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The Ministry of

State Security
Aaliyah Hasna Abdullah TP032041
Headquarters is in
Founded in 1983
Beijing

Overview of Given the authority


to arrest and detain
Responsible for
counter intelligence,

MSS
people for crimes
foreign intelligence
involving state
and political security
security

Hidden from the rest


of the world
Imaging Intelligence Division
- Responsible for collecting and
Confidential interpreting images of political,
Communication Division economic, and military targets
management and administration in various countries through both
of confidential communications traditional practices and through
incorporation of satellite
imagery technologies

Bureaus in
internal Security and Anti-
Reconnaissance Division-
International Intelligence Responsible for protecting the
Division - strategic international MSS from infiltration by foreign

MSS intelligence collection entities by monitoring domestic


reactionary organizations and
foreign institutions

Counterintelligence Division -
Political and Economic monitoring, investigating, and
Intelligence Division - potentially detaining foreigners
Responsible for gathering suspected of counterintelligence
political, economic, and activities. This Bureau is
scientific intelligence from reported to primarily investigate
various countries diplomats, businessmen, and
reporter
Initial Presence of the MSS

The Cold War :-


• 1971 – China chooses Pakistan China’s strength was
1978 – China adopted
to be strategy ally which led population and the
the 4 Modernization
to the meeting of Chairman ideology of the
Mao and President Nixon Program
through Pakistan Communist Party
Cases that penetrated the U.S. Security

• Larry Wu-Tai Chin • Katrina Leung


• Translator for the Foreign • A source for Chinese-American
Broadcast Info FBI and Fundraiser for the
• Arrested and charged with Republican Party
espionage in the service of • Arrested in 2003 for being a
China double agent
• Recruited in 1944, arrested 4
decades later
What has the MSS done so far?

Censoring the internet in China, cutting off the population from


the outside world and allowing the government to control what
influences the Chinese people.

Responsible for handling internal dissent and anything that


might cause citizens to rebel against the ruling Communist
Party.

MSS is more involved in economic espionage, with the help of


Huawei
Modus Operandi

• University • Professionals and Students


• Institute of International • Diplomats, journalists, spies
Relations, Beijing planted in other intelligence
• Institute of Cadre Management, agencies
Suzhou • Think tanks and conferences
• Uses honey trap to collect • Recruits students before
information traveling abroad

Uses nationalism and the pretenses of Modernizing


China
• Technological, Military and
industrial information
Cyber • United States, Peru, Australia,
India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,
spying Hong Kong, Belgium, France

What is the
MSS up to
now?
Social
Credit • Ensure the Chinese are do not go
against the government

System
Thank you!

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