The Chinese Ministry of State Security has revealed the name of the spy recruited by the CIA in Rome. This is a certain Zeng, born in July 1971 who worked for a military industrial group and had access to important classified information. Without ever naming the company, the Beijing authorities only said that Zeng was in Italy to study on behalf of his company and that he would have met an American official from the Rome embassy who, in exchange for a better life in the US, would have extorted military information confidential to the Chinese citizen (the gender of the unfaithful Chinese citizen was never revealed).
According to the note from the Beijing ministry, the American is said to be a "Seth" who, thanks to dinners, trips and evenings at the opera, would have circumvented Zeng, making him gradually and psychologically dependent on Western values, even making his own political beliefs waver.
Also the Chinese Ministry of Security then specified that “As the exchanges between the two deepened, Seth revealed to Zeng that he was a member of the CIA's Rome base, asking Zeng to provide him with sensitive information on the Chinese military, promising to pay a huge sum of money and help the his family to emigrate to the United States".
The plot had thickened so much that Zeng "he even signed an espionage agreement with the Americans and also received training".
After completing his studies in Italy Zeng returned to China where “he continued to meet secretly with CIA personnel many times, providing a wealth of vital information“. Zeng is now in prison, the ministry concludes in the note.
The war of spies between the US and China has begun a long time ago, but at the end of July the director of the CIA, William Burns, declared that the American agency had made progress in rebuilding its espionage networks in China. In response, Beijing has launched a countrywide campaign to mobilize counterintelligence activities, inviting Chinese citizens to report suspected cases.
On August 3, the US arrested two US Navy sailors accused of providing military information to Chinese intelligence officials.
Since last July XNUMX in China there is a new anti-espionage law in which all documents, data, materials and articles relating to national security are subjected to the same protection as state secrets.
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