The Manila Times
SEN. Panfilo Lacson warned that Chinese sleeper agents and even operatives from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are already embedded in the Philippines to engage in espionage.The senator aired his concern on Wednesday during a Senate public hearing which tackled anti-espionage bills, including Lacson’s Senate Bill 33 on offenses against national security.The Senate discussed measures seeking to update the decades-old Commonwealth Act 616 that was enacted during World War II.Lacson urged the concerned government agencies to conduct continuous follow-up operations against those arrested in earlier anti-espionage operations.“The whole network of espionage operations must be dismantled or at least decimated to a large degree because agents come and go…
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Chinese sleeper agents’ and PLA operatives a threat, Lacson warns
Bernadette E. Tamayo
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SEN. Panfilo Lacson warned that Chinese sleeper agents and even operatives from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are already embedded in the Philippines to engage in espionage.The senator aired his concern on Wednesday during a Senate public hearing which tackled anti-espionage bills, including Lacson’s Senate Bill 33 on offenses against national security.The Senate discussed measures
