Suzie Wong' agents training for Olympic 'Games'
Visitors warned of 'honey trap' spy operations targeting West
Posted: August 07, 2008
12:35 am Eastern
LONDON -- China's Secret Intelligence Service, CSIS, has trained more than 1,000 of its most beautiful female agents to launch "honey trap" missions against British and other foreign businessmen and key diplomatic aides accompanying foreign leaders to the Olympic Games, according to a report from
Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
The warning has come in a detailed briefing by Britain's two intelligence chiefs -- Jonathan Evans of MI5 and John Scarlett of MI6 -- to the British team and businessmen. Similar warnings have been issued by the U.S. State Department and European foreign ministries to their teams.
Earlier this year a senior aide of prime minister Gordon Brown was caught in a "honey trap" by a Chinese female agent he met in a Beijing nightclub and took back to his hotel room. In the morning, the aide discovered she had stolen his Blackberry. It contained secret Whitehall contact numbers.
"They would be invaluable to the Chinese, enabling them to bug the numbers," said an intelligence source. The numbers have now been changed -- and the aide severely reprimanded.
Both MI5 and MI6 have sent teams to Beijing to watch over the hundreds of British businessmen who see the Games as an opportunity to do business. The intelligence officers also will keep an eye on celebrating British athletes when they go clubbing in Beijing's night spots.
"We know that many of those places have been chosen as ideal pick-up places for foreigners. They are particularly looking for people who work in the IT industry, or who have links with major banks or financial services firms," Evans warned Whitehall mandarins, ministerial aides and top businessmen before they left for Beijing.
He explained the key objective of the "Suzie Wongs" of China's Secret Intelligence Service.
"Their role is to persuade a target to take them to his hotel room and then try and steal any documents or his cell phone," Evans warned.
He identified a number of Beijing hotels his agents regard as "high risk."
These have been fitted with state-of-the-art surveillance software and cameras to blackmail a businessman or government officials.
The State Department in Washington has issued an official warning to all U.S. travelers attending the Games: "There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in those hotels. The Chinese authorities will be monitoring all e-mails and phone calls."
