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BEIJING — China has arrested an employee of the Ministry of State Security onsuspicion of spying for the United States, Hong Kong media reported Friday. The employee is said to be a 38-year-old man who was a secretary toQiu Jin, the deputy minister of state security. He is alleged tohave been recruited and trained by the CIA and was arrested sometime this year. "He helped to successfully penetrate the state security departmentand became aide to the vice minister … and was able to gethis hands on core secrets of senior state officials," a report inthe Hong Kong-based Oriental Daily said. There were conflicting reports on how the alleged spy wasrecruited. In one account, it occurred while he was a student inthe U.S. The Oriental Daily, however, reported that he was caughtup in a classic "honey trap" by a woman who photographed him in acompromising setting in a Hong Kong apartment and later coerced himinto spying. The espionage charges appear to be entangled in the power struggleraging within the Communist Party since the beginning of the year. China is in the throes of aleadership transition, with its top-tier officials set to retire atthe 18th Communist Party Congress later this year. The alleged spy was not identified in the reports, which named onlyQiu, who is believed to be a close ally of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. In February, Qiu personally handled the politically explosive caseof Wang Lijun, a police official from Chongqing who had soughtasylum in a U.S. Consulate in western China. After fleeing to the consulate in Chengdu, Wang alleged that BoXilai, the powerful party secretary from Chongqing, was covering upa murder committed by Bo's wife. Qiu was reportedly one of the people who convinced Wang to leavethe consulate, and on Feb. 8 he flew back to Beijing with Wang. "The CIA's China spy case definitely threw a big bucket of coldwater on Hu and Wen's campaign to purge Bo. The CIA's involvementinChina'spower struggle will make Hu and Wen lose face," wroteDuowei News, a pro-Beijing Chinese-language website based in theUnited States. News of the alleged spy first surfaced in a May 25 article inXinwei Monthly, a Hong Kong-based magazine that occasionallypublishes leaks from Beijing. Jin Zhong, a veteran political analyst and editor based in HongKong, said that Xinwei Monthly was connected to one of thepolitical factions in Beijing, and he believed it had insideinformation. "I don't think that they would make up a story like this. They haveinternal sources," Jin said. "But it is a complicated story thatappears possibly to be connected to the Bo Xilai scandal." Reuters news agency reported Friday from Hong Kong that it hadconfirmed from three separate sources that there was an arrest ofan unnamed suspected spy. If true, the incident could be the most explosive case of a U.S.spy in China since 1985, when Yu Qiangsheng, an intelligenceofficial, defected to the U.S. The Ministry of State Security is the main intelligence arm of theChinese government. Even the names of its top officials are a statesecret. The ministry also falls under the purview of national security czarZhou Yongkang, a member of the Politburo's nine-member StandingCommittee who was considered Bo Xilai's mentor. Relations between the U.S. and China are in a delicate state at themoment because of Wang's asylum bid at the U.S. Consulate as wellas the case of Chen Guangcheng , a blind dissident who escaped house arrest and fled totheU.S.Embassy in Beijing, ultimately leaving for the U.S. last month. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had no comment on the spycase, according to news reports. barbara.demick@latimes.com. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Cold Storage Rooms , China Air Cooled Water Chiller, and more. For more , please visit Vacuum Chiller today!
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