'Until we get serious as a country about counterintelligence, which broadly we are not, Beijing will keep stealing our secrets. We bagged two bad guys this week, but how many more are out there, spying on the US military from the inside?' -John Schindler
sailors on suspicion of espionage for China. Both sailors are based in California. Both appear to be of Chinese descent or origin. This is the customary intelligence recruitment model employed by Beijing.
Wei knew this was wrong. Telling the tale, his Chinese spy handler ordered Wei not to discuss their clandestine relationship with anyone plus to destroy any evidence of his selling Pentagon secrets to Beijing. He is facing a long prison sentence if convicted. As the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California stated about Wei:"The crime of espionage under U.S.
Here we must ask why the Pentagon keeps granting security clearances to Chinese Americans without special scrutiny. Unless such immigrants have completely cut their ties to their homeland, which happens but is rare, they are vulnerable to exploitation by Chinese intelligence. Prominent Democrats, including, have assisted Beijing for years by asserting that U.S. counterintelligence is targeting Chinese Americans on grounds of"racial profiling.
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