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mountaineer:
CBC identifies Canadian woman accused of spying at NATO military HQ
Systems engineer Biwei Zhang worked for Canadian Space Agency, StatsCan before Belgium move, resume suggests
Aloysius Wong, Albert Leung, Jonathon Gatehouse, Sylvène Gilchrist
CBC News
Posted: Jul 29, 2026 9:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago

The Canadian woman recently arrested by Belgian authorities on suspicion of spying appears to have worked for multiple government agencies before her NATO internship.

A CBC News investigation has identified the woman as Biwei Zhang, a systems engineer with a background in economics whose online resume suggests she previously worked for the Canadian Space Agency and Statistics Canada.

Zhang's public and professional profiles match the information Belgian prosecutors provided, which described the suspect as a "Canadian national of Chinese origin" who was an intern at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the military headquarters of NATO in Mons, Belgium. ...

mountaineer:
" Biwei Zhang... She also goes by Claire and Katina."

"She's in her 30s and is fluent in English, French and Mandarin... She's built an impressive resume over the past decade with working at high profile spots like the World Trade Organization in Switzerland and the European Space Agency in Italy. She's also worked for the Canadian Space Agency as a systems engineer in the satellite operations department and before that as an economist with Stats Canada."

"But CBC News has uncovered something that may have been overlooked.  A Federal Court of Canada ruling in 2019. Zhang applied for a job with the CBSA, submitting two forms under slightly different names, giving her two cracks at the application exam."

"The Public Service Commission determined that was fraud, a decision upheld by a 2024 judicial review" ...

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https://twitter.com/cbcwatcher/status/2082782863561199900

DefiantMassRINO:
After the fall of Hong Kong in 1999, there was a mass migration of Chinese into Canada ... if they could afford the fee.

Canada is the soft snowcap of America.  Canada is a great vector for infiltration of the US.

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