Imagine that you work for CIA and you're coming under investigation because of something you did in the line of duty,
but it is now being questioned.
BBC World Service, welcome to the documentary.
You say, I better get a lawyer and there's legal insurance you can buy.
This specializes in government employees and intelligence personnel,
and it was founded by an FBI agent.
Over a long career, veteran U.S.
journalist Jeff Stein had heard it all,
but in 2016 he uncovered a story even he could scarcely believe.
Why would you suspect that an insurance company founded by an FBI agent is secretly owned by a Chinese person with close connections to the Chinese Communist Party?
The world of insurance isn't often exciting, but listen to this.
An American company called RightUSA caters for top-secret US government agents,
and it's privy to all their personal details.
Yet, a few years ago, Fosun Group, a major Chinese firm with top-level connections,
bought it, quite legitimately and seemingly without many noticing.
The purchase was legal at the time, but still,
it raises the question, what happens to all the agents' personal data?
It was in the open, so to speak,
but it's still because everything's intertwined so closely in Beijing.
You're essentially giving it up to Chinese intelligence.