[ISN] China opens string of spy schools

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:40:05 -0700 (MST)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8596647/China-opens-string-of-spy-schools.html

By Malcolm Moore
Shanghai
The Telegraph
24 June 2011

Last week, China opened its eighth National Intelligence College on the 
campus of Hunan University in the central city of Changsha. Since 
January, similar training schools have opened inside universities in 
Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Qingdao and Harbin.

The move comes amid growing worries in the West at the scale and breadth 
of Chinese intelligence-gathering, with MI5 saying that the Chinese 
government "represents one of the most significant espionage threats to 
the UK".

In February, China allegedly managed to penetrate the Foreign Office's 
internal communications network.

Until now, however, the bulk of Chinese foreign espionage is thought to 
have been conducted primarily by academics and students who are sent to 
the host countries only for a short period of time.

The new schools aim to transform and modernise the Chinese intelligence 
services, producing spies who are trained in the latest methods of data 
collection and analysis. Each school will recruit around 30 to 50 
carefully-selected existing undergraduates each year.

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