Kinesisk spionskandal skakar Australien

 

Just nu skakas Australien av en stor kinesisk spionskandal. 
En ung akademiker har hoppat av till australiska säkerhetstjänsten och bl a avslöjat intressanta fakta om hur Pekingregimen försöker infiltrera Australien (och andra grannländer) med inflytandeagenter. Liqiang har också överlämnat en lista med 17 sidor kinesiska agenter i Australien, Hongkong, Korea och Taiwan.

Australiska experter jämför avhoppet med de sovjetiska KGB-officerarna Petrovs avhopp och avslöjanden på 50-talet. Den gången väcktes politikerna abrupt till det kalla krigets verklighet. Vladimir och Jevdokia Petrov hade tidigare tjänstgjort på sovjetiska ambassaden i Stockholm och kunde därför avslöja en mängd sovjetiska agenter i Sverige... 

A Chinese intelligence defector has reportedly given the Australian government information about entire networks of Chinese undercover spies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia, according to reports. The story of Wang “William” Liqiang, made headlines all over Australia during the weekend, culminating in an entire episode of 60 Minutes Australia about him airing on Sunday. The 26-year-old from China’s eastern Fujian province reportedly defected to Australia in October, while visiting his wife and newborn son, who live in Sydney. He is currently reported to be in a safe house belonging to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO).

Mr. Wang has provided the ASIO with a 17-page sworn statement, in which he details his work as an undercover intelligence officer. He is also said to have shared the identities of senior Chinese intelligence officers in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and to have explained how they organize and implement espionage operations on behalf of Bejing.

In a leading article published on Saturday, The Sydney Morning Herald referred to Mr. Wang as “the first Chinese operative to ever blow his cover” and claimed that he had given the ASIO “a trove of unprecedented inside intelligence” about Chinese espionage operations in Southeast Asia. The newspaper said that the defector had revealed details about entire networks of Chinese intelligence operatives in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He also reportedly provided identifying information about deep-cover Chinese intelligence networks in Australia.

Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, Australian media said yesterday that the ASIO was examining allegations that a Chinese espionage ring tried to recruit an Australian businessman of Chinese background and convince him to run for parliament. According to reports, the spy ring approached Nick Zhao, a successful luxury car dealer, and offered to fund his political campaign with nearly $700,000 (AUS$1 million) if he run as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia. Zhao reportedly told the ASIO about the incident last year, shortly before he was found dead in a Melbourne hotel room. His death remains under investigation.

 

Prominent (s)-politiker sovjetisk inflytandeagent

Mitt i skandalerna kring Labourledaren

Jeremy Corbyns öppna antisemitism

exploderar en gammal skandal på

nytt i det svårt härjade partiet:

Det bekräftas nu att Labourledaren

Michael Foot (ordf 1980-83) var

mångårig sovjetisk inflytandeagent.

Säkerhetstjänsten varnade t o m

Drottning Elisabeth för att ens

överväga att utnämna honom till

premiärminister....

Tilläggas bör att överste Oleg Gordievskij,
som avslöjade Foot, var en av de kalla
krigets okända hjältar.

KGB-rezident i Köpenhamn 1965-82

rekryterades han av MI6 via danska

säkerhetstjänsten och gjorde den

fria världen oskattbara tjänster under

en lång period. Efter sitt avhopp 1985
har han varit en flitig författare. 

Han adlades också i Storbritannien
för sina stora insatser 2007.

Mera om just de sovjetiska inflytande-

agenternas destruktiva arbete.

Personer som Georg Branting, Sverker

Åström och Pierre Schori har alltför
länge tillåtits operera i det tysta
i Sverige....

Välinformerade Intellnews skriver om Foot:

"Foot, a staunch and vocal representative of the postwar

British left, was a member of parliament for over 40 years,

eventually serving as leader of the House of Commons.

rose to the post of deputy leader of the Labour Party

and in 1980 succeeded Jim Callahan as head of the

Party. But he stepped down in 1983 in the aftermath

of Labour’s largest electoral defeat in over

half a century.

Two years later, in 1985, Oleg Gordievsky, a colonel

in the Soviet KGB, defected to Britain and disclosed that

he had been a double spy for the British from 1974

until his defection.

In 1995, Gordievsky chronicled his years as a KGB officer

and his espionage for Britain in a memoir, entitled Next

Stop Execution. The book was abridged and serialized

in the London-based Times newspaper. In it, Gordievsky

claimed that Foot had been a Soviet “agent of influence”

and was codenamed “Agent BOOT” by the KGB. Foot

proceeded to sue The Times for libel, after the paper

published a leading article headlined “KGB: Michael Foot

was our agent”. The Labour Party politician won the lawsuit

and was awarded financial restitution from the paper.

This past week, however, the allegations about Foot’s

connections with Soviet intelligence resurfaced with the

publication of The Spy and the Traitor, a new book

chronicling the life and exploits of Gordievsky. In the

book, Times columnist and author Ben Macintyre alleges

that Gordievsky’s 1995 allegations about Foot were

accurate and that Gordievsky passed them on to British

intelligence before openly defecting to Britain.

According to Macintyre, Gordievsky briefed Baron

Armstrong of Ilminster, a senior civil servant and

cabinet secretary to British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher.

Lord Armstrong, a well-connected veteran of British

politics, in turn communicated the information to the

Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the summer of

1982, says Macintyre. The Times columnist alleges

that MI6 received specific information from Lord Armstrong,

according to which Foot had been in contact with the KGB

for years and that he had been paid the equivalent of

£37,000 ($49,000) in today’s money for his services.

The spy agency eventually determined that Foot may

not himself have been conscious that the Soviets were

using him as an agent of influence.

But MI6 officials viewed Gordievsky’s allegations

significant enough to justify a warning given to Queen

Elizabeth II, in case the Labour Party won the 1983

general election and Foot became Britain’s prime

minister."

Jensen-fallet: En viktig seger för yttrandefriheten

 

Professor Bent Jensen, Danmarks främste

specialist på sovjetisk historia och KGB:s

subversion blev idag frikänd av Hovrätten

för ett närmast självklart konstaterande:

Att den kommunistiske journalisten Jørgen

Dragsdahl var KGB-agent.

Dragsdahl avslöjades redan på 70-talet av

den avhoppade KGB-översten Oleg Gordievskij.

Men alla OG:s avslöjanden var hemligstämplade

hos PET. Vi fick därför en situation där de danska

myndigheterna kände till en prominent och inflytelserik

KGB-agent, som bl a opererade inom medierna och som

rådgivare åt flera politiker, men inte kunde använda

uppgifterna till en rättegång...

När sedan en kunnig forskare vågade tala klartext

i frågan blev han stämd för förtal av agenten - och

förlorade i första instans.

Först när PET:s förre chef, efter lång politisk tvehågsenhet,

vittnade inför Hovrätten om att det utifrån PET:s

arkiv inte råder någon tvekan om att Dragsdahl var en

betydelsefull sovjetisk inflytandeagent, kunde Jensen

frikännas... 

Låt oss se det som det demokratiska danska

samhällets slutgiltiga seger över KGB:s anhang....