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How China's 'Perfect' Spy Got Caught | Bloomberg Investigates
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He was kind of awkward.
He was very goofy.
He does not read like a Chinese spy.
I at least had in my head this idea of a spy
of James Bond.
Somebody jumping out of airplanes and that is not Ji.
This story is about aviation secrets,
in particular, jet engine trade secrets.
These are technologies that China wants very badly.
It was in the paper every day.
What China is alleged to be stealing en masse
from the United States.
The playbook is simple.
Rob, replicate and replace.
We cannot tolerate a nation
that steals the fruits of our brainpower.
Ji was almost like a pack rat when it came
to electronic information.
You have text messages, you have videos, you have photos,
you have so much digital evidence about what he was doing.
What type of real spy is going to take a photo
of a top secret blood oath?
No one. Mr. Bean would do that. He was almost like a kid.
I think it was clear Ji was a stand-in for some
of the bigger conflicts that were going on
between China and the United States.
His goal was to get US citizenship.
To become an intelligence officer.
Ji was on that path.
When I met Ji, I just thought he was this cute,
quirky guy.
He felt like an extrovert to me
because he just, I don't know, was so goofy
and would talk to anyone.
He really did have a pureness to him.
He just, you know, seemed like he just wanted to do good.
To have such a happy-go-lucky personality takes
so much energy,
it feels like it would be authentic.
But who's to say?
I've covered China for a long time
and Ji Chaoqun in many ways is kind
of the prototypical college kid for most of this story.
He goes to a very prestigious university,
the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
and he studied aviation engineering.
This is a very important topic for the Chinese government.
Jet engines are one of the hardest
to replicate technologies.
These were developed primarily during World War II
and for many decades the US and Europe have held a monopoly.
China has expended a lot of effort
and energy on stealing those technologies.
Or trying to.
Ji is at a job fair about six months
before he is set to graduate with his engineering degree
and he sees this kind of mysteriously labeled booth
where there's a person who's purporting
to be a professor recruiting for what he only describes
as a confidential unit.
It doesn't take long for Ji to realize
that he's being recruited
for the Ministry of State Security,
China's premier intelligence agency.
MSS stands for the Ministry of State Security
and it's basically China's main intelligence agency.
Think of a combination between the CIA and the FBI.
The MSS doesn't really see a distinction between spying
for the government and spying for Chinese companies
and getting the kind of secrets they would be interested in
in their attempt to catch up and surpass their competitors.
The vast majority of the actual MSS officers stay in China
and never leave China, and so there's zero risk to them.
Ji is unusual in that he is someone who is recruited in China
and sent overseas really as an MSS agent.
There are two reasons the MSS was interested in Ji.
One, he had technical knowledge
that could help them identify trade secrets to steal
and the other was that he had a visa to travel
to the US and he was clean.
So in that sense, he's the perfect person to recruit
to go spy in the US.
They are really laying it on thick
that this would be a really cool kind of sexy,
interesting opportunity.
They're taking him out to dinners.
They really wine and dine him.
It was also something that appealed to his sense
of helping his country.
He was into like the military.
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