Posted on 09/27/2004 9:34:14 PM PDT by onyx eyes
Washington - A South Korean embassy official who met with John Kerry fund-raisers to talk about creating a political group for Korean-Americans was in fact a spy for his country, raising concerns among U.S. officials that he or Seoul may have tried to influence the fall presidential election.
South Korean and U.S. officials told The Associated Press that Chung Byung-Man, a consular officer in Los Angeles, worked for South Korea National Intelligence Service at the time he was meeting with Kerry's fund-raisers.
A spokesman for the South Korean consulate office said Chung was sent home in May amid "speculation" he became involved with the Kerry campaign and Democratic Party through contacts with fund-raiser Rick Yi and that his identity couldn't be discussed further.
According to international tradition, we cannot identify, we cannot say who he is, because he is intelligence people," spokesman Min Ryu said.
The State Department said it has discussed Chung's reported activities with the South Korean government and has no reason to doubt Seoul's representations he was an intelligence agent.
The department believes Chung's contacts with donors and fund-raisers, if accurately described in reports, were "inconsistent" with the 1963 Vienna Convention that prohibits visiting foreign officials from interfering in the internal politics and affairs of host countries, a spokesman for its legal affairs office said. Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton said the campaign did not know Chung was an intelligence agent or that YI, one of the campaign's key fund-raisers in the Asian-American community, was meeting with him until it was brought to light by the AP.
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What the hell are Kerry campaign staffers doing meeting with foreign officials regarding election issues anyway? Isn't that essentially promoting the idea that immigrant communities are beholden to the country from whence they came? And isn't that the same thing as saying he's bucking for the international vote?
Although this is almost unbelievable, why am I not surprised?
People have to start doing SERIOUS PRISON TIME for these violations. Clinton got away with it and now Kerry and his people take the opportunity as well. When you stop and think about it, this is an absolute abomination over which our founders would choke to death if they knew this stuff would ever happen.
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Well, I was hoping.... that the bergergate scandal would come up, if not before then after the election, we will need it and all of the other infractions and outright crimes the dems have committed -- because when they lose nov. 2nd., they will be especially vicious.
I know this is old posts. But thought if we keep talking about it, we may have some "effect" on it. Kapisch?
saavy
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