UK accuses two Chinese servicemen of espionage: Report
Two Chinese servicemen participating in a training program by the UK’s Royal Air Force were “high-level intelligence officers” tasked with espionage duties, a confidential report has confirmed.
Lieutenant G Huang and Captain S Tong were the first Chinese military airmen to ever be trained at the Royal Air Force College in Cranwell, Lincolnshire, and raised the alarms when they appeared over-curious about specific systems used by the British military, the Daily Express reported Sunday.
Apparently, the two Chinese engineers had spent nearly 60 percent of their free time at the RAF Fylingdales, a ballistic missile early warning station on the North York Moors, according to an “Eye Only” report.
The report was published a few months ago and turned a number of heads within the UK ministry of defense but it has now been re-sent to Prime Minister Theresa May at the request of US intelligence services.
According to the newspaper, the document combined with warnings by MI5 against commercial espionage by China prompted May to scrap plans to build Britain’s first nuclear power plant in decades.
The plant was slated to be built by the French company EDF that was supposed to complete the £18 billion project with the help of two Chinese partners.
Both China National Nuclear Corporation, which is owned by the Chinese army and produces nuclear weapons, and China General Nuclear Power are accused of attempting to steal US secrets to develop their own technologies.
Huang and Tong graduated in October after successfully passing an 18-month course, at the end of which they gained access to the British military’s sensitive and low-level classified material.
“It was decided early in their stay that their out-of-college activities would be closely monitored,” a source was quoted by the Express as saying.
Fylingdales was originally developed during the Cold War to warn against nuclear missile attacks. According to Wing Commander Dave Keighly, who heads the base, the station is trying to “focus on foreign intelligence satellites, manned space flights and that kind of thing.”
The Chinese nationals spent most of their free time at the base, taking a special interest in the base’s active electronically scanned radar array.
According to the report, Huang and Tong are currently serving in a ballistic missile installation in northern China.
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