Matt Brazil

Dec 10, 2024 | spytalk.co | Matt Brazil

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Dec 10, 2024 | spytalk.co | Matt Brazil

THE U.S. SWAP ON NOV. 27 OF THREE CHINESE NATIONALS held here for three Americans imprisoned in China may be a historic first spy trade by Beijing with a foreign country. Or not. None of the Americans brought home in exchange for a Chinese State Security officer, his sub agent and a former PhD student convicted of possessing child pornography, could be rightly called a “spy,” which is to say, a U.S. intelligence officer tasked with recruiting Chinese to steal their government’s military secrets.

Oct 27, 2024 | defenseone.com | Matt Brazil |Matt Bruzzese |Peter W. Singer

Earlier this year, American investigators were tipped off about a plan to ship semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China. The alarm was sounded after two Chicago-based buyers of a Dynatex DTX-MDB 150 "scribe and break" machine asked the California manufacturer to file export paperwork that omitted the machine’s final destination: Chengdu GaStone Technology Company, a firm in southwest China under U.S. sanction for an illegal 2021 scheme to purchase military-grade integrated circuits.

Jul 1, 2024 | myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Matt Brazil |Peter W. Singer |Jon Herskovitz

Quotes of the Day:“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”– Bruce Coville“Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up.

Apr 25, 2024 | spytalk.co | Matt Brazil

IN A MAJOR SHAKEUP at the top of China’s intelligence and security apparatus, President Xi Jinping last Friday unexpectedly abolished its key eavesdropping and codebreaking agency, the Strategic Support Force (SSF) and replaced it with three new agencies put directly under the Chinese Communist Party’s military oversight body, the Central Military Commission.