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#183 China’s Most Influential Spy Agency Hides in Plain Sight | Alex Joske
China Unscripted
The United Front Work Department and the MSS?
The United Front Work Department has some involvement in covert and clandestine operations, but itself is not a spy agency. It doesn't seem to have the same kind of training and culture that intelligence agencies have. The way I see the relationship between the two is that the United Front work department is busy building up networks all around the world within China. And then you get the MSS plugging itself into these existing CCP aligned networks and using that as a recruiting ground.
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