Overview
- Former CIA operative J. Michael Waller describes honeypot tactics as psychological warfare aimed at stealing technology and state secrets.
- Risk analyst James Mulvenon reports a recent surge of sophisticated LinkedIn approaches from accounts posing as young Chinese women.
- Mulvenon says two women with detailed event information attempted to enter a Virginia business conference last month but were turned away.
- Waller recounts an encounter in Poland that he reported to authorities, who expelled the suspected Chinese operative within days.
- Reported U.S. countermeasures include a relationship ban for personnel working in China and congressional warnings of more than 60 CCP espionage operations in four years.