New Zealand’s (NZ) security service has thwarted a scheme by a foreign power to gain access to “sensitive” technology, which would likely be deployed for military use. Rebecca Kitteridge, director-general of the Security Intelligence Service (SIS)—NZ domestic spy agency—made the revelations during a public hearing hosted by the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee on March 15. “We disrupted an NZ-based individual who was trying to facilitate the transfer of sensitive NZ-based technology to a foreign state. The technology would have highly likely supported that state’s military capability,” she told the Committee. The Director-General did not name the foreign state who had attempted to steal the technology. Kitteridge outlined the range of activities the agency had been dealing with, revealing that foreign states had targeted NZ’s political, academic, media, and private sectors. Ethnic communities were also being monitored and pressured by foreign governments to “suppress opposition.” “Espionage activity likely reduced over …