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Duane Cates #SoulWAR
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Thread: THE D.I.A. **DONG-ED** THE CCP!!
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/06/17/breaking-chinese-defector-confirmed-as-top-counterintelligence-official-n398374
This story from RED STATE broke on June 17th & promptly BROKE the internet.
I have never read a singular story with more THERMONUCLEAR BOMBS dropping in it than this one.
If (& it’s a BIG IF!) even ONE of these Nukes turns out to be vetted & verified it is a Game-Changer for US/China relations.
Really what’s just inferred by the existence & actions of this Defector are also incredible.

BREAKING: Chinese Defector’s Identity Confirmed, Was Top Counterintelligence Official
redstate.com
June 21, 2021, 5:41 AM · Web · 5 · 90 · 122
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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
The Defector’s name is Dong Jingwei (董经纬) who isn’t just “a” Top Internal Security Official for the Guoanbu, the CCP’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) apparently he was THE Chief of that Agency & therefore China’s #1 “Spy-Catcher.”
This is the highest ranking Official ever to defect from the CCP & it’s claimed he brought “terabytes” of Data with him that are devastating to the CCP & it’s ongoing US & Worldwide Operations I’ve called a GLOBAL CRIME SPREE.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
Dong, under false pretense, traveled to the US in mid February to visit his daughter who was attending a US University.
Upon arrival, he instead arranged for her safety then contacted **D.I.A. Officials** & told them of his plans to defect & that he had brought “highly sensitive” information with him.
After moving & acting “normally” as if he was, indeed, paying his daughter a visit both disappeared into D.I.A. custody in early March.
The D.I.A. has been QUIETLY debriefing Dong ever since.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
How quietly?
When Biden’s Secretary of State & his useless Minions were being humiliated at their Alaska Summit in Mid March where the Chinese Officials, once they were done SNEERING at Blinken & Company, demanded Dong be returned to them.
What happened next was quite telling.
The MSM, if they covered this at all stated Blinken simply refused.
What ACTUALLY happened is **Blinken had NO IDEA Dong had defected** & didn’t even appear to know who Dong was or that he was in US Custody.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
Ponder that for a moment.
The US SECRETARY OF STATE had not a clue WHO Dong was or that he’s been in US Custody for at least 2 weeks.
That ANY high ranking CCP Official had defected wasn’t confirmed until early JUNE with a C.I.A. “Friendly” Website called SPY TALK dropping his name on June 17th.
Up until that point, after the CCP demand of Dong’s return, it was only a rumor that swirled throughout DC & the Intelligence Community.
THROUGH APRIL.
THROUGH MAY.
As the D.I.A. vetted Dong’s Intel.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
It’s because Dong wasn’t really in “US Custody.”
He was in the custody of the DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGANCY which, unlike the civilian C.I.A. is a part of the US **MILITARY**
Here’s what I’m suspecting= Dong was a D.I.A. ASSET & may have been one for years.
He called his military counterparts upon arrival & negotiated his defection on HIS terms & they accepted.
As it took 2 weeks to arrange it I’m thinking it wasn’t planned at all on our side.
Dong drove the entire event.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
The Red State Article covers was Dong supposedly brought with him.
Before I start in on that let me prime all of this by saying that “if” the USA has been compromised to the gills by a decades long **undeclared** INFORMATION & INFLUENCE War with literally 100’s of out top Industrialists, Politicians & even Sports Figures compromised or sold out to the CCP Dong’s intel would be a GODSEND.
Literally TOO GOOD to be TRUE.
So I’m quite wary at this point.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
Here’s what Dong plopped into the D.I.A.’s Lap=
*Early pathogenic studies of the virus we now know as SARS-CoV-2
*Models of predicted COVID-19 spread and damage to the US and the world
*Financial records detailing which exact organizations and governments funded the research on SARS-CoV-2 and other biological warfare research
**IF TRUE** those three data points aren’t just a Smoking Gun, that’s a Smoking CANNON.
Aimed right at us.
Biological Warfare.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
This means my initial thoughts on COVID-19 were spot on.
The CCP released it to offset the Trump Economy that was FORCING them to the Bargaining Table to end what I call their GLOBAL CRIME SPREE.
If they were studying Models of the effects of SARS-2 on the US that’s not just an act of War, it’s an ACT OF GENOCIDE.
We destroyed the Nazi’s Third Reich & replaced their government with Germans we could work with & the Nazi threat to US Interests never even approached what the CCP’s done to us.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
*Names of US citizens who provide intel to China
*Names of Chinese spies working in the US or attending US universities
*Financial records showing US businessmen and public officials who’ve received money from the Chinese government
*Details of meetings US government officials had (perhaps unwittingly) with Chinese spies and members of Russia’s SVR
Dong’s Data, again, if this is TRUE, is a DIAMOND MINE.
Perhaps the biggest Intelligence Coup in World History.
It NAMES NAMES.
Spies.
TRAITORS.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
“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.”
There are currently THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY **THOUSAND** Chinese Nationals in the US.
Mostly Students.
Dong says 110,000 are PLA Assets.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
Here are just EIGHT “PLA Assets” activated on May 31st attacking a WHITE HOUSE BARRICADE.
The reason the Unit Leader is saying “LEAVE QUICKLY” is because they’ve completed their **assigned task.**
Which was to weaken/drop the barricade & then LEAVE as AMERICAN Protesters would then STORM the White House to be shot to pieces by “Orange Hitler’s” GESTAPO.
https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1267458055140192256?s=20
The MSM was tipped off to be RIGHT THERE to capture it all.
But the Capitol Police & Secret Service HELD THE LINE.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
A LOT happened that night.
St Johns Historic Church was set on fire as over 50 Capitol Police & Uniformed Secret Service has to be hospitalized for HOLDING that line after the Barricades were knocked down (with those PLA Asset’s “help”)
In case anyone did manage to breach WH security a quick thinking Secret Service Official moved President Trump & his family to the WH Bunker.
SOMEHOW US.GOV KNEW THERE WERE PLA TERRORISTS IN THE CROWD.
This is another reason why Trump was Bunkered.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
As the MSM gleefully wrote Stories throughout the night about DRUMPF hiding in his Bunker (The SS **ordered** him into the Bunker, he doesn’t make that call) Trump fumed & RAGED at the **TERRORIST ATTACK** on the White House & St Johns Church.
So the next day he sent a “message” to BLM, ANTIFA AAAND the CCP.
With his now infamous “POWER WALK.”
Trump was 100% DEFIANCE in that walk & his words in front of the Church.
NOW YOU KNOW WHY.
(Read ABC’s Headline)

