A former CCP agent told CBN News he was part of an operation to identify and silence former Chinese citizens in America who spoke out against the party. He told CBN they use threats, entrapment, and even kidnapping.
He claimed, “The United Front is something that’s being defined by the Chinese Communist Party as one of its ‘secret’ or ‘magic’ weapons. And essentially its task is two things: On the one hand, expand the circle of friends of the Chinese Communist Party. So, co-opting or influencing, politicians, media, academia, and entrepreneurs. But on the other hand, its task is also to crack down on critics, to silence them, to divide them.”
Escaped Spy Reveals How Beijing Hunts Dissidents in US: ‘Constant Threats’– www.cbn.com
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He is the first former member of China’s secret police to speak publicly about Beijing’s active campaign to silence Chinese pro-democracy voices overseas.
Calling himself ‘Eric,’ he was an agent for China’s Ministry of Public Security or ‘First Bureau,’ from 2008 until 2023, when he defected to Australia.
He told CBN News, “My job was to collect intelligence about the country I was in and the anti-communist groups there. I was supposed to infiltrate these groups, make friends, and trap targets for return to China.”
Eric was coerced into becoming an agent in 2008 after his arrest for supporting a pro-democracy party and given a choice: help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) catch dissidents abroad or go to jail. He chose the former, taking on fake identities, such as a property executive and an anti-communist freedom fighter, to lure dissidents to countries where they could be abducted and returned to China.
