Foreign intelligence services are using “spy turtles” and “spy fish” to snoop on China, the country’s Ministry of State Security said Friday. “An unseen covert war of espionage is currently unfolding” in the seas around China’s coast, the ministry wrote in a post on the WeChat social media platform. In recent years, overseas spy agencies have been “continuously collecting and stealing sensitive maritime data through various new types of espionage equipment,” it said, including “spy turtles and spy fish.” In certain Chinese waters, “relatively large living marine animals have been fitted with sensors to swim in specific areas, collect ocean data, and transmit it to overseas satellites,” the ministry claimed, without providing details on where the animals had been found or which nations they suspected of overseeing the alleged espionage.

Full report : China says “spy turtles” and “spy fish” deployed by foreign intelligence agencies snooping in its waters.