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BREAKING: Chinese Defector's Identity Confirmed, Was Top Counterintelligence Official
Red State ^ | 06/17/2021 | Jennifer Van Laar

Posted on 06/17/2021 6:48:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

We now know the name of the Chinese defector who has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for a few months and what his position within the Chinese military and government was, among other details.

Matthew Brazil and Jeff Stein at Spy Talk reported on the “rumor,” and gave the name and background of the rumored defector:

Chinese-language anti-communist media and Twitter are abuzz this week with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei (董经纬) defected in mid-February, flying from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang.

Dong is, or was, a longtime official in China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), also known as the Guoanbu. His publicly available background indicates that he was responsible for the Ministry’s counterintelligence efforts in China, i.e., spy-catching, since being promoted to vice minister in April 2018. If the stories are true, Dong would be the highest-level defector in the history of the People’s Republic of China.

RedState’s sources confirmed that the defector is, in fact, Dong, that he was in charge of counterintelligence efforts in China, and that he flew to the United States in mid-February, allegedly to visit his daughter at a university in California. When Dong landed in California he contacted DIA officials and told them about his plans to defect and the information he’d brought with him. Dong then “hid in plain sight” for about two weeks before disappearing into DIA custody.

According to Spy Talk, Dong’s name came up during the Sino-American Summit held in Alaska in March 2021:

In a tweet on Wednesday, Han [Dr. Han Lianchao, a Chinese defector], citing an unnamed source, alleged that China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and Communist Party foreign affairs boss Yang Jiechi demanded that the Americans return Dong and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused.

RedState’s sources say that Chinese officials did demand that the United States return Dong, but Blinken didn’t exactly refuse; at that time Blinken wasn’t aware that Dong was with the US government, the sources say, and told China that the US didn’t have Dong.

It’s only in the last three to four weeks that anyone outside DIA knew about the defector, according to RedState’s sources. Prior to that time, DIA was vetting the information provided and confronting Langley officials with what they’d learned without divulging the source.

Experts quoted in the Spy Talk piece essentially say that the defection is just a rumor and that rumors happen all the time, but that if it’s true it’s a big deal but “not game-changing.” Based on conversations with sources familiar with the information Dong has already provided and its quantity and reliability, that’s simply not the case. Not only does Dong have detailed information about China’s special weapons systems, the Chinese military’s operation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and the Chinese government’s assets and sources within the United States; Dong has extremely embarrassing and damaging information about our intelligence community and government officials in the “terabytes of data” he’s provided to the DIA.

Some of the information provided by Dong was reported on by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this week:

Hundreds of Chinese nationals are the subject of a federal probe after law enforcement officials flagged their travel at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese nationals returned to the United States earlier than expected in January 2020, often having modified their travel plans.

The episode is recounted in an internal report that circulated among various national security and law enforcement agencies on June 3. That report surmises that the Chinese students returned to the United States earlier than expected in order to avoid future travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The team examined 58,000 inbound Chinese F/J visa holders in the [Passenger Name Record] database and identified 396 individuals whose return travel was [scheduled] after January 2020 but had returned in January 2020,” the report reads.

The Free Beacon reports that U.S. intelligence officials haven’t come to a conclusion about whether or not the students being investigated were spies, but RedState is told that whether or not one wants to use the term “spy,” those students were sent back to the United States with specific information-gathering directives with the purpose of helping Beijing understand the US government’s response to the pandemic at a much deeper level than they could through publicly-available documents. Those students (spies) were charged with reporting back on public policy changes, economic response and damage, impacts on the healthcare system (equipment/hospital bed shortages, etc), supply chain impacts (including how long it took things like semiconductors from China to reach the United States), civil unrest, and more.

In addition, Dong has provided DIA with the following information:

Dong also has provided DIA with copies of the contents of the hard drive on Hunter Biden’s laptop, showing the information the Chinese government has about Hunter’s pornography problem and about his (and Joe’s) business dealings with Chinese entities. Some of the files on Dong has provided shine a light on just how it was that the sale of Henniges Automotive (and their stealth technology) to Chinese military manufacturer AVIC Auto was approved.

Again, according to sources, Dong told DIA debriefers that at least a third of Chinese students attending US universities are PLA assets or part of the Thousand Talents Plan and that many of the students are here under pseudonyms. One reason for using pseudonyms is that many of these students are the children of high-ranking military and party leaders.

As we initially reported, DIA has high confidence in the veracity of Dong’s claims. The fact that since our original report, which was pooh-poohed by Langley apologists, the New York Times published a rare interview with Dr. Shi Zhengli (the WIV “Bat Woman”), ABC News has started an “investigation” into COVID-19 origins, and now the actual name of the defector has been published in an anti-Trump, CIA-friendly blog, demonstrates what sources told RedState today: “This defector has the rest of the intelligence community and the LEO community scared sh**less.”



