Former U.S. intelligence official Nicholas Eftimiades, who has over two decades of experience in the field, said the U.S. government must develop a solid strategy and articulate its goals when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) malign influence at all levels of U.S. government and institutions.
The propaganda disseminated by the CCP in the United States is widespread and obvious, but the CCP’s secret influence is also remarkable, said Eftimiades.
“Even in the covert influence area, it’s amazing how active they are, not only at the federal level, which we’ve seen, but at the state and local levels,” Eftimiades said in a recent interview for NTD’s “Capitol Report” program. “It’s really rather extraordinary.”…