime. China is quite open about its intention to use surprise and deception in any future war with the United States.

So what does the U.S. government do, as the evidence against the Chinese builds up? No public statements are being made, but it is known that American Cyber War forces are studying the Chinese attacks carefully, nosing around in China as well, and preparing new Cyber War weapons.

At the same time, current laws prohibit many Cyber War techniques needed to thoroughly track enemy attacks (wiretaps, privacy and all that). So the Chinese move forward with their not-so-secret secret plan for making war via the Internet.

Congress Tells China To Halt Operations On U.S. Soil

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While searching public record on Chinese influence on U.S. soil I came across an interesting bit of information in the Library Of Congress. In 2004, the 108th Congress passed a concurrent resolution calling for China to stand down its operations on U.S. soil, cease the targeting of U.S. citizens practicing Falun Gong, and asked U.S. law enforcement to investigate Chinese operations within the U.S.

I have to tell you, I was surprised to read such an amazing tale... one can only take the details as 100% factual as they came from Congress. Below I listed a few highlights for you. I'd be interested to hear from readers if they have seen, heard, or experienced of the the targeting in the aforementioned Congressional testimony.

The Library of Congress

108th CONGRESS, 2d Session, H. CON. RES. 304

Passed the House of Representatives October 4, 2004.

Expressing the sense of Congress regarding oppression by the Government of the People's Republic of China of Falun Gong in the United States and in China.

Whereas the Chinese Government has also attempted to silence the Falun Gong movement and Chinese prodemocracy groups inside the United States;

Whereas Chinese consular officials have pressured local elected officials in the United States to refuse or withdraw support for the Falun Gong spiritual group;

Whereas the apartment of Ms. Gail Rachlin, the Falun Gong spokeswoman in the United States, has been broken into 5 times by agents of the Chinese regime since the regime banned Falun Gong in 1999 in China;

Whereas over the past 5 years China's diplomatic corps has been actively involved in harassing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States;

Whereas on June 23, 2003, Falun Gong practitioners were attacked outside a Chinese restaurant in New York City by local United States-based individuals with reported ties to the Chinese Government;

Are you kidding me? Break-ins, beating of U.S. citizens, attempting to silence free speech? This is going on in the U.S. by Chinese Agents. Is anyone else concerned about this?

Chinese Assassin's Mace

Another surprisingly quite fact about the Chinese Military and Chinese Intelligence: They are knee deep in the U.S. critical infrastructure and electronic backbone. The threat may no longer be from outside, but what they have left inside. Think of it as a front company within the U.S. electronic system. There is sits, working fine...seemingly a normal bit of software until the Mother-ship calls upon it to begin destroying U.S. networks. You can almost hear the clock ticking...tic..tic..tic.

Published on Feb. 13, 2007

NORFOLK, Va. -- At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against Defense Department networks, Netwarcom officials said.

Attacks coming from China, probably with government support, far outstrip other attackers in terms of volume, proficiency and sophistication, said a senior Netwarcom official, who spoke to reporters on background Feb 12. The conflict has reached the level of a campaign-style, force-on-force engagement, he said.

The motives of Chinese hackers run the gamut, including technology theft, intelligence gathering, exfiltration, research on DOD operations and the creation of dormant presences in DOD networks for future action, the official said.

Chinese hackers were responsible for an intrusion in November 2006 that disabled the Naval War College’s network, forcing the college to shut down its e-mail and computer systems for several weeks, the official said. Forensic analysis showed that the Chinese were seeking information on war games in development at NWC, the official said.

China's New War

While American diplomats express concern over Chinese military build-up, spying, and human rights record China presses forward. It's as if the U.S. were talking to herself. As the old saying goes... it's mind over matter. China does not mind what the U.S. says, because the U.S. does not matter to the Chinese. The U.S. position has become irrelevant to the hidden Chinese agenda.


Experts: US Should Worry About Chinese Anti-Satellite Device
By Stephanie Ho
Washington, 13 February 2007

China's destruction of one of its own satellites last month marks a turning point for the United States, in terms of the potential for military confrontation in space.

"It appears that the test in January was the fourth time it had been tested, the first time that it successfully conducted an intercept," he noted.

U.S. space strategists are especially concerned about China's development of radio frequency weapons that could jam transmission signals, as well as its development of ground-based lasers, which could in effect temporarily blind U.S. spy satellites.

"U.S. space planners are most concerned about the launching of small Chinese satellites into orbits that are very close to key U.S. intelligence, reconnaissance and communications satellites," he added. "Such parasite micro-satellites are presumed to be time bombs that could blind or cripple American military operations, not to mention communications and even U.S. financial communications, any communications, civilian communications."

Did Chinese Operatives Hunt Down a 14 Year Old Girl on U.S. Soil? Part II

Feb 12, 2007

NEW YORK—A Beijing girl held against her will by Chinese authorities here in the United States—and thought to be in imminent danger of abuse or torture should she be returned to China—is now safe. Grave concerns are now being raised for the girl's family still in China.

