Posted on 06/27/2021 4:04:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The disappearance of Chinese vice-minister of State Security Dong Jingwei is the most fascinating report of the week.
Maybe I’ve been too engrossed in Charles McCarry’s wonderful spy novels, but this week the story of the disappearance of Chinese vice-minister of State Security (the Guoanbu) Dong Jingwei strikes me as the most fascinating report of the week. While we are unlikely to get the full story for a while -- if ever -- I think he’s in the U.S. under deep cover and that has to concern both the leaders of China and any CCP operatives there may be in the Deep State.
Background
As the rumor goes (first reported in Spy Talk), Dong and his daughter, Dong Yang, in mid-February defected by private plane out of Hong Kong and were taken in by General Michael Flynn’s old agency the Defense Intelligence Agency because they did not trust the FBI or CIA. Dong’s daughter is or was married to Jiang Fan, president of two partners of the Alibaba Group, the most powerful Chinese e-commerce group, who was removed from those positions in April of last year ostensibly as punishment for marital infidelity.
I don’t think people just hop on a plane out of Hong Kong and show up at DIA headquarters. If the rumor is true, I’d imagine contact was made in Hong Kong in advance, and that would be some amazing bit of spycraft given the extent of surveillance the CCP places on both Chinese citizens and foreign visitors.
The earliest report I can find of the reported defection was on June 4 from former Fox Reporter Adam Housley, who tweeted “US intelligence has a Chinese defector with Wuhan info. And China is trying to produce variants that suggest it came from bats to cover up that coronavirus ...
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my Dong is exactly where it is supposed to be.....
Which wei, left, or right?
“All war is based on deception”
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
I’m thinking the Chinese may have…maybe…read Sun Tzu.
Wouldn't they have burned all those books during the Cultural Revolution?
I am waiting to see if employees of our other security agencies start having fatal accidents or commit suicide or just disappear. We may or may not find out about such things, though, if they occur.
real men hang to the right
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With Sum Ting Wong.
Under Mao China “Standarized” the Chinese Character set to make it more universal, but also to make it harder to read old works that might be counter revolutionary.
The big guy sent them back!
Dong Jingweitried going against the great Deng Xia Peng.
The Dong got Denged to a re-education camp it the Tibetan Autonomous region where he is making yak butter and chai for the army.
Probably along with everyone who read them.
Sort of like when Common Core hit the ground, schools stopped teaching cursive?
“Sort of like when Common Core hit the ground, schools stopped teaching cursive?”
And stopped teaching history?
1984 Newspeak, change language so they are not able to even discuss revolution.
They may have kept a few copies for the People’s Liberation Army High Command. You don’t expect a society that bans guns to disarm its enforcers.
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