Wray has estimated that the FBI opens a new investigation on Chinese-government sponsored espionage every 12 hours. The FBI and Department of Justice take over cases from the military involving suspected spies.įBI Director Christopher Wray regularly sounds alarms about Chinese government-sponsored espionage, blaming Communist leaders there, not its citizens or Chinese Americans. She said the military is taking a number of steps to make sure those bases are secure but she gave no specifics. 2 official, Kathleen Hicks, demurred when asked to comment on suspected Chinese spying at military facilities in Alaska. However, military briefings and publicly available information lay out why the Chinese government would be interested in Alaska where some of the Pentagon's most sophisticated military capabilities and high-end war games reside. Instead, they are foreign spies.ĭetails about the incidents remain mostly classified. Not all who appear to be tourists in Alaska, are, in fact tourists, one Army officer said. military capabilities in Alaska, according to multiple soldiers familiar with the incidents but who were not authorized to speak publicly about them. military bases, however, seem to be probes to learn about U.S. Many of the encounters have been chalked up to innocent mistakes by foreign visitors intent on viewing the northern lights and other attractions in Alaska, officials say.
The occupants claimed they were tourists who had gotten lost. The vehicle was eventually stopped, and a search found a drone inside the vehicle. In one incident, a vehicle with Chinese citizens blew past a security checkpoint at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, several soldiers told USA TODAY. Jessica Koscielniak and Michelle Hanks, USA TODAYĪNCHORAGE, Alaska – Chinese citizens posing as tourists but suspected of being spies have made several attempts in recent years to gain access to military facilities in this vast state studded with sensitive bases, according to U.S.
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