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Introducing: The Sixth Bureau | Bloomberg Intelligence

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0:01

This is Special Agent Regal, Special

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Agent Bradley Hall. The time is

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approximately 11:15

0:10

a.m. about to start consensual telephone

0:13

call with Dr. Daiwa Sang.

0:19

China's Ministry of State Security is

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one of the most mysterious and powerful

0:23

spy agencies in the world. But in 2017,

0:28

the FBI got inside.

0:42

>> I've never seen that much evidence in my

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entire career, and I don't think we'll

0:45

ever see that much evidence again.

0:48

>> I now have several terabytes of an MSS

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officer, no doubt, no question, of his

0:53

life. And that's a unicorn.

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>> This is a story of the inner workings of

0:59

the MSS and how one man's ambition and

1:02

mistakes opened its vault of secrets.

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1:13

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Interactive Summary

The transcript introduces a story about the FBI's unprecedented infiltration of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) in 2017. Special Agents Regal and Hall are mentioned at the start of an operation involving a consensual telephone call with Dr. Daiwa Sang. Agents describe acquiring an extraordinary amount of evidence, including "several terabytes of an MSS officer's life," noting the rarity of such intelligence. The narrative promises to reveal the inner workings of the MSS through the ambition and mistakes of one individual.

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