According to senior members of the Australian Intelligence community it is “highly dubious” that Wang Liqiang, who claimed he was a high-level Chinese spy during a 60 Minutes interview, was “major player in the espionage space,” according to Sky News host Sharri Markson.
According to advice given to the Morrison government's National Security Committee of Cabinet on Tuesday, Wang may have only been engaged in low level work, which would be of little use to Australia’s security agencies.
The comments come after the Australian Federal Police acknowledged it has launched a formal investigation into Wang's claims Chinese intelligence services attempted to interfere with the recent Australian election.
