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

Skilled and experienced former defence personnel are training the CCP’s military in ways to increase its ‘capability and lethality,’ the NZ SIS has warned.
7 Ex-New Zealand Defence Personnel Found Training CCP’s Military
New Zealand Defence Force depart on the F-230H Hercules at the RNZAF Base in Auckland, New Zealand, on April 13, 2022. Phil Walter/Getty Images
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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.

Rex Widerstrom
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Rex Widerstrom is a New Zealand-based reporter with over 40 years of experience in media, including radio and print. He is currently a presenter for Hutt Radio.
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