Sunday, March 20, 2011
Chinese Espionage
As I was watching 60 minutes the other day, there was a story brought up about chinese espionage. The Chinese, they say, find America to be there biggest threat when it comes to military weapons. The way the Chinese get information about America is the same way America gets there information about China, through spies. A man who had citizenship in the United States was a small business owner, who wanted to expand his business in China. China granted the man his business licenses, but they had a little favor they wanted from him. They wanted him to steal secrets from the pentagon, which the man just so happened he knew a guy. Over a series of months, the FBI recorded the transactions as the Chinese man wine and dined the man with the secrets from the pentagon. The chinese man posed as a guy wanting to know what military weapons the US was going to be selling to Vietnam, but really he was sending the information to the chinese government. Both men were arrested with a sentence of five years each. When the reporter said to the FBI "well isn't that how American gets there secrets from the chinese"? No response was given to that question.
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That is a really interesting article. I wonder just how much of this stuff actually goes on. It would be easy to believe and would really help to boost movie sales. Just think about if all the countries had bragging sessions about all the espionage they actually pulled off and made movies based on them? I bet the international movie industry would have a hoot and make a killing. It would probably instill some national pride and create some problems but who cares. The public would have some honest answers and the movies would be so fantastic that nobody would seriously believe it.
ReplyDeleteBaugh. We're all spying on each other. Get over it.
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