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To: SeekAndFind

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How the Chinese government gained access to a CIA communications system, leading to the death of dozens of Chinese people who were working with the CIA

We have it all


41 posted on 06/18/2021 3:22:10 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler

Never will see the light of day


42 posted on 06/18/2021 4:04:54 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

“If this were true, these details would be classified & Red State wouldn’t have them, IMO.”

If it wasn’t true, you wouldn’t see the Rat Media collapse on the Wuhan lab leak.

There was an impetus for all this to be occurring suddenly after Dr. Fallacy had pushed the natural causes myth. He was leading the effort to suppress the truth about the ChiCom Virus in the Wuhan lab getting out.

This is the US DIA and they kept this under wraps from FIB and their sister external agency.

They have tapped the highest counterintelligence head of Communist China. This is a monumental defection, the biggest ever there.

There’s going to be severe repercussions.


43 posted on 06/18/2021 6:39:36 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“The mere fact that this has been revealed somehow is suspicious. Why have this go public? Why now?”

The head of the ChiCom counterintelligence defects early this year and disappears into the US.

There’s only so long you can keep that under wraps. It had to come out.


44 posted on 06/18/2021 6:41:17 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

“What defectors tell us would be kept secret,”

Not everything would be kept secret. As the DIA has been running the head of ChiCom counterintelligence, they kept others in the dark.

DIA felt there are compromised people inside the FIB and their sister agency not to mention the State Department.

There was an obvious strategy to rehabilitate the ChiComs and the NY Slimes were given the head biatch Bat Lady.

The DIA is not having it.


45 posted on 06/18/2021 6:45:10 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: Gnome1949

“If the United States military is still loyal to the U.S. Constitution, they must arrest every traitor fingered by this defector.”

Lord, hear our prayer.


46 posted on 06/18/2021 6:46:09 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: Gnome1949

“gives the military a lot of leverage over traitors to surrender and fess up or be executed. The information would be detailed enough so that traitors in America would know they have no place to run and no place to hide.

I believe we are in the end game of the destruction of the traitorous Deep State.”

^^^ THIS ^^^


47 posted on 06/18/2021 6:57:09 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq

Bookmark


48 posted on 06/18/2021 6:59:40 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Brilliant

“Why would we talk about this publicly?”

Smoke out the traitors and make the failed coverup intel agencies sweat.


49 posted on 06/18/2021 7:02:35 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: Brilliant

Control the story before the other “orgs” can spread a narrative.


50 posted on 06/18/2021 7:24:48 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Gnome1949
Not exactly. This was playing out inside the US Gov, and Blinken knew nothing about it. The Chicoms called him on it, so, clearly, State Dept. has leaked it:
RedState’s sources say that Chinese officials did demand that the United States return Dong, but Blinken didn’t exactly refuse; at that time Blinken wasn’t aware that Dong was with the US government, the sources say, and told China that the US didn’t have Dong.

It’s only in the last three to four weeks that anyone outside DIA knew about the defector, according to RedState’s sources. Prior to that time, DIA was vetting the information provided and confronting Langley officials with what they’d learned without divulging the source.

51 posted on 06/18/2021 6:57:01 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: GOPJ; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Thanks GOPJ.

52 posted on 06/19/2021 3:21:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind; krogers58; gandalftb; AmericanInTokyo; SunkenCiv
Odd that a defector is handled by DIA => probably not correct.

According to Bill Gertz it is probably another defector:

https://twitter.com/BillGertz/status/1406018888618463237

For those saying MSS Vice Minister Dong Jingwei defected to the US, this Chinese report today says he spoke at a conference in China. Must have flown back to give the speech
https://twitter.com/BillGertz/status/1405978398225321990

It could be disinformation to try to reduce the impact of other CCP defectors, like the one last year. Time will tell.

53 posted on 06/19/2021 1:07:00 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

Could be a smoke machine diversion to provide cover for the eventual “unexplained death” of the COVID informant.


54 posted on 06/20/2021 5:41:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AdmSmith

I think the DIA is correct. They likely know of the compromised people at the CIA/FBI/DOJ so military intelligence can protect him much better.


55 posted on 06/22/2021 11:01:49 AM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: Coffee_drinker

A U.S. official familiar with intelligence reports said the reported defection is false.

Two other government sources said they do not believe Mr. Dong defected, but declined to say whether U.S. intelligence agencies may have a high-level defector from one of the Chinese spy services.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/24/defection-rumors-coincide-chinese-communist-loyalt/


56 posted on 06/25/2021 8:16:08 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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