MAY 24, 2017 : (FBI AGENTS INTERVIEW KEVIN MALLORY) Mallory told the FBI Agents that he had come to the May 24, 2017 meeting voluntarily, expecting to meet with Employee3. Upon arrival, he was introduced to the FBI agents.
8 During the May 24 meeting with the FBI agents, Mallory signed a voluntary consent form permitting the FBI to search the device provided to Mallory by PRC1, which he had brought to the meeting. At that time, the FBI extracted an image of the device, and returned the device to Mallory.
The FBI conducted further technical examination of the imaged copy of the device after the interview. ....
While demonstrating the capabilities of the device at the meeting on May 24, 2017, Mallory voluntarily showed agents how to move from normal message mode to secure message mode. When doing this, Mallory expressed surprise at seeing some secure message history. Prior to the demonstration, he had told the agents that he believed the communication system was designed to delete all previous history. When questioned on the secure messages which were visible on the device, Mallory pointed out to the agents which messages he had sent and which messages PRC1 had sent. One message he had sent stated, “I can also come In the middle of June I can, bring the remainder of the documents I have at that time.”
33. Upon questioning, Mallory said that comment was a reference to the two white papers he had already told agents about regarding open source U.S. policy information. Mallory stated that the reference to the “remainder of the documents” was just stringing PRC1 along, and that he did not actually have anything to give PRC1.
....Mallory made materially false statements during the FBI interview on May 24, 2017 in Ashburn, Virginia. After being informed of the identities of federal agents, Mallory knowingly and willfully made numerous materially false statements about sending documents to presumed PRC I0s, including by:
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• Claiming to FBI agents that he had not provided additional documents, beyond two
unclassified white papers, to individuals he identified as PRC I0s.
• Claiming to FBI agents that he had never transmitted documents, other than a test
message, using the device.
—— http://www.alexandrianews.org/2017/anfiles/2017/06/Kevin-Mallory-Criminal-Complaint.pdf
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FBI agents interviewed Mallory – who told them that he met with two people from a Chinese think tank that he now suspects were Chinese intelligence agents.
The suspected operatives gave Mallory a “special communications device” to securely transmit documents, which he claimed was only used to transmit two unclassified “white papers” on U.S. policy matters.—— BREAKING: Former State Dept And CIA Employee Arrested, Charged With Federal Espionage, iBankCoin, 6/22/17
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“Kevin Mallory was previously entrusted with Top Secret clearance and therefore had access to classified information, which he allegedly shared and planned to continue sharing with representatives of a foreign government,” said Mr. Vale. “Furthermore, he allegedly misled investigators in a voluntary interview about sharing of this classified information. The FBI will continue to investigate those individuals who put our national security at risk through unauthorized disclosures of information.”
During a voluntary interview with FBI agents on May 24, Mallory stated that PRC1 represented himself as working for a People’s Republic of China think tank, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). Since at least 2014, the FBI has assessed that Chinese intelligence officers have used SASS affiliation as cover identities.
Mallory told FBI agents he travelled to Shanghai separately in March and April to meet with PRC1 and PRC1’s boss. After Mallory consented to a review of a device he had been using to communicate with PRC1, FBI viewed a message from Mallory to PRC1 in which Mallory stated that he had blacked out security classification markings on documents transmitted to PRC1. Analysis of the device also revealed a handwritten index describing eight different documents. Four of the eight documents listed in the index were found stored on the device, with three containing classified information pertaining to the same U.S. government agency. One of those documents was classified TOP SECRET, while the remaining two documents were classified SECRET.
—— JUSTICE NEWS, Dept of Justice Office of Public Affairs, Thursday June 22, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/virginia-man-arrested-and-charged-espionage
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24. On May 24, 2017, Mallory submitted to a voluntary interview with the FBI in Ashburn, Virginia. Mallory told the FBI agents he had been contacted on a social media site by a Chinese recruiter (hereinafter “PRC2”) in or around February 2017. Mallory recounted that, over 7 the next several days, he had phone interviews with PRC2 and was introduced by PRC2 to a potential client (PRC1, discussed above). Mallory told the agents that he travelled to Shanghai separately in March 2017 and April 2017 to meet with PRC1 and PRC1’s boss (hereinafter “PRC3”). 25. Mallory told the agents that he had reached out in or around March 2017 to one or
more former co-workers (to include two individuals, hereinafter “Employee 1” and “Employee2”) from a U.S. government agency (hereinafter “USGA1”) requesting they help him get in contact with a specific department in USGA1. Mallory told agents that Employeel and Employee2 did not facilitate any contact with the specific department, or anyone at USGA1, as he had requested.
Mallory described to the agents how he again contacted Employeel in April 2017 requesting help arranging a meeting with USGA1 to discuss people Mallory had recently met with in the PRC.
Based on its investigation, the FBI knows this contact to have occurred after Mallory was subjected to a secondary search and interview by CBP.—— —— http://www.alexandrianews.org/2017/anfiles/2017/06/Kevin-Mallory-Criminal-Complaint.pdf