Just for the Hill of it.
Posted on 01/16/2018 9:25:27 PM PST by keat
WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. ...
The counterintelligence investigation into how the Chinese managed to hunt down American agents was a source of friction between the C.I.A. and F.B.I.
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Mr. Lee had previously traveled to the United States in 2012 to live with his family in Virginia. It was during that trip that F.B.I. agents searched his luggage during hotel stays in Hawaii and Virginia and found two small books with handwritten notes that contained classified information. He later made his way back to Hong Kong after being questioned by F.B.I. agents in 2013.
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More than a dozen C.I.A. informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government. The extent to which the informant network was unraveled, reported last year by The New York Times, was a devastating setback for the C.I.A.
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The C.I.A. declined to comment on Mr. Lee’s arrest.
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Prosecutors said that both before and after he and his family moved back to the United States in 2012, Mr. Lee met with former C.I.A. colleagues and other government employees.
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The F.B.I. suspected an insider had revealed sensitive information to the Chinese government, a theory not initially embraced by the C.I.A.
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Former intelligence officials said that the F.B.I. lured Mr. Lee back to the United States as part of a ruse and he was interviewed five times in May and June 2013. The authorities said he never disclosed the two books, described as an address book and a datebook, to investigators.
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Why the F.B.I. did not arrest Mr. Lee after originally finding the classified material in his notebooks remains unclear. The F.B.I. declined to comment.
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CIA agents were murdered and this guy ed allowed to travel freely to and from the US.
It appears the FBI may have been prevented from arresting him.
More to come I hope.
If Lee left the CIA in 2007, it was under Pres. Bush’s administration.
The real question is who was running the FBI and the CIA during the Bush years and who was right (the FBI) or wrong (CIA) about Lee being a Red Chinese agent.
Was Comey there under Bush? Who was the CIA director (I don’t recall - Clapper, Brennan, Morrell, Woolsey, etc)?
Just for the Hill of it.
Ex-Secretary of State Suspected of Compromising USA Is Arrested
Under Obama’s watch and probably a Clinton hire, recommended by one of their good friends who used to deliver suitcases full of cash to the white house. The names Johnny Chung and Charlie Trie come to mind... Treason, part and parcel of the Clinton Foundation.
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