China announced on Friday that it has just discovered a “case of espionage” involving a Chinese national called Zeng who delivered “core secret information” for money to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
“After meticulous investigation, the state security authority obtained evidence of Zeng’s espionage activities and, in accordance with the law, took coercive measures against him to eliminate the harm in a timely manner,” Beijing’s Ministry of State Security said in a statement published online.
According to the statement, Zeng, 52, was sent to Italy for studies, where he befriended a CIA agent stationed at the US embassy in Rome.
According to the statement, this individual persuaded Zeng to supply “sensitive information on the (Chinese) military” in exchange for “a huge amount of compensation” and support for Zeng and his family to relocate to the United States.
