US officials believe that a number of Chinese spies masquerading as tourists have been collecting information on military facilities in Alaska, reports USA Today.
According to one Army officer, “[n]ot everyone who appear to be tourists in Alaska, are, in fact tourists… instead they are foreign spies,” such as one incident involving Chinese citizens with a drone driving past a security checkpoint at Fort Wainwright.
Alaska hosts three military bases – Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and Fort Wainwright – and is regularly used by the Pentagon for military exercises over land and sea, making it a prime target for international espionage.
One major concern for security officials is, according to David Deptula, a retired Air Force general, now dean of Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Power Studies, Chinese spies leaving behind “sensors that could pick up sensitive communications.”
“There is no doubt that the greatest long-term threat to our nation’s ideas, our economic security and our national security is that posed by the Chinese communist government,” argued the Director of the FBI Christopher Wray in April this year.
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