Exclusive: The Spy in the Ad Agency

NEW YORK, June 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Epoch Times award-winning reporter Joshua Philipp explains in an article published in today's Manhattan Week why Fortune 500 companies have become very concerned about Chinese spies.

Having penetrated into top ad agencies, these operatives are ready to steal information about companies' business strategies, planned products, market research, and information on competitors' weaknesses. Confidential market information and negotiation strategies give the Chinese regime the tools to undercut American businesses.

Casey Fleming, CEO of BlackOps Partners Corporation, said that Fortune 500 CEOs "admit it's an absolute crisis." Those CEOs see the Chinese regime preparing to compete against them loaded with their own proprietary information.

Today's article is the first in a series. Subsequent articles will examine: how ad agencies block ads from going to Chinese-language newspapers outside China that the Chinese regime wants to silence; how the methods applied to Chinese-language media are now being extended to affect Western media; how China's state-run media are now funded by mainstream advertisers.

As was vividly illustrated when the Chinese regime refused last year to issue visas to New York Times and Bloomberg reporters, it cannot tolerate a free and independent press. This series describes just some of the tools the Chinese regime is developing for subverting press it does not control.

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Contact: Joshua Philipp at Joshua.philipp@epochtimes.com or 212-239-2808

SOURCE The Epoch Times