Politico says Silicon Valley is swarming with non-traditional spies, especially from China but also from other countries. Most are apparently working at tech companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.

It’s as if our program of recruiting hundreds of thousands of temporary tech workers from other countries (almost entirely from India and China) has turned into a self inflicted spying and IP theft operation. Who could have seen that coming?

Chinese officials bussed in 6,000-8,000 J-Visa holding students—threatening them with the loss of Chinese government funding

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Chinese intelligence has long focused on surveilling, and attempting to control, Chinese nationals studying abroad. One well-documented mechanism for this effort has been the use of Chinese Students and Scholars Associations groups on university campuses.

Source: How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies – POLITICO Magazine

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