A Student Said He Was a Hobby Plane Spotter. He Was Allegedly Taking Photos for the Chinese Government
Court records allege Chinese student Weiheng Zeng photographed facilities near Chicago's airport at a suspected Chinese official's direction.
Zeng, a Chinese national studying in Canada, entered the United States earlier this year and initially claimed he took photos of planes for an aviation fan website. He later admitted a suspected Chinese government official gave him specific U.S. locations to photograph, and repeatedly instructed him to destroy the SIM cards used to communicate and to stick to a Huawei phone.
- Photography targeted facilities near Chicago's airport
- Handler instructed use of a Huawei phone and repeated SIM card destruction
- Vendors
- Huawei
- Threat actors
- Chinese government
- Victims
- Weiheng Zeng
- Countries
- ChinaUnited StatesCanada
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Weiheng Zeng originally said he took photos of planes for an aviation fan website. Later he admitted a suspected Chinese government official had given him specific locations in the U. S.
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