The European Intelligence Academy is proud to present an essay by Nicholas Eftimiades as the latest installment in its Research Paper Series. Nicholas Eftimiades, a 34-year veteran of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, hardly needs an introduction. He is the author of Chinese Intelligence Operations (1994) and the seminal Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics (2020), which is widely viewed as the standard unclassified work on the subject. In his paper for the EIA, which is entitled “Chinese Espionage Recruitment Motivations”, Eftimiades revisits the traditional MICE idea and offers a revision that reflects the complexity of Chinese espionage in our time. The paper can be accessed here.[pdf]
