FBI Affidavit Details How Suspected Chinese Agents Used Fake Consulting Firms to Target US Clearance Holders

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

Suspected Chinese intelligence-linked actors used fake consulting websites, job platforms, artificial intelligence-generated photos, stolen identities, encrypted messaging, and overseas payments to target Americans with security clearances, according to a newly public FBI affidavit.

The redacted filing, identified by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as for case 26-sz-42, gives the most detailed public account so far of the alleged recruitment network behind the Justice Department’s June seizure of 13 internet domains.