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| Chinese spy arrested, may have compromised Chinese agents in US |
| 2012-06-16 |
| Agent arrested in spy may have compromised some of China's US agents, in what is considered major setback for Beijing's intelligence efforts A Chinese state-security official arrested earlier this year on allegations of spying for Washington is suspected to have compromised some of China's US agents in a major setback that angered President Hu Jintao, sources said. Hu personally intervened this year, ordering an investigation into the case after the Ministry of State Security arrested one of its own officials for passing information to the Americans, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The official, an aide to a vice minister, was taken into custody sometime between January and March after the ministry became alarmed last year over repeated incidents of Chinese agents being compromised in the United States, they said. The ministry's own investigations found the aide had been working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for years, divulging information about China's overseas spy network in the nation's worst espionage scandal for two decades, they added. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #7 you may have just nailed 0bama's intel strategy. He wants china to prosper at our expense. he might even have dropped the dime on the mole for campaign cash. nothing is beyond him. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2012-06-16 20:11 |
| #6 I have to wonder if the FBI was a little too ham-handed in apprehending the spies whose identities were provided by this mole. If David Cornwell's novels are anything to go by, spy agencies are supposed to throw a lot of red herrings in the path of whatever foreign intel agencies are engaged in trying to figure how one of their own was discovered while operating abroad. Over the past several years, the pace at which Chinese spies were being arrested seemed a little high. Now we know why - we had someone on the inside. Was Barack "007" Obama involved in trying to generate positive headlines for himself? When Bush was president, Senior Colonel Xu Junping, Director of Strategy in China's Defence Ministry, who came in from the cold in March 2001, after having begun working for the Taiwanese intelligence services in 1999. Why couldn't our guy have done the same? What a disaster for future agent recruitment - the impression being given here is that (1) we won't accept defectors and (2) we will keep moles working for us in place until they are captured (and eventually executed). |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2012-06-16 18:19 |
| #5 The editor's none too bright. The damage is to US intelligence and it's massive. We've just lost a highly-placed mole. I have to wonder if we could have provided a defector package to Wang Lijun and thereby diverted attention from our mole. Did Obama more or less sign this mole's death warrant by not taking Wang in? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2012-06-16 18:00 |
| #4 So he's going to compromise Diane Feinstiene? |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2012-06-16 12:21 |
| #3 ...well, how far behind is he in financing the campaign? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-06-16 09:08 |
| #2 How long before traitor 0 springs him? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-06-16 08:35 |
| #1 Cyberspace efforts are proceeding unhindered. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-06-16 03:10 |