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Welcome to Spycraft, a podcast that
tells gripping life and death spy stories and

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the amazing devices and operations that made
them possible. Now let's get started.

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Several cases of Chinese espionage have been
announced recently in Europe. Thomas Reichenbach and

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Herwig and Eno Fischer, a married
couple, were arrested on April twenty second,

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twenty twenty four for illegal exports of
dual use technology with military naval applications.

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Nothing related to our last podcast,
I'm prosecuting an espionage case, but

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interesting in the correlation. Rock and
Bach lists himself as a contract marketing manager

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for Hong Kong Trade Development. He
studied at Peking University in the mid nineteen

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eighties. He worked in China and
speaks Mandarin and has a Chinese wife.

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Herwig and Eno Fisher own a small
engineering consulting company named Innovative Dragon and Dusol

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Dworf. Both have traveled extensively in
China. Innovative Dragon contracts for technical research

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with universities. Herwig studied mechanical engineering
and aircraft and spacecraft construction at the Rhine

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Festalia Higher Technical School, focusing on
guidance technology and composite fiber materials. Raich

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Mbach is suspected of being being recruited
by the Ministry of State Security MSS and

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China. The German government has accused
the trio of having illegally exported dual use

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technology since at least twenty twenty two. At the time of arrest, the

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suspects were negotiations an additional project research
projects useful for expanding the combat strength of

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the Chinese Army. The allegations alleged
tradecraft observations, use of a potential front

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company in London to facilitate allegedly illegal
exports, use of third countries to facilitate

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allegedly illegal exports. Rai Combach allegedly
recruited Hrwig and Ena Fisher and handled them

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as in country assets. It is
alleged that the MSS probably recruited roch Embach

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in China, and the MSS allegedly
funded the operation through front companies. So

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again, China's still up to their
their stuff. That's never going to go

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away, that's for sure, and
that's it for now.