Bloomberg
How China’s Intelligence Operations Target Tech
Saturday, November 14, 2026
Peter Mattis, a former CIA counterintelligence analyst, said in a Bloomberg interview that China's Ministry of State Security uses business and personal relationships to gather intelligence in strategically important industries. Mattis stated that technology executives can become intelligence targets even without access to classified information. He told Bloomberg hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini that artificial intelligence is expanding the capabilities of Chinese intelligence operations.
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