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N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Accused of Spying on Tibetans for China
//Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a New York City police officer with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, accusing him of providing intelligence about Tibetans living in the United States to officials at the Chinese consulate.
//A 25-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn accused Mr. Angwang of reporting on the activities of ethnic Tibetans in New York at the behest of Chinese government officials, who were seeking to recruit intelligence sources in the community.
//He also is accused of inviting a Chinese official to N.Y.P.D. events, offering potential access to senior police officials, prosecutors said.
//The allegations raised serious questions about how much visibility Chinese government officials had inside the country’s largest police department and about the extent of Chinese efforts to conduct covert surveillance of Tibetan Americans.
//Chinese Communist Party was seeking to suppress dissent not only in Tibet, “but any place in the world where Tibetans are free to express themselves, starting with the United States of America.”
//Tibetans who agreed to become intelligence sources would be compensated by the Chinese government for information they provided.
//his position was valuable to China because he could provide sensitive information about the internal operations of the Police Department
//His parents are members of the Communist Party, and his father is a retired member of the Chinese military, the complaint said.
Full article: The New York Times, (21 Sep)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/nyregion/nypd-china-tibet-spy.html
#Spy #Tibetan #China #CCP #NYPD #Angwang #Asylum
N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Accused of Spying on Tibetans for China
//Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a New York City police officer with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, accusing him of providing intelligence about Tibetans living in the United States to officials at the Chinese consulate.
//A 25-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn accused Mr. Angwang of reporting on the activities of ethnic Tibetans in New York at the behest of Chinese government officials, who were seeking to recruit intelligence sources in the community.
//He also is accused of inviting a Chinese official to N.Y.P.D. events, offering potential access to senior police officials, prosecutors said.
//The allegations raised serious questions about how much visibility Chinese government officials had inside the country’s largest police department and about the extent of Chinese efforts to conduct covert surveillance of Tibetan Americans.
//Chinese Communist Party was seeking to suppress dissent not only in Tibet, “but any place in the world where Tibetans are free to express themselves, starting with the United States of America.”
//Tibetans who agreed to become intelligence sources would be compensated by the Chinese government for information they provided.
//his position was valuable to China because he could provide sensitive information about the internal operations of the Police Department
//His parents are members of the Communist Party, and his father is a retired member of the Chinese military, the complaint said.
Full article: The New York Times, (21 Sep)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/nyregion/nypd-china-tibet-spy.html
#Spy #Tibetan #China #CCP #NYPD #Angwang #Asylum
NY Times
N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Accused of Spying on Tibetans for China (Published 2020)
Prosecutors said the officer told Chinese consulate officials that he could provide sensitive information about the internal operations of the Police Department.
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