Mugshots: Zhang Haiyan

Zhang Haiyan (Source: The Globe and Mail)

After graduation in 1989 became the first foreign female reporter of Xinhua News Agency stationed in Cairo. Later she married a Canadian, moved to Canada in 1995, the creation of an advisory body called the Chinabridge Communications and a Master of Economics and Management Science, University of Ottawa. 1999 to obtain Canadian citizenship in 2002 to become a Canadian government employee, started work at the Ministry of Industry Canada. In February 2003, he was hired as the Privy Council (Privy Council Office) senior analyst. In August 2003, after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service security investigation, the Privy Council was dismissed.In 2005, after a closed hearing, the Committee on Information (Security Intelligence Review Committee) supports the decision to the Privy Council dismissed Zhang Haiyan from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service made. Zhang Haiyan application for judicial review in the Federal Court recently dismissed. Enter Canada Privy not voluntary , according to Zhang Haiyan told the media that she had to work in the Federal Ministry of Industry, after the Privy Council Office, "poaching", was transferred to quit this job agencies responsible for the Prime Minister and Cabinet affairs. At that time the Privy Council (the government consulted the official agency, PCO) interested in her, an official of the temptation she joined PCO, and to ensure that within two years she was able to learn in other government departments not learn a lifetime. Since that time, she worked in a senior analyst at the Privy Council, and the analyst must attend government meetings. But in August 2003, PCO suddenly dismissed Ms. Zhang. At that time the situation is, a guard asked her to leave her desk, and everything is there. However, Zhang Haiyan in a file in the court, "I have never, and will never, be something with Canadian interests related to divulge to anyone."SIRC report shows that Zhang Haiyan also had wanted to Ottawa in her desk there are information of the Government of Canada CD-ROM away, but it does not specify the specific content of SIRC (information). And she alleged that "there is regular contact with those overseas representative might and intelligence gathering activities related to" Before, Zhang Haiyan with the Xinhua News Agency and a "stone surname," the Chinese embassy officials have specific social contact. The man was also described as "major trade representatives."