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 past 18 months by the Test Flying Academy in South Africa, supporting military and aviation training.