7 Ex-New Zealand Defence Personnel Found Training CCP’s Military

Just weeks after it was revealed that New Zealand’s intelligence agency was hosting foreign spy equipment, and that Beijing hackers had breached government agencies, a spy agency has confirmed that seven former NZ Defence Force personnel helped train the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military. NZSIS Director-General Andrew Hampton told Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee the seven had been hired over the last 18 months by the Test Flying Academy in South Africa, supporting military and aviation training. Mr. Hampton said this was part of a wider strategy by Beijing to “strengthen the capability and lethality of its army.” “The training and expertise they were passing on was gained through previous employment with partner militaries and with the New Zealand Defence Force. Such activity clearly poses a major national security risk and it is not in New Zealand’s interest to have former military personnel training in other military who does not share the same values as our own,” he said....