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China has detained a top security official for passing sensitiveinformation to the United States in the highest-level spy caseinvolving the two countries since the 1980s, reports said. Citing an unnamed "person with knowledge of the case," The New YorkTimes said the official, who was arrested earlier this year, wasbelieved to be an employee in the Ministry of State Security,China's main intelligence agency. Hong Kong's New Way magazine said the detained official was asecretary to a vice minister at the ministry. The vice minister, who was not named, has also been suspended fromduty, the New Way report said. "What is unbelievable is that the person involved in this spy caseis a secretary to a vice minister who is handling China's topsecrets, which means all the confidential documents sent to thevice minister pass through the secretary first," the magazine said. "The incident has caused the concerns and worries of Chinese topleadership, and (President) Hu Jintao has ordered an investigationto get to the bottom of the matter," the magazine said, adding thatHu was "shocked and angry." The magazine said the official was recruited by the CIA when hestudied in the United States. New Way described it as the highest-level spy case involving Chinaand the United States since China's Yu Qiangsheng defected in 1985. The United States and Chinese governments have not given any hintpublicly of the discovery of the spying suspect. Secretary of StateHillary Clinton, visiting Oslo on Friday, declined to comment onthe reports. The unnamed official was detained around the time that theCommunist Party was dealing with a fragile moment in relations withthe United States, The Times noted. In February, a former Chinese police chief drove to the USconsulate in Chengdu to present evidence allegedly linking the wifeof a top Communist Party leader, Bo Xilai, to the killing last yearof a British businessman. The police chief, Wang Lijun, was escorted to Beijing by officialsfrom the Ministry of State Security after spending a night in theconsulate. It is unclear what kind of information the detained Chineseofficial is suspected of having given to the United States andwhether that information had compromised any operations by theChinese government, The Times said. A senior US administration official, speaking on the condition ofanonymity, said the detention came during the same period as aseries of investigations begun after the revelations in the Boaffair, the report said. The investigations, authorized by China's top leaders, haveexpanded beyond Bo to the Ministry of State Security and nowinclude allegations of improper use of the security services byvarious Chinese officials and corruption, The Times noted. It was not clear that the espionage case was related in any way tothe other investigations, the report said. "There is clearly some very intense stuff going on with thesecurity ministry," the paper quoted the unnamed official assaying. "It's hard to tell exactly, but it's clearly maneuveringgoing on after Bo." The reports came amid a growing strategic rivalry between the Chinaand the United States, particularly in Asia. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a summit in Singaporeearlier Saturday that the United States would shift the bulk of itsnaval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of a new strategic focuson Asia. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as C Battery Flashlight , China High Powered LED Flashlight, and more. For more , please visit Mini LED Flashlights today!
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