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China general reveals spy cases in web footage. 29 August 2011Last updated at 13:39 By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing Gen Jin said some officials had been charged with economic crimes to avoid embarrassment Video footage showing a Chinese general talking about sensitive spy cases has appeared on the internet. In the video, Maj Gen Jin Yinan complains that there are many Communist Party members who have "turned rotten" and sold secrets to foreign countries.

China has not commented on the video, which is an embarrassing incident for a country that does not like to talk about spy cases. It shows Gen Jin giving a lecture at Beijing's National Defence University. With a tea cup by his side, the senior officer lifts the lid on a number of recent spy cases. He talks about a Chinese ambassador in Seoul who passed on sensitive material to the South Koreans.

The authorities caught the ambassador but charged him with economic crimes because they were too embarrassed to reveal his real wrong-doing, says Gen Jin. Chinese secret service. Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China. The Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China (MSS) is the security agency of the People's Republic of China, responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence and political security.

It is headquartered near the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Law gives the MSS the same authority to arrest or detain people as regular police for crimes involving state security with identical supervision by the procuratorates and the courts.[1] The offices of the Bureau of State Security and Bureau of Public Security in Hubei Province (Wuhan) The precursor of the modern MSS was the Central Department of Social Affairs (CDSA), the primary intelligence organ of the Communist Party of China (CPC) before its accession to power in 1949. Agency heads are known as Minister of State Security (MSS), reporting directly to the State Council.[6] The MSS is divided into bureaus, which at one point were: Coordinates: Spies Among High-Ranking Officials. From Mao to the Olympic Games. A year before the Olympic Games, investigative reporter Roger Faligot was in Beijing in order to finalize the research of his book on the Chinese intelligence service from Mao Zedong’s era until today.

Not only did he monitor their activities over the last twenty years since he published a first book on the Chinese in 1987, but he also studied Chinese, Japanese, Russian, US and European files, Shanghai and Hong Kong colonial police archives, and interviewed Chinese specialists and defectors as well as counter-spies who oppose them in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, in Australia, Europe and North America. The chinese secret service From mao to the Olympic Games Outline of the Chapters Chapter 1. The Battle for Shanghai This chapter reveals the facets of early CCP (Chinese Communist Party) intelligence operations. How young Mao narrowly escaped arrest from French detectives at the launching of the CCP in Shanghai in 1921. Chapter 2.

Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7.