China gets Japanese secrets
NZPA Tokyo Thousands of classified documents have been stolen from Japan’s Defence Facilities Agency and apparently passed on to China over a period of 10 years, the Tokyo police have said.
An intensive investigation has begun to determine who stole the documents. The “Yomiuri” newspaper of Tokyo said that the missing papers included sensitive material on missile research and troop deployment. But the Tokyo police said that the documents were of secondary importance. The loss of the papers from the defence agency came to light after the arrest of an executive of the Japan Public Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, in connection with the theft of the firm’s electronic research secrets. The “Yomiuri” newspaper quoted police sources as saying that the man had passed the telephone company’s research on new products to two Chinese bookstore employees, who arranged for the materials to be shipped to China. Defence documents were found in a search of the shop.
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