Chinese spy balloon communicated with mainland via US internet provider: report

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2023/12/29/news/chinese-spy-balloon-communicated-with-
mainland-via-us-internet-provider-report/

A new report revealed that the Chinese spy craft that flew over the U.S.
at the beginning of this year was communicating with mainland China via an
American internet provider.

Two current and one former Biden administration officials told NBC News in
a Thursday report that the craft used a U.S. internet provider to receive
mainly navigational communications.

NBC News did not name the internet provider in the report.

The company denied that the Chinese spycraft used its services and had
come to that conclusion via its own investigation as well as talking to
U.S. officials.

One official said the spycraft, which was shot down by the U.S. military
off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, used high-bandwidth data
collections known as burst transmissions to send information.

The report also said the Biden administration asked the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court for a highly secretive order to collect
intelligence on the craft as it flew over several states.

The officials said that order would have allowed the government to monitor
the spycraft’s communications during its journey.

Several officials said in the report that, in the past, China has secretly
used commercial internet providers in different nations as backup
communications networks.

Encrypted networks are often sought out for their security.

Chinese embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu claimed to NBC News that the craft
was a weather balloon that had drifted off-course.

“As we had made it clear before, the airship, used for meteorological
research, unintentionally drifted into U.S. because of the westerlies and
its limited self-steering capability,” Liu said.

“The facts are clear.”

The office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment to
Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Chinese Embassy for
comment.

Despite Biden administration officials assuring the American public that
the Chinese spy balloon did not collect and transmit data, a previously
unreported phone call paints a different picture of top officials hiding
information about the balloon.

According to NBC News, a Jan. 27 phone call between President Biden’s top
military adviser, Gen. Mark Milley, and NORAD chief Gen. Glen VanHerck
sheds new light on China’s surveillance balloon.

The network also reported that the administration initially hoped to keep
the balloon’s existence a secret from Congress and the public, citing
multiple former and current administration and congressional officials.

“Before it was spotted publicly, there was the intention to study it and
let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,” one former senior
U.S. official told NBC.

A senior Biden administration official denied allegations of an attempt to
conceal the incident, saying decisions were made to protect sensitive
intelligence capabilities.


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