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
That Night was supposed to END Trump’s Presidency.
20-30 **AMERICAN** “Protesters” were supposed to be SHOT DEAD on the White House Lawn.
A disaster.
A MSM feeding frenzy like you can’t imagine.
We dodged a NIGHTMARE.
To cover up what happened this is WHY all of the Democrats go so HARD at Trump’s Photo Op the next day.
To drown out his message & in enraged ANGER at his defiance.
“Peaceful” MY ASS.
It’s US & Trump who are peaceful.
But not for much longer IF Dong’s intel is accurate.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
“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.”
They should be.
Because the Tide has turned in this INFO WAR.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
Trump’s former (& far too brief) NSA Advisor was also a former Director of the D.I.A. who was fired for embarrassing then President Obama & top US Officials by refusing to do what I call “the Happy Dance” regarding Al Qaeda’s actual capabilities to threaten US Interests Worldwide.
Gee, I wonder if Dong was a D.I.A. Asset before his defection & if so, for how long?
I wonders, yes, I wonders!
This is like trying to defuse a BOMB in the Heart of the USA.
a 350,000 lb Bomb.
Be patient.

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Duane Cates #SoulWAR @DuaneCates@social.quodverum.com
THE SILENT PROFESSIONALS
are at work.
All Day.
All Night.
For people who claim they’re winning I find the Biden ASTERISK Presidency strangely inept, out of the loop & floundering.
Waiting for these “nukes” to be verified is going to be rotten for me.
I HATE WAITING.
Imagine being a AMERICAN CCP Asset waiting for a knock at the Door.
#Cheers!!

