In the past two days, nothing has been stirred up on the Internet than the recruitment of agents by the CIA, the most important thing is that the conditions are eye-catching, that is, they know Chinese, and it is best to master Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka, etc.
When Brother Li saw this job advertisement, he couldn't help but be stunned, is this unclear rush to China? It is simply a disguised "traitor" in China!
Some experts say that flies are looking for eggs to sew, and where is the Chinese seam?
Obviously, it's Taiwan, and more likely Hong Kong...
On the evening of October 16, Hong Kong Secretary for Security Tang Bing-keung responded to the CIA's recruitment of agents, saying that espionage had already occurred in Hong Kong as early as 2019, and through the case of Li Yuxuan, who had "escaped from the Twelve Secrets", he learned that a CIA employee working at a newspaper under the newspaper of the leader of the chaos in Hong Kong, Lai Chi-ying, lured two young people to foreign countries to engage in activities that endangered national security, that is, to become "spies".
But in Hong Kong's law, "espionage" is still "blank", so Hong Kong has always been called an "undefended city".
Many netizens feel that "spies" should be brave and resourceful tough guys like Bond, the protagonist of the movie "007", or a superhero with a face and brain like Natasha Romanov in "Black Widow".
In fact, these film characters are all Western glorifications of "spies". A spy is a person who sneaks into a hostile force or competitor, engages in secret spying on intelligence, or carries out sabotage activities to benefit the party he serves, also known as the detailed work in ancient times.
Hong Kong spies are more active than you could have imagined
Internationally, there are "three major spy capitals" and "three major cold war secret service centers", of which the "three major spy capitals" are Hong Kong, China, Lisbon, Portugal, and Casablanca, Morocco, while the "three major cold war secret service centers" are Hong Kong, China, Berlin, Germany, and Istanbul, Turkey.
And it is. The U.S. top-secret network surveillance project "Us-984xn" was exposed in Hong Kong, which began to be implemented in 2007 and included hacking into Chinese mainland and Computers in Hong Kong, including hong Kong Chinese University, various government and private institutions, political and business people and students.
Project Prism was exposed by Edward Snowden, a former technical analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. In May 2013, Snowden flew from Hawaii to Hong Kong, China, and stayed at the mira hotel. Here, he handed over about 200,000 NSA documents to the British Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, and the sensational "Prism Gate Incident" was unveiled.
Snowden's choice of Hong Kong was not a whim. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, Hong Kong was already the British "Far East Intelligence Center". After the founding of New China, Hong Kong became an important base for Western intelligence gathering. After Hong Kong's return to the motherland, all kinds of espionage activities are still active. First, the "illegal Occupy Central" that lasted for more than two months in 2014, then the Mong Kok riots in 2016, and then the "amendment storm" in 2019, all of which have the ghosts of foreign spies.
Spy and look at the United States
To say that espionage, of course, is the most blatant in the United States, and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a spy agency with a brand. CIA has been around for more than 70 years since its founding in 1947 and is an "old" spy agency.
As early as last June, the CIA had openly recruited spies through their mainstream media" New York Daily, and a dazzling "job advertisement" jumped out, which clearly required the recruitment of spies, agents, etc. with special skills, and paid well.
In the years since the establishment of the CIA, there have been many bad things, such as assassinations, thefts, subversion, infiltration, paramilitary operations, and proxy wars.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea depicted in the film "Lake Chosin" was also involved in the CIA. At that time, the CIA misjudged that "China will not send troops to Korea", but China not only sent troops, but eventually won the war.
Although the CIA has suffered losses in China, there is no shortage of groundbreaking moves in various other large and small dazzling operations that should not be taken lightly.
Among them, the "proud works" of recent years are none other than "assassinating os-jain bin Laden" and "plotting anti-China chaos in Hong Kong."
Brother Li will first talk about "assassinating bin Laden". You will surely remember the 2011 U.S. assault in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden was killed by soldier shouts and intense gunfire as a signal flares lit up the night sky and helicopters roared.
Later declassified documents showed that the "killing of bin Laden" was instrumental to the CIA. In the decade since the United States and the Taliban were on fire, CIA "spies" had already moved to Pakistan first, collecting intelligence, engaging with anti-Taliban forces, bribing informants and local tribal leaders, and finally intercepting the mobile phone signals of bin Laden's cronies, thus successfully carrying out the "decapitation operation".
In the 2019 Hong Kong legislative amendment storm, the ghost of the CIA flashed again, this time thanks to a photo by the media. In the photo, Julie Ed, director of the political department of the US Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macao, who is known as the "mother of subversion," is conspiring with Joshua Wong, Law Guancong, and others who are "anti-China and chaotic in Hong Kong."
After the exposure of this photo, public opinion was in an uproar, and it turned out that There was no shortage of "spies" in Hong Kong, but ordinary people lacked the eyes of "discovery". Snowden, a former employee of the US CIA, has revealed that at least 15 staff members of the US consulate in Hong Kong are CIA agents. Nowadays, after the "black riot" in Hong Kong, most citizens realize that espionage, infiltration, and subversion are not far away from Hong Kong.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, who was the director of the CIA, said bluntly: "I was the director of the CIA, we lied, we cheated, we stole." This is the glory of the United States' continuous exploration and progress." Pon's quote, a surprising quote, once again focused the world's attention on what he called the "center of fraud" - the CIA.
China has become a key target of the US "espionage war", and Hong Kong may be an important foothold for it
On October 7 this year, william Burns, the director of the CIA, announced that he would reorganize the CIA and set up a high-standard "China Mission Center" for the first time to study how to use "the method of dealing with the Soviet Union during the Cold War to the current work on China" in an attempt to use the "Soviet model" to suppress China, a move that was also supported by the hawkish Republican Senator Rubio and other political sticks. In the next step, the United States may mobilize more resources to carry out "espionage warfare" against China, and the CIA recruitment fair will be the best proof of mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, and Hakka people as agents.
For so many years, Hong Kong has been considered the "capital of espionage" for some reason: First, Hong Kong has a special geographical location for foreign forces to interfere in the mainland springboard, and is regarded as the best intelligence collection base by spies from various countries; second, there is no corresponding counter-espionage law, so that foreign forces and spies can come and go freely, and it is difficult to deter foreign spies.
As Hong Kong is China's "southern gate," the newly established "China Mission Center" set up by the United States is very likely to use it as an important foothold for "espionage" activities, which has added a layer of hidden worries to Hong Kong's social stability.
The good news is that the Hong Kong SAR government has recognized this risk, and secretary for security Tang Ping-keung said it was necessary for the authorities to respond to the CIA's announcement of the establishment of a "China Mission Center" and revealed that Article 23 of the Basic Law may strengthen the focus on espionage-related crimes when legislating.
Indeed, an undefended Hong Kong is like an unconcealed chicken coop. We look forward to the promulgation of Hong Kong's counter-espionage laws as soon as possible, so that loopholes can be plugged and Hong Kong's hard-won stability and national security can be safeguarded.
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