{"id":3093,"date":"2020-06-17T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackopspartners.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:54:00","slug":"former-cia-station-chief-daniel-hoffman-the-us-is-under-siege-by-chinese-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/former-cia-station-chief-daniel-hoffman-the-us-is-under-siege-by-chinese-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA station chief Daniel Hoffman: The US is ‘under siege’ by Chinese espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The United States is under siege by\u00a0Chinese<\/a>\u00a0espionage<\/a>, former CIA Station Chief\u00a0Daniel Hoffman<\/a>\u00a0asserted Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview on\u00a0‘America’s Newsroom”<\/a>\u00a0with host\u00a0Ed Henry, the Fox News contributor explained that Chinese spies are targeting American\u00a0academics<\/a>,\u00a0researchers<\/a>,\u00a0businesses<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0national security<\/a>\u00a0officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “They\u2019re also sending their own to our country because they\u2019re trying to take advantage of our very open democratic system to steal our\u00a0intellectual property<\/a>,” he added.\u00a0“And, it is of great concern and I\u2019m sure of heightened interest in the\u00a0Congress<\/a>\u00a0as well as our Executive Branch for how to come up with better solutions to counter this.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In November of 2019, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and FBI<\/a> began an intensive and sweeping investigation into scientists who were stealing biomedical research for other countries. According to the New York Times<\/a>, all of the incidents uncovered involved scientists of Chinese descent. Critics of the probe<\/a> questioned whether the focus on Chinese Americans amounted to racial profiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China’s actions have been under magnified scrutiny over the past couple of months following the spread of the fatal coronavirus contagion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hoffman said that while there was concern about China’s targeted infiltrations and “full-court press,” he urged that the U.S. needs better public-private partnerships with higher institutes of learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “And, NIH\u00a0for example has got to have a better foreign contact program where they don’t just report all of their interactions with foreigners. In particular, with [the] Chinese,” he pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Hoffman, China is operating with the intention of penetrating U.S. government research by enticing American scientists with offers of\u00a0financial assistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “They for sure want to steal our secrets when it comes to the COVID\u00a0vaccine<\/a>. They might even want to try to interfere with what we\u2019re doing to impede our progress for finding a vaccine in our own country,” he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hoffman told Henry he “wouldn’t put it past” the Chinese to “want the rest of the world to suffer the same economic<\/a> consequences that they are suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n