Well, if you want to be confused by an espionage case, Poland has the most exciting one in a long time. It involves a Huawei official, something everybody in the world knows now, but it also involves a Polish official working now for a French telecom, Orange SA. Before that, this official was a Polish Intelligence officer who apparently had access to Polish and other intelligence services information. Not good. Intelligence officers, like Edward Snowden, always make the most damaging spies.
Huawei has fired its representative who is now going to be disavowed by everyone. Last week Huawei's President Ren Zhengfei started an aggressive "We didn't do anything like that" campaign which included a specific denial of planting devices in any of their network components that provided back doors to a customer's data. AP carried a story yesterday that said Huawei's President had also said his company would not turn over information on clients that might be requested by the Chinese government. His customers might be concerned that there was ever a thought about that being done, but they should have thought about that a long time ago.
His daughter is under house arrest in Canada for something unrelated to putting back doors in equipment. Huawei was apparently the other company that was identified by ZTE documents describing how the sanctions against Iran could be done without discovery using front companies and shell corporations.
We will be hearing about this case for years by the time all the information gets out, but it would make a great spy novel.
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