Posted on 02/11/2008 9:00:33 AM PST by khnyny
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials say a U.S. government official and up to four Chinese nationals are being charged with spying on the United States.
The Associated Press has learned they are being accused of spying and giving U.S. military secrets to the Chinese government.
Law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity say the charges are being unsealed later Monday by federal courts in California and Virginia. The officials asked for anonymity because the case has not yet been made public.
It was not immediately clear where in the government the unnamed U.S. official worked.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Any named Hsu or Huang, by chance?
Well, at least we caught some of them...
This could be interesting. Wonder if it is a Clintoon holdover?’
Let me guess........ all four a Hillary! campaign staffers?
Unless any of them are named Clinton, this is just smoke.
Follow up on the L3 case?
China isn’t gonna like this. Expect new Americans getting busted for spying on China.
or Riady
000ooo...
Chinese? suhprise suhprise..
NOT!
Maybe they’ll finger Bill Clinton as their “handler”.
Clinton appointee holdover or hire-ee...
They will not so there is no need for any stinking news conference.
Every single one will walk regardless of guilt and the US will do nothing about it.
Hang ‘em
Pretty tall guy.
20 minutes later will they have to be charged again?
Oh please. You KNOW the trail leads back to HillBillary and Co.
Of course, there will be no such connection made.
Ouch !
This one is gonna be big!
Well, there’s 4 American Olympians who will soon have problems overseas.
It’s past time to hang a couple of these SOBs!
Cut their heads off.
Bill Gertz had some more details:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/NATION/718249348/1001
Looks like it is likely more than a total of 5 people arrested. Three arrested in Virginia and other arrests in Louisiana and California.
Nope. That has not been traditionally our way.
Hang them, in public.
Ping.
Hmmm. Well I would speculate the Chinese got 1000 times more valuable information from us then them. What would our spying reveal, how able they are at reverse engineering and producing our stolen secrets? Come on, this kind of this can be largely observed by satellite and data analytics.
Gertz reports that this grew out of the Chi Mak case. I did a keyword search and noted that you were posting articles relating to the case.
Clinton?
That’s good news.
me and a few others here have a thing about bad Chi ;-)
It’s tit for tat. They will arrest Americans whether or not they were spying.
DOJ press release:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/February/08_nsd_105.html
excerpt:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tai Shen Kuo, age 58, and Yu Xin Kang, age 33, both of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Gregg William Bergersen, age 51, of Alexandria, Virginia, were arrested today on espionage charges related to the passage of classified U.S. government documents and information to the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Both Kuo and Kang were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to disclose national defense information to a foreign government, in violation of 18 U.S.C., Section 794(a) and (c). Bergersen was charged in a separate complaint with conspiracy to disclose national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, in violation of 18 U.S.C., Section 793(d) and (g).
Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg of the Eastern District of Virginia; and Arthur M. Cummings, II, Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, made the announcement today. Bergersen and Kuo are scheduled to make their initial appearances in federal court in Alexandria today. Kang will make her initial appearance in federal court in New Orleans.
“Today’s prosecution demonstrates that foreign spying remains a serious threat in the post-Cold War world. The conspiracy charged in this case has all the elements of a classic espionage operation: a foreign government focused on accessing our military secrets; foreign operatives who effectively use stealth and guile to gain that access; and an American government official who is willing to betray both his oath of public office and the duty of loyalty we rightly demand from every American citizen. Such espionage networks pose a grave danger to our national security, and we should all thank the investigators and prosecutors on this case for effectively penetrating and dismantling this network before more sensitive information was compromised,” said Assistant Attorney General Wainstein.
U.S. Attorney Rosenberg stated: “Those who compromise classified national security information betray the enormous responsibility and trust placed in them by our government and the American people.”
No MSM is covering the DOJ press conference. The press conference was supposed to start at 2:00 p est.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330320,00.html
WASHINGTON — The FBI was raiding a home in New Orleans on Monday in connection with a spy investigation of U.S. military secrets being illegally given to China.
