Leaked Chinese Communist Party records show CCP members employed in senior, specialist and advisory positions
The Communist Party operatives were discovered at 10 consulates in Shanghai
In a coordinated effort lasting more than a decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used a recruitment agency to infiltrate British, Australian, and U.S. consulates in Shanghai.
A new report from The Australian said leaked membership records revealed information regarding almost two million CCP members, leading to the discovery that 10 consulates in the Eastern city have Communist Party workers.
The members are serving as senior political and government affairs specialists, economic advisers, clerks, and executive assistants, according to the paper.
The database which was sent to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China in mid-September shows that CCP members are or have been employed by British, German, Swiss, Indian, New Zealand, Italian, and South African missions in the coastal metropolis and through the Shanghai Foreign Agency Service Department.
In addition, the breach also exposed CCP members at companies like airline giant Boeing and COVID-19 vaccine-maker Pfizer.
After a confidential source allegedly sent The Australian a more complete version of the database, cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 tracked the data to April of 2016.
Some of the 92 million CCP operatives were found at American universities over the summer, following the July closure of Houston's Chinese consulate.
The U.S. government uncovered an intelligence operation to collect scientific research in fields such as biomedicine and artificial intelligence.
The Trump administration and Department of Justice have pledged to crack down harder on the East Asian power player, reporting in November than around 80% of all economic espionage prosecutions brought by the Justice Department "allege conduct that would benefit the Chinese state," and that "there is at least some nexus to China in around 60% of all trade secret theft cases."
In September, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf announced the revocation of more than 1,000 visas mostly held by graduate students and researchers after a string of federal charges were brought against students at schools like Harvard University, Boston University, Emory University, and the University of California San Francisco.
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