Anonymous ID: 977d68 Sept. 27, 2018, 6:11 p.m. No.3221414   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1791 >>1949

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China targeted Feinstein

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

 

The story of the Chinese spy was first reported in Politico on July 27 and appears to be a political “inoculation” story designed to minimize the impact on Ms. Feinstein’s re-election bid. The senator, 84, is seeking re-election and ran into opposition from more liberal California Democrats who have opposed Ms. Feinstein for being too bipartisan.

 

Politico said the recruited source in the senator’s office reported back to China’s Ministry of State Security on local politics and provided political intelligence. The agent was run by officials at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, the news outlet reported, quoting former intelligence officials.

 

Disclosure of the spy case comes as FBI Director Christopher Wray said last month that Chinese intelligence operations pose “the broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country.”

 

After years of scant prosecutions or exposure of Chinese intelligence operations, the Trump administration has stepped up counterespionage activities against the Chinese. Three recent spy cases have highlighted Chinese espionage threats.

 

They include former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Ron Rockwell Hansen, who was charged in June with spying for China; former CIA officer Kevin Mallory, who was convicted in June of conspiracy to commit espionage in attempting to sell secrets to China; and Jerry Chun Shing Lee, who was arrested in January on spy charges.

 

Intelligence officials suspect Mr. Lee compromised the CIA’s recruited agent network in China beginning in 2010.

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/8/china-targeted-dianne-feinstein-staff-member/