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.

China's Easy Target: FALUN GONG

Reports continue to expand on one of the most amazing stories in 2006: China harvests organs from prisoners. The Falun Gong have been claiming that China is taking the organs from arrested Falun Gong practitioners... most arrests are unjustified and inhumane. Now we begin to see the Chinese Military connection to the practice. As this story unfolds, we will have to decide if China is ready to stand with the civilized world, and be considered an equal.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

January 31, 2007: Investigations into the growing organ transplant industry in China indicate that a major player is the Chinese military. There is a worldwide shortage of organs for transplant. Since China still executes hundreds of criminals each year, and has thousands of political prisoners, who often go into prison camps and just disappear, there always seems to be available organs for transplant in China. Desperate, and well heeled, foreigners come to China, get their life-saving transplant, and notice that there are a lot of military personnel working in the hospitals. The military is a major player in Chinese medical care, with a large network of hospitals for its millions of troops and their dependents.

Study: China's Army Harvesting Body Parts From Live Prisoners, Particularly Falun Gong Members

China's military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale — including to foreign recipients — according to a study.

The report's authors — Canada's former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas — implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.

"The involvement of the People's Liberation Army in these transplants is widespread,'' Kilgour said at a press conference.

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?

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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 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.

The PRC is Jamming TV Again!!!!!

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The document, translated at the bottom of this article, orders that the NTDTV New Year Show should be destroyed by "any and all means", and if not possible, to "contain them and minimize their impact."

The Chicago affiliate of NBC (the U.S. National Broadcast Company), WMAQ Channel 5, reported Feb. 6 on the interference with the Spectacular in Chicago,"Someone in China has been tying up their phone lines, and the consulate has been calling the event's sponsors, including NBC 5 T.V."

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

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."

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.

Exposed: Chinese Black Operations On U.S. Soil - Part II

Last year a Chinese Diplomat who defected to Australia appeared before the U.S. Congress to share the horror that caused him to defect. One always must question his motivation. At the time he appeared, he had already received asylum from Australia. Inflating stories and providing a fantasy tale to the U.S. gave him no benefit. Therefore, Cover For Action assumes his sworn testimony to be factual. Moreover, his statement is in line with other reports, giving it additional credence.

In his testimony he said there are thousands of informants working covertly, against the Falun Gong. He also indicated that Embassy's (missions...consulates etc.) have "at least" one official overseeing these operations.

This is nothing short of a BOMBSHELL! What he essentially said here is that Chinese Diplomatic missions within U.S. territory are launching black operations on U.S. citizens. This is powerful on many fronts: a. Chinese Covert operations are present on U.S. soil, operating out of Embassy's. and b. Chinese Covert operatives are targeting U.S. citizens (Falun Gong).

This is like saying that KGB operatives are targeting U.S. citizens. POWERFUL. Somehow though, I think if were the KGB, the story would get more play. We treat China with such Kid Gloves.

In doing a little research for this post, I was shocked and amazed at the the vast amount of congressional testimony which exists on this topic. Since the early 2000's Congress has been discussing how Chinese Covert operatives are working on U.S. soil: Covert Break-ins, Phone Intercepts, Assaults, etc. etc. again... VERY VERY SPOOKY. I'm spooked just writing this blog.


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Mr Chen repeated claims that more than 1000 Chinese secret agents and informants were tracking and persecuting Falun Gong members. "In each Chinese mission overseas, there must be at least one official in charge of Falun Gong affairs, he said.

By Jonathon Browde WASHINGTON, DC

Mr. Chen described the organization of Chinese missions worldwide, saying they are divided into two categories: diplomatic and intelligence gathering. Those working to gather intelligence, Mr. Chen said, report directly back to Beijing and not their local mission, allowing Beijing to
use missions worldwide as a vast spy network.

The US House passed a resolution in September 2004 condemning the CCP for spying on and harassing Americans who practise Falun Gong. The resolution listed instances of breaking and entering as well as assault and battery. Mr. Chen also told the committee that the CCP
controls most Chinese-language media in the West, including the U.S., largely through dictating advertisement revenue through Chinese-owned businesses. With this control, the CCP can re-iterate the Party line in Chinese communities throughout the US.

Is Chinese Military Assassin’s Mace: Organ Harvesting?

Reports continue to expand on one of the most amazing stories in 2006: China harvests organs from prisoners. The Falun Gong have been claiming that China is taking the organs from arrested Falun Gong practitioners... most arrests are unjustified and inhumane. Now we begin to see the Chinese Military connection to the practice. As this story unfolds, we will have to decide if China is ready to stand with the civilized world, and be considered an equal.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

January 31, 2007: Investigations into the growing organ transplant industry in China indicate that a major player is the Chinese military. There is a worldwide shortage of organs for transplant. Since China still executes hundreds of criminals each year, and has thousands of political prisoners, who often go into prison camps and just disappear, there always seems to be available organs for transplant in China. Desperate, and well heeled, foreigners come to China, get their life-saving transplant, and notice that there are a lot of military personnel working in the hospitals. The military is a major player in Chinese medical care, with a large network of hospitals for its millions of troops and their dependents.

Study: China's Army Harvesting Body Parts From Live Prisoners, Particularly Falun Gong Members

China's military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale — including to foreign recipients — according to a study.

The report's authors — Canada's former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas — implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.

"The involvement of the People's Liberation Army in these transplants is widespread,'' Kilgour said at a press conference.