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<https://intelnews.org/2018/10/24/01-2423/>

A French government report warns of an “unprecedented threat” to
security after nearly 4,000 leading French civil servants, scientists
and senior executives were found to have been accosted by Chinese spies
using the popular social media network LinkedIn. The report was authored
by France’s main intelligence agencies, the General Directorate for
Internal Security (DGSI) and the General Directorate for External
Security (DGSE). According to the Paris-based Le Figaro newspaper, which
published a summary of the classified report, the two intelligence
agencies presented it to the French government on October 19.

The report describes Chinese efforts to approach senior French
scientists, business executives, academics and others, as “widespread
and elaborate”, and warns that it poses an “unprecedented threat against
the national interests” of the French state. It goes on to state that
nearly 4,000 carefully selected French citizens have been approached by
Chinese intelligence operatives via the LinkedIn social media platform.
Of those nearly half, or 1,700, have leading posts in French industry,
while the remaining 2,300 work in the public sector. In their totality,
those targeted are involved nearly every area of industry and government
administration, including those of nuclear energy, telecommunications,
computing and transportation, said the report. According to Le Figaro,
those targeted were approached online by Chinese spies who employed fake
identities and identified themselves as headhunters for Chinese
corporations, think-tank researchers or consultants for major companies.
They then invited targeted individuals to all-expenses-paid trips to
China for conferences or research symposia, or offered to pay them as
consultants.

The DGSI-DGSE report concludes that most of those targeted displayed
shocking levels of “culpable naivety” and a “completely insufficient”
awareness of online espionage methods. To address this, French
intelligence agencies have produced guidelines on detecting and evading
attempts at recruitment or luring from intelligence operatives using
social media, said Le Figaro. French civil servants are now being
informed of these guidelines through a concerted campaign by the French
intelligence community, said the paper. The report, however, did not say
whether similar efforts were taking place in the French private sector.

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