The British media reported on Saturday that a former British military intelligence officer claimed that he had been recruited by a Chinese man pretending to be an ordinary businessman on the job search website LinkedIn, asking for “inside information”. He estimated that the Chinese are using this route to recruit British military and security personnel, defense contractors and civil servants to steal state secrets.
The Times reported that Philip Ingram, 56, has served in the military and is an expert in the fields of cyber intelligence, nuclear weapons and biotechnology. He claimed to have received a contact request from Chinese businessman Robin in 2017, during which he said he wanted some “inside information that is not easily available to others, and you can guess what I want.
Ingram said Robin asked him to travel to China in person to submit a report and refused to meet in London until he was advised to switch to an encrypted email service that only Chinese intelligence agencies can use, and then confirmed he was being targeted by the Chinese. He speculated that if he had traveled to China at the Time but refused to cooperate, he might have been blackmailed.
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