U.S. Customs Agents detained 14-year-old Youran Zhao (pronounced "yo-ran jow") and her two official chaperones at JFK airport in New York City Sunday afternoon as they were getting ready to board a flight scheduled to depart for China at 3:30 p.m. Agents held them until her aunt and legal guardian, Ms. Xiufen Zhang, arrived with her lawyer.

Zhang and Youran then left the airport by a side exit in order to avoid Chinese agents they feared would be in the vicinity. According to Mr. Yonglin Chen, a former Chinese Embassy official who defected in Australia in 2005, Chinese authorities have previously kidnapped foreign nationals back to China for punishment. The Chinese regime considers defections or asylum a blow to the Chinese Communist Party's esteem.

Did Chinese Operatives Hunt Down a 14 Year Old Girl on U.S. Soil?

An amazing story took place of several days within the U.S., yet the story got ZERO play in the popular media.

Cover For Action excited to provide the news for you.

Feb 11, 2007,

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The whereabouts of a Beijing girl named Youran Zhao, reportedly to be kidnapped in Boston by the chaperon of her student tour group between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 11, is still unknown. The American police are currently searching for the 14-year-old girl. Zhao's aunt Xiufen Zhang, a resident of New Jersey, is calling the public for help to locate her niece.

Zhao and her entire family practice Falun Gong. Zhao was selected to be part of a school tour for a winter camp in Los Angeles on January 30 this year. Prior to her departure from Beijing, Zhao contacted her uncle and aunt in New Jersey over the phone and email, expressing her wish to meet them in the U.S.

"But the Chinese Communist regime's Public Security Bureau (PSB) has been surreptitiously listening to our conversations and reading our emails. Before Youran's departure for the U.S., the PSB has threatened her family to arrest them and send them to China's gulag system, or fire their jobs in the Chinese government, if she were to meet with us in the U.S.," says Ms. Zhang.

Ms. Zhang learned that Youran's cell phone had been confiscated by the leaders of the tour group and they warned Youran again not to contact her aunt.

Ms. Zhang recalled, "When they took her away, I argued with the delegation for a long time. I fear that she would face persecution if she were to be removed to China."

After Ms. Zhang reported to the police, the study group's bus was greeted by the Boston police on the morning of February 11, but she was nowhere to be found. The police interrogated the group and learned that Zhao had been removed by two people from the group earlier.

According to the spokesperson of Falun Dafa Information Center, Mr. Kangang Xu, the child is not under any protection right now and faces the persecution of the Chinese Communist regime. She is in imminent danger.

According to an undisclosed American official, the delegation has decided to remove the child to China on the day of the kidnapping.

Chinese Harrassment: Telephone Blast

Sometime ago I read an article about the Falun Gong receiving harassing phone calls from suspected CHICOM numbers deep within Bejing. I have to tell you, it sounded kinda odd. After posting a few articles on the Falun Gong, Cover For Action was contacted by concerned Falun Gong members who told a simlar story: being harrassed by phone.

I asked practitioners if they could provide me a copy of the phone message, so that I could hear it for myself. My initial plan was to post it for all readers to hear. But after some thought and discussion, it came to pass that posting the audio file would simply propagate what the CCP was trying to do: push out hate propaganda.

So readers, you'll have to take my word. I heard the file... it's a spooky automated bit of propaganda. For the most part, it's a demoralizing bit of wasted air canted at poking fun of the Falun Gong. In my grown up world, the calls seemed like school yard antics. But hey, whoever said the Chinese Communist Party was mature and responsible.

I should also note, many of the people who emailed me commented they felt intimated, scared, and harassed by the calls. The volume, duration, and frequency of the calls also seemed to serve as a telephonic Denial of Services too.

Discrimination, Hate Messages among Chinese Exports to U.S

Beginning Feb. 6, repeated calls were made to hundreds of people in more than 20 countries in a well-coordinated fashion. Friends whose mobile phones rang at the same time picked up and heard the same pre-recorded messages in Chinese or English.

Speakers at the Tuesday press conference described unlisted numbers in the U.S. being bombarded with calls and a feeling of invasion of privacy. They said that no group besides the
CCP has the ability and the motive to track down and call so many people in another country so systematically.

The pre-recorded messages were all against the practice of Falun Gong, and some also included Chinese nationalist messages. “My husband and daughter received calls, which disturbed us greatly,” said Ma Lili, a New York businesswoman who was forced to leave China after
Falun Gong began to be persecuted in 1999. Her friends in China were invited in to have a “conversation” with Chinese national security at the same time that the calls were being made.
Many recipients of the phone calls reported them to local police and intelligence agencies, such as the FBI.

The U.S. House of Representatives took note of CCP activities against Falun Gong practitioners on U.S. soil in its 2004 concurrent resolution 304, which calls for reporting and investigation
of such activities.