The RCMP charged 61-year-old Zheng last December with breach of trust in a case police say is tied to foreign interference.
The next year, CSA renewed Zheng's security clearance for two years instead of the usual 10 — an effort to monitor Zheng's compliance with CSA internal policies, the documents say."When concerns about this individual's private activities outside of their employment arose, the CSA took actions, including an internal inquiry and restricting access to information," said CSA spokesperson Andrea Matte.
"Through these briefings, CSIS advises of potential threats to the security and interests of Canada, and provides unclassified briefings regarding the nature of specific threats."CSIS's refusal to provide a briefing to CSA with Zheng in the room eventually helped to trigger an internal investigation into Zheng in 2018.
While requesting a search warrant to access Zheng's BlackBerry, police said he communicated with five private companies while at CSA dating back to 2007.The search warrant request notes that foreign states are known to target officials with access to privileged information in order to steal intellectual property.
Look closer. You will find many, many other Chinese professionals are being coerced (encouraged $$) by the CCP to pass along sensitive information back to China.
MI6 chief Richard Moore warned the CCP has the capability to 'harvest data from around the world' and uses money to 'get people on the hook', and these traps threatened to erode sovereignty and have prompted defensive measures.