A Defense Department analyst with security clearances was among the three or four people being charged in what law enforcement officials described as separate cases in Virginia and California
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080211/twl-shuttle-secrets-stolen-for-china-3fd0ae9_4.html
A former Boeing engineer has been charged with stealing Space Shuttle secrets for China, the US Justice Department said.
He is one of four people arrested in the US on suspicion of spying for China, the spokesman added.
The documents are said to relate to several aerospace programmes, including the Space Shuttle.
Three others - including a US Defense Department official - are being held over a separate espionage case.
That involves the alleged passing of classified US government documents to China, the spokesman added.
They were named as Tai Shen Kuo, 58, and Yu Xin Kang, 33, both from New Orleans, Louisiana, and Gregg William Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, Virginia.
The first two have been charged with “conspiracy to disclose national defence information to a foreign government”.
Bergersen is accused of “conspiracy to disclose national defence information to persons not entitled to receive it”.
-snip-
unbelievable
Just like whenever they mention the thug Tony Pellicano, they always say, detective to the stars whose clients include Michael Jackson & Michael Ovitz. They never mention Hillary Clinton hired this goon to doctor up the Gennifer Flowers tape and lie about it being a fake, spliced together. Later he was proved to be lying and the tape was authentic. No doubt he was also hired to intimidate “bimbos”.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UO9RJO2&show_article=1
-snip-
Additionally, two Chinese immigrants accused of working with the defense analyst were arrested after an FBI raid Monday morning on a New Orleans home where one of them lived.
The two cases—based in Alexandria, Va., and Los Angeles—have no connection, and investigators said it was merely a coincidence that charges would be brought against both on the same day.
The cases show “that foreign spying remains a serious threat in the post-Cold War world,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein said in a prepared statement.
The Justice Department was to discuss the charges at an afternoon news conference in Washington.
Prosecutors said defense analyst Gregg W. Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, Va., sold classified defense information to a New Orleans businessman for an undisclosed amount of money. In return, the businessman, identified as Tai Kuo, 58, a naturalized U.S. citizen, forwarded the information to the Chinese government.
Much of the data concerned U.S. military sales to Taiwan, prosecutors said. A third alleged conspirator in the case, Chinese national Yu Xin Kang, 33, served as the go-between for Kuo and the People’s Republic of China, according to prosecutors.
Kuo and Bergersen, a weapons systems policy analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency in Arlington, Va., were set to appear in federal court in Alexandria on Monday. Kang was to appear in New Orleans.
-snip-
Gregg Bergersen was also formerly Director, C4ISR Programs Navy International Program Office (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance)
Could be huge.
I think the MSM coverage should be huge to dissuade any other little f’er out there who’s doing something they shouldn’t. Sorry, but this type of stuff is treason.
OK Freepers go to work, By any chance has Bergerson donated to the Wicked Witch?
I believe this news is related to this thread.
DOJ:Former Boeing Engineer Charged With Economic Espionage
February 11, 2008: 02:07 PM EST
“...Dongfan “Greg” Chung is alleged to have taken and concealed Boeing trade secrets relating to the Space Shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV rocket...”
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200802111407DOWJONESDJONLINE000490_FORTUNE5.htm
Sorry I just now saw this in post 39 here.
“...The two cases—based in Alexandria, Va., and Los Angeles—have no connection, and investigators said it was merely a coincidence that charges would be brought against both on the same day...”
It is confusing that all indictments happened today, apparently.
Yep. It got me. Sorry for messing with your thread. After years of work on the ChinaGate project here at FR these tend to grab my attention. :-)
ONLY 4?
And still we keep letting them in.
As the Oakland Raiders would say, “you’re not tryin if you’re cheatin” in this case spyin’.
I just hope we’re spying on them just as much as they are on us. In fact, this may have come about from some spies we have over there.......... wishful thinking I guess.
As the Oakland Raiders would say, “you’re not tryin if you’re not cheatin” in this case spyin’.
I just hope we’re spying on them just as much as they are on us. In fact, this may have come about from some spies we have over there.......... wishful thinking I guess.
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