A reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation explained on Monday how China’s main intelligence agency secretly operates “service centers” in seven US cities.

The Overseas Chinese Service Center (OCSC) is located in San Francisco, California, Philip Lencchi told WMAL talk show host Vince Collaneze, who is also the editorial director of The Daily Caller. Houston, Texas; and Omaha, Nebraska. St. Paul, Minnesota. Salt Lake City, Utah. St. Louis, Missouri and Charlotte, North Carolina. These centers, ostensibly set up to help Chinese living abroad, are housed within various U.S.-based nonprofits. (Related: Democrats yell “racism” as DCNF bombshell exposes Rep. Judy Chu’s ties to Biden appointee China Intel allegations)

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“What we have discovered is that there is an intelligence agency of the Chinese Communist Party called the United Front Work Department, which operates 66 so-called overseas Chinese service centers around the world, seven of which are in the United States. It turns out that there is something,” Lenzitzki told Collanese.

Lenzitzki noted that officials from the OCSCs met with officials from China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to detail how they could assist China’s law enforcement efforts. In 2022, the Justice Department accused China’s MPS of being involved in extortion and other acts. prosecution and in 2020 Complaint.

“What we discovered is that some of the overseas Chinese service stations in other countries, such as Ireland, are actually purportedly participating in the same program as service stations in New York,” said Lenchitzki. said Mr. “I mean, this is really alarming, because the Chinese government, as you know, all these organizations that participate in this program must carry out ‘consular protection’ with citations and no citations, This is because it states that the scope of this will extend to the range that we have seen in the case of the United States. , assist with visa procedures at the consulate. Also in other countries, such as South Africa. We’ve actually seen them kind of evolve to “organize patrols” where they actually walk around with weapons and act as police. “

In April, the Justice Department indicted the two men on multiple counts of aiding and abetting China’s harassment of overseas citizens. The existence of such a center is feared after the FBI searched a similar station in New York.

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