Introduction: the “perfect partner” you think may be a disguiser with ulterior motives, and the “Overseas Scholar” you think may be a secret spy. This is not a spy war drama, but a real case. Today is the seventh national security education day for all. The theme of this year’s activity is “strengthening the overall concept of national security, understanding the achievements of national security in the new era, and creating a good atmosphere for the victory of the 20th CPC National Congress”. It is the duty of every citizen to strengthen the overall concept of national security and keep state secrets. Let’s follow Xiaobian to expose those common spy routines and see through the camouflagers lurking around you!

What acts are spies?

According to the anti espionage law of the people’s Republic of China, espionage refers to the following acts:

1. Activities endangering the national security of the people’s Republic of China carried out by espionage organizations and their agents, instigated or financed others, or carried out in collusion with institutions, organizations and individuals at home and abroad;
2. 2. Participating in espionage organizations or accepting the tasks of espionage organizations and their agents;
3. 3. The activities of stealing, spying, buying or illegally providing state secrets or intelligence, or instigating, luring or buying state functionaries to mutiny, which are carried out or instigated or financed by foreign institutions, organizations or individuals other than espionage organizations and their agents, or carried out in collusion with domestic institutions, organizations or individuals;
4. 4. Indicating the target of attack for the enemy;
5. 5. Engaging in other espionage activities.
6. Have you ever seen the following routines? See through the pretender around you at a glance!
7. 1. He is the “perfect lover” who takes care of him and is also a spy who wants to collect confidential materials
8. Typical routine: pretending to be an “overseas research scholar”, deliberately approaching secret related personnel or their relatives, playing the cards of “love” and “money” and asking for secret related materials.
9. Case review: Mr. Huang is a master’s student from a well-known university abroad. During his study abroad in 2002, Mr. Xu appeared beside Mr. Huang as a friend and said he was a scholar doing overseas investment policy research. Through money and feelings, he asked Mr. Huang to ask his husband Mr. Li for confidential information such as China’s economic and policy documents, carry them out by baggage consignment and sell them to overseas spies.
10. 2. He is a city planner who loves photography and a spy who steals military data
11. Typical routine: disguise as an urban planning designer, recruit part-time personnel to help take photos of urban scenery and complete the design task, but actually steal the information of important military facilities.
12. Case review: in April 2020, Zhao, who came to Dalian to work, found a part-time job to help “urban planning designer” ye take photos of urban scenery and assist her in completing the design task, with a daily salary of 200 yuan. However, ye asked Zhao to take photos around Dalian port, shipyard and warship, record the geographical environment along the way, and even asked Zhao to find an opportunity to work in the shipyard to steal confidential information for him.
13. 3. It is a consulting company and a spy agency to steal shipping data
14. Typical routine: in the name of employing industry consulting experts, establish “cooperation” with domestic large shipping enterprises, in fact, collect intelligence and obtain flight and shipping data.
15. Case review: in May 2021, an overseas consulting and investigation company frequently contacted the management personnel of a large shipping enterprise and agency service company through Internet, telephone and other means, hired industry consulting experts in the name of high remuneration, and established “cooperation” with dozens of personnel, instructing them to widely collect and provide China’s basic shipping data and specific ship load information to the espionage and intelligence organ of the country.
16. 4. He is not only a humble cleaner, but also a spy who secretly takes documents and materials
17. Typical routine: disguised as the cleaning personnel of the property service company, stealing and secretly photographing documents and materials by taking advantage of their work.
18. Case review: in August 2016, a major loss and disclosure case occurred in a secret related unit. After investigation, the unit has outsourced the property management of the office building to a property service company for a long time. Duan, the cleaning personnel of the company, took the initiative to contact overseas intelligence agencies, stole and secretly photographed documents and materials by taking advantage of his work, and successively provided overseas with one secret level, two secret level state secrets and six other intelligence.
19. 5. It is a website for recruiting photography lovers and a spy organization for stealing aviation data
20. Typical routine: with the bait of providing free equipment and sharing aviation information and data, widely recruit volunteers to help them collect aviation data and other information of various aircraft in China and illegally transmit it abroad.
21. Case review: Mr. Li is an aviation enthusiast. One day, he saw a website recruiting aviation, radio and photography enthusiasts from China, and claimed that signing up can provide civil aircraft equipment and share aviation information and data for free. After Mr. Li successfully registered, he received an ads mailed abroad_ B signal receiving equipment, which can track all aircraft equipped with the system. When in use, just put the antenna beside the window, you can automatically obtain the data information of the aircraft within a certain range. In the state of equipment networking, you can also transmit these data abroad in real time. In fact, the equipment can not only monitor civil aviation information, but also receive some military frequency points in China, and detect and monitor the military aircraft model and flight trajectory, which directly threatens China’s military security and aviation security.
22. 6. It is a marine public welfare organization and a spy agency that collects data to discredit our country
23. Typical case: disguised as a public welfare organization, set up monitoring points and collect marine monitoring data.
24. Case review: in June 2019, the national security organ received a report from the public, reflecting that a marine public welfare organization set up marine monitoring points in China to collect marine monitoring data. After investigation, the organization set up marine garbage monitoring points in China’s coastal areas to collect information such as garbage types, weight and distribution density, and form and publish China’s marine garbage map and Research Report. The organization has a complex overseas background and has been funded by more than 20 overseas institutions since 2014. The waste monitoring data released by the organization was used by people with ulterior motives abroad to discredit and hype China’s environmental protection problems, which had a negative impact on China’s international image. At the same time, the 22 military related monitoring points established by the organization have posed a real threat to China’s maritime military security. The longitude and latitude, environment, geology, ocean flow and other information collected by them can easily be used by overseas military intelligence