From your post:
That ANY high ranking CCP Official had defected wasn’t confirmed until early JUNE with a C.I.A. “Friendly” Website called SPY TALK dropping his name on June 17th.

Don't know if this is the same Spytalk website but interesting none the less.

Chinese Defector Mystery Deepens Beijing’s sketchy report of Dong Jingwei’s appearance at a spy-catcher seminar only adds suspicion that top counterintelligence official fled to U.S.
Matthew Brazil and Jeff Stein
22 hr ago

Where is Dong Jingwei? Widespread rumors that China's top counterintelligence official had defected to the United States last February reached a fever pitch over the weekend, propelled largely by unfounded reports in anticommunist and pro-Trump circles that Dong had brought with him evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic had originated in a leak from a virology lab in Wuhan, not from an animal source.

The Wuhan lab leak theory has not been proven. The vast majority of researchers believes the virus leapt from an infected animal to a person, probably via Wuhan’s “wet market,” where both live and butchered meat is sold, but definitive evidence has yet to be found. The controversy has been further exacerbated by Chinese secrecy, which has aided the campaign by pro-Taiwan and Donald Trump allies to deflect blame for the spread of the pandemic away from the former president and onto Beijing.

The magnitude of the rumors about the supposed flight of Dong, 57, the number two official in the Ministry of State Security, along with his daughter Dong Yang, from Hong Kong five months ago appears to have rattled Beijing. Within 24 hours of SpyTalk’s June 17 story on the billowing controversy, China’s officially sanctioned media reported that Dong had appeared at a MSS seminar on the mainland where he “urged the country’s intelligence officers” to crack down on enemy spies, according to an account in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. But the reports did not say where the seminar took place, nor did they include photos or video of Dong’s supposed appearance, further raising suspicions about his status.

China is loathe to admit an official’s defection. “The CCP has never admitted any defection of its MSS officers,” Dr. Han Lianchao, a former Chinese foreign ministry official who defected after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, told SpyTalk in an email on Monday. “For example, Yu Qiangsheng, who was a department-level MSS official…defected to the U.S. in 1985, but China never admitted his defection, even today.” Yu’s defection led to the FBI’s arrest of Larry Wu-tai Chin, a longtime Chinese mole in the CIA. Beijing denied any knowledge of Chin and called reports of him being their mole ”fabricated by American anti-China forces,” Han said.

Dong “was last seen in public in September 2020,” Han told SpyTalk last week. Dong’s photos have been deleted by the Chinese search engine Baidu, according to some Chinese-language news reports abroad.

The absence of any photos of Dong at the supposed June 18 seminar is doubly suspicious, Han said, because Beijing has not been shy about publicizing his public meetings before. In 2018, party officials posted a photo of him in Germany, along with his boss Chen Yixin, attending a high level Sino-German security meeting. “Therefore there’s no excuse for not posting a recent photo of Dong to refute the rumor,” Han said.

In a June 16 tweet, Han, 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. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused, Han alleged.

“My tweet about Dong Jingwei came from a source from China,” Han told SpyTalk on Monday, “and I used it to make a point that rumors are flying all over China today because the CCP’s digital dictatorship has totally stopped the free flow of information.”

Former Pentagon, State Department and CIA China expert Nicholas Eftimiades says it’s telling that “Beijing has made no flat denial and hasn't produced Dong publicly. So there is no clear indication of what's happening.” But he disputed Han’s account of Chinese censorship on the matter. “Chinese social media shows no sign of being scrubbed of comments about Dong,” he said. “It's full of comments about this situation.” Which leads him to suspect that reports of Dong’s defection may be false.

“If Dong really did defect, the CCP would squelch public discussion,” Eftimiades told SpyTalk. While its report of Dong attending the June 18 spy-catchers’ conference “doesn't seem to ring true,” he added, there’s also “no sign of face-saving”—producing him in public—”in anticipation of the [party’s] 1 July CCP centenary."

The Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921 and took power in 1949 after a century of civil wars and foreign occupation, including the Japanese conquest that began in the 1930s and ended only with Tokyo’s surrender to the U.S. in 1945.

