Sunday, December 05, 2010
By GILLIAN WONG
The Associated Press
BEIJING – Contacts told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body and a senior leader demanded action after finding search results critical of him, leaked U.S. government memos show.
One memo sent by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to Washington said that a "well-placed contact," who was not identified, told diplomats the Chinese government coordinated late last year's attacks on Google Inc. under the direction of the Politburo Standing Committee, the apex of Communist Party power.
The details of the memos, known in diplomatic parlance as a cable, could not be verified. Chinese government departments either refused to comment or could not be reached. But if true, the cables show the political pressures facing Google when it decided to close its China-based search engine in March.
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