An amateur historian in China accidentally bought four books from a second-hand bookstore and discovered secret military documents among them. In this respect he is writing Associated press.
The man, identified only by his surname Zhang in Chinese media, paid only 6 yuan (about 72 rubles) for his purchases, and when he came home and examined the contents in more detail, he realized that it had confidential information. documents in hand.
The Chinese called the hotline of the Ministry of State Security and reported what happened. Later, the ministry praised the retiree who acted exactly like this.
“If someone with malicious intentions had purchased these, the consequences would be unimaginable,” the ministry’s press service said.
After Zhang purchased priceless books from a used bookstore, government security officers raided the place. The investigation revealed that two military personnel assigned to destroy more than 200 books destroyed them by selling them to a recycling center as paper scraps.
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