There is no free lunch in the world
In recent years, with the continuous expansion of my country's high-level opening up to the outside world, more and more companies have gone abroad to invest or project cooperation overseas. The work of the national security agencies found that overseas espionage and intelligence agencies regard the personnel of our related companies working abroad as key targets and do everything possible to recruit and incite rebellion. Liu, a foreign employee of a Chinese-funded company, encountered this situation.
Actively stick to each other and frequently show kindness
Liu is the person in charge of an overseas project of a Chinese-funded enterprise and has been stationed in a certain country for a long time. At an event, Liu got acquainted with C, who was stationed there from another country. This enthusiastic foreigner spoke fluent Chinese and took the initiative to chat with him, which made Liu, who is also a "foreigner", feel more cordial. During the conversation, Liu felt that the two had similar interests. They both liked traveling, drinking and eating, so he exchanged business cards with C for future contact.
One day, Liu received a call from an unknown number. After answering the call, he discovered that it was C, who invited him out for dinner. Mr. C said that he wanted to separate his life and work, so he used his personal number to contact Mr. Liu, while the business number on his business card was his work number. After that, C invited Liu through the private number. The two often met for dinner and drinks, and occasionally traveled. In most cases, C rushed to pay. Liu was also worried about this, but C said that he and Liu were very close, and his company's allowances were better. Liu believed that treating guests to dinner was a normal human interaction, so he no longer felt anything wrong.
"Cooperation" talks collapsed and relations became estranged
At first, Mr. C was only concerned about Mr. Liu’s personal situation and asked him what position he held in the company and what work he was responsible for. Liu thought this was a mutual concern between friends, so he introduced the relevant situation to C. Later, C began to inquire about other projects with great interest, and asked Liu to help him get to know the person in charge of the relevant project. Liu agreed verbally but did not implement it.
It was difficult for C to understand other situations, so he proposed to cooperate with Liu in doing business and use Liu’s domestic network resources to promote investment projects for enterprises in C’s country. Mr. C said that the non-civilian field is most favored by domestic capital investors. If Mr. Liu can introduce such projects, he can get more intermediary fees from them. It happened that Liu had an acquaintance in this field, so he agreed to cooperate. C immediately took out the contract written in his own language. Although C explained the contents of the contract to Liu, Liu still felt it was not safe, so he proposed to use software to take pictures and translate it, but C refused on the spot. Liu felt that C's behavior was abnormal, so he did not sign the contract hastily, and he also made excuses to shirk his subsequent invitations many times. Slowly, C stopped contacting Liu.
Suddenly realized, take the initiative to report
Shortly after returning to China, Liu participated in the anti-espionage and anti-espionage case publicity activities carried out by his unit. He saw that the typical tactics used by overseas spy agencies to coerce and incite rebellion were very similar to C's enthusiasm for him, so he took the initiative to report his interactions with C to the leadership of his unit.
After careful investigation by the national security agency, Mr. C was confirmed to be a spy of a certain country. In view of the fact that Liu's department took the initiative to report and did not cause substantial harm to China's national security interests, the national security agency decided not to pursue legal responsibility against him in accordance with the law and guided him to do safety precautions.
National security agency reminder
In recent years, a series of cases uncovered by national security agencies have shown that overseas espionage and intelligence agencies pay close attention to China’s key personnel stationed abroad, and use their identities as “close friends” and “partners” as cover in an attempt to collect intelligence and recruit people to incite rebellion. Chinese personnel stationed abroad should be highly vigilant and take effective precautions.
——Make friends carefully and pay attention to everything. Keep a distance from strangers who take the initiative to show kindness and whose background is unknown, and do not let down your guard because of the sophistication of the world.
——Stick to the bottom line and keep your mouth shut. Do not disclose state secrets or sensitive internal company information to any unrelated persons. Don’t passively answer, don’t offer proactively, and don’t communicate privately.
