Tricked and Extradited: Inside the First FBI Operation to Lure a Chinese Spy to the US
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Feed Name: The CyberWire
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The report recounts the FBI’s counterintelligence operation that led to the extradition of Chinese intelligence officer Xu Yanjun. Xu recruited GE Aviation engineer David Zheng through LinkedIn and in-person meetings in China, paid his travel and stipends, and U.S. agents later flipped Zheng to lure Xu into U.S. custody — the first extradition of a Chinese spy to the United States.
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