Beijing has not officially knocked down the rumors, and Washington is remaining mum, as is customary in defector cases.

f the defection of Dong—a rough equivalent of the FBI’s deputy director—is real, shock waves would be felt in every corner of the Ministry of State Security, added Eftimiades, author of Chinese Espionage: Operations and Tactics.

"The Chinese side is likely taking normal damage control action, such as pulling officers and agents out of places they shouldn't be and assessing what harm is done should Dong tell the American all he knows,” Eftimiades said. “But his access was probably limited to counterintelligence matters and didn't include a wider range of secrets.

“But Beijing might have a much bigger problem on its hands,” he added. “Did Dong just decide to defect, or has he been an intelligence asset for some period of time?" U.S. officials rarely confirm the reported defection of Chinese or other adversary officials, and for good reason.

Grim Fate of Traitors China’s modern history is full of examples of traitors being brought to account by assassination, particularly during the revolution that triumphed in 1949. Today, a minor book and film industry in China celebrates such revolutionary justice, and unofficial outlets such as "Iron and Blood," a military-oriented website, occasionally boast of the successful assassinations of defectors. One site posted a colorful screed about the supposed revenge mission against Yu Qiangsheng, whose defection to America led to the 1985 arrest of Larry Wu-tai Chin. A lower key Chinese account claimed that Yu was tracked down in South America two years after his defection, by a hit team of five MSS agents, who drowned him in the ocean. That account claimed that the mission commander was promoted afterward to an important position.

In 2015, the Obama Administration warned China in August 2015 to cease their covert operations to track down another defector, Ling Wanzheng, who had sheltered in the U.S. China’s erstwhile communist ally Russia is notorious for tracking down and assassinating defectors.

A Western former intelligence official who served several tours in China told SpyTalk that previous major defections have caused earthquakes within the leadership and party apparatus, to include the downfall of senior communist officials. The last such incident was the attempted defection in 2012 of Wang Lijun (王立军), then head of the Public Security Bureau in Chongqing, China's largest city. In that mysterious episode, Wang spent 30 hours at the U.S. consulate in Chengdu detailing widespread Chinese corruption, but was refused asylum. Wang was “never heard from again,” a former official whose responsibilities were focused on Chinese espionage, told SpyTalk. The same official said that in a previous failed defection—he was unwilling to be more specific—Beijing’s “reaction was pretty severe, both against MSS cadre (several executed) and against us.”

In 2017, the New York Times reported that China’s security forces “systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.” The nongovernmental organization Human Rights in China wrote that Wang's defection attempt "was nothing short of a big bomb that sent shock waves through the Beijing political circles. The person who took a direct hit,” it said, was “Wang’s former boss, Bo Xilai (薄熙来), the party secretary of Chongqing and aspirant for a seat in the Politburo’s nine-member Standing Committee."

Bo Xilai is now in prison, and his rival, Xi Jinping, runs China.The former Western official further remarked that Xi Jinping himself could be at risk if Dong’s rumored defection turned out to be true. As a result of his so-called anti-corruption campaign and other moves to eliminate rivals, Xi “has developed powerful enemies inside the party,” in spite of his popularity among ordinary people.

Gordon G. Chang, a conservative Chinese American author and columnist who’s been predicting the collapse of the CCP for 20 years, told the pro-Trump NewsMax site on Saturday that Dong’s defection, if true, could "even lead to the fall of the Communist Party."

U.S.-China spy wars, normally rather low key and esoteric affairs, have turned radioactive, energized by the crosswinds of each side’s internal politics and intensifying global competition. It’s not likely that the l’affair Dong Jingwei will go away soon.

Imagine “the humiliation” for China “if he suddenly pops up in the American media,” said Eftimiades. “They may be gambling the U.S. won't allow him to go public, but it would be quite a humiliation for them if he did. And the likelihood is that, if the U.S. does have him, that information will eventually leak and become public.”

SpyTalk Conributing Editor Matthew Brazil is the co-author, with Peter Mattis, of Chinese Communist Espionage, An Intelligence Primer. SpyTalk Editor-in-Chief Jeff Stein earned an M.A. in China Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

https://www.spytalk.co/p/chinese-defector-mystery-deepens