Espionage
China’s sprawling Ministry of State Security (MSS) presents difficult challenge for foreign counterintelligence and security services. Although the bureaucratic center of gravity may reside in the ministry’s Beijing headquarters, the ministry’s thirty-one major provincial and municipal sub-elements probably have most of the people and conduct most of the operations even if they perform mostly surveillance and domestic intelligence work. These state security departments and bureaus are almost like little intelligence services and often have wide latitude to pursue sources. Countering the MSS requires a broadly-based program that accounts for the ministry’s scale and compartmentation.
China’s sprawling Ministry of State Security (MSS) presents difficult challenge for foreign counterintelligence and security services. Although the bureaucratic center of gravity may reside in the ministry’s Beijing headquarters, the ministry’s thirty-one major provincial and municipal sub-elements probably have most of the people and conduct most of the operations even if they perform mostly surveillance and domestic intelligence work. These state security departments and bureaus are almost like little intelligence services and often have wide latitude to pursue sources. Countering the MSS requires a broadly-based program that accounts for the ministry’s scale and compartmentation.
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