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Former Defense Intelligence Officer Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage
The United States Department of Justice ^ | 03/15/2019 | Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs

Posted on 03/15/2019 3:52:27 PM PDT by so_real

Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, pleaded guilty today in the District of Utah in connection with his attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Sentencing is set for Sept. 24, 2019.

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney John Huber for the District of Utah and Special Agent in Charge Paul Haertel of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office announced the charges.

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(Excerpt) Read more at justice.gov ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: braking; china; espionage
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To: so_real

Been chasing it for years... Someday when I think my Grandkids will be safe I might share it.


21 posted on 03/15/2019 4:33:32 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: blueunicorn6

String the POS up at a public gallows.


22 posted on 03/15/2019 4:33:43 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: so_real

On who’s behalf was he breaking the law. Was he connected to difi.. who else. He’s not alone


23 posted on 03/15/2019 4:40:42 PM PDT by Track9 (Conservatives like underdogs, progressive like victims.)
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To: so_real
"I've heard rumblings that HC has requested a deal and that it was refused"

Silly nonsense started from the Qult headquarters. There is no good reason (yet) to think HC has been offered or refused any such "deal" or that she has yet had any significant fear of actually being prosecuted (no matter how well justified that would be).
24 posted on 03/15/2019 4:43:28 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (Hoax hate crimes are hate crimes against the people smeared and slandered by the false accusations)
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To: so_real

Consider how little fish are used to let bigger fish go.


25 posted on 03/15/2019 4:49:48 PM PDT by aspasia
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To: so_real

With all the chemicals available today, you bleed his brain dry and when there’s nothing left, give him the hot shot of fentanyl and the box with his ashes in it to his N.O.K.


26 posted on 03/15/2019 4:52:43 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Seaplaner

Not the CIA . . .

Very interesting.


27 posted on 03/15/2019 4:53:43 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

a few secondary media outlets reporting, but cannot see any coverage from the bulk of the major FakeNewsMSM.


28 posted on 03/15/2019 5:08:46 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: so_real

29 posted on 03/15/2019 5:11:39 PM PDT by caww
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To: aspasia

30 posted on 03/15/2019 5:13:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: so_real

“not CIA, curious.” Actually, not so curious. The CIA is intelligence gathering outside the US for mainly political policy purposes. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is part of the Department of Defense and was created by Robert McNamara for him to have a single DoD agency that would provide military intelligence to him that was separate from the 3 service (Army, Navy/USMC, Air Force) intelligence organizations during the Vietnam War. Army counter-intelligence is the logical investigator for this case. The FBI handles foreign spying on US soil, the IRS would have been involved for the spy not reporting whatever amount the ChiComs paid Hansen not being reported on his taxes; and the Dept Commerce for industrial secrets. Thus the CIA wouldn’t have been involved.


31 posted on 03/15/2019 5:19:18 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Bonemaker
Of course he pled 'not guilty' first of being a spy for China and selling classified 'national defense' information.... until there was a plea deal struck.....

Hansen was paid at least $800,000 over the years, including receiving a $300,000 "consulting" fee yet he told the judge he was living on his military retirement and could not afford an attorney.

He served for 20 years as a warrant officer with a background in signals intelligence and human intelligence. He speaks fluent Mandarin-Chinese.

He was finally caught when he divulged what he was doing to a law enforcement source in an apparent effort to recruit that person

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900024781/retired-army-officer-from-utah-accused-of-spying-for-china-pleads-not-guilty.html

32 posted on 03/15/2019 5:25:49 PM PDT by caww
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To: so_real

And the same DOJ has a former ISIS terrorist working for them in NYC

Mohimanul Alam Bhuiya left New York City to travel to Syria and joined the bloodthirsty group ISIS. and now he works for the Department of Justice in NYC.

Link: https://gellerreport.com/2019/03/isis-terrorist-works-nyc-doj.html/


33 posted on 03/15/2019 5:28:47 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Track9

He got caught trying to recruit others....In 2012, he approached a U.S. Army Intelligence agent and “offered to work as a double agent against” China, according to court documents. He made the same offer to the FBI in 2015 as he continued efforts to regain access to classified information, the charges state.

But by that time, the FBI says it had already begun its investigation into Hansen.


34 posted on 03/15/2019 5:32:02 PM PDT by caww
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To: GreyFriar

He also sold export-controlled Technology to persons in China.


35 posted on 03/15/2019 5:35:47 PM PDT by caww
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To: Seaplaner

Documents listed the locations of United States Cyber Command outposts...also A passcode-protected thumb drive, hidden behind a sock in the toe of a shoe.


36 posted on 03/15/2019 5:38:54 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

He was offered $300,000 a year by two operatives of China’s powerful Ministry of State Security for “consulting services.”
...meeting the operatives in private rooms in Beijing hotels and teahouses, and said they paid him to attend events on forensics, information security and military communications. They paid him, he said, by buying computer forensic products from him at inflated rates.


37 posted on 03/15/2019 5:41:57 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

“sold technology....” Thus the reason for the Department of Commerce being involved.


38 posted on 03/15/2019 5:42:28 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: RinaseaofDs; Seaplaner; caww

See my and caww’s posts 31-35 on why it is not curious that there was no CIA involvement.


39 posted on 03/15/2019 5:46:12 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: RinaseaofDs
They're everywhere.....This former C.I.A. officer suspected of helping China unravel the agency’s spy network in that country was indicted on charges of conspiring to commit espionage.....The officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, was arrested by F.B.I. agents in January 2018 after federal prosecutors accused him of illegally possessing classified information

Lee was at the center of an intensive F.B.I. and C.I.A. investigation into how the Chinese determined the identities of agency informants. The dismantling of the C.I.A.’s spy network in China was one of the worst American intelligence failures in years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/cia-china-jerry-lee-indictment.html?module=inline

40 posted on 03/15/2019 5:51:08 PM PDT by caww
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