US Officials Unsure Whether Alice Huang Was Really a Chinese Spy, Report Says

Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang.

American officials have not settled the question of whether Alice Huang, the Chinese businesswoman linked to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, was working as a spy for Beijing. The intelligence gathered on her so far does not prove it, according to several sources cited in a CNN report.

Within the US government, people disagree about how solid the case is. CNN reported that some officials doubt she was ever recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security, the country’s main spy agency, to watch Jensen Huang and, through him, American policymakers.

Some staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, including people close to director Jay Clayton, think calling her a Chinese spy goes too far and is not fully accurate, sources mentioned in the report said. CIA officials are also not yet sure that the material collected on her, which includes intercepted communications, shows she knowingly passed information to Beijing.

Other officials in the Trump administration see it differently. Some told the outlet it is hard to believe she was not acting for the Chinese government, given that she is a successful Chinese businesswoman who worked with one of…

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