About the defector?
Historically, defectors are bragged on.
If we had the guy, we’d want everyone to know.
No bragging until he is debriefed. I cannot imagine them going public if he has defected even if he has given us valuable information. If he named CCP Agents in the USA, it would be kept quiet so they don’t leave before we can get to them. Or try to locate their contacts in the USA. He would have had to bring some pretty valuable information with him for the DIA to keep this quiet for so long. He had to have a damn good reason to defect, his remaining family in China would have already been arrested and put in prison if not killed.