Posted on 06/23/2006 4:34:36 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
A former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst has pleaded guilty to illegally holding classified documents and admitted in a plea agreement to passing "top secret" information to Chinese intelligence officials.
Ronald N. Montaperto, the former analyst who held a security clearance as a China specialist at a U.S. Pacific Command research center until 2004, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful retention of national defense information, according to court papers and law officials familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"Montaperto admitted to verbally providing [Chinese military] attaches a considerable amount of information that was useful to them, including classified information," according to a statement of facts submitted in the case.
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Git a rope
Put this guy in jail for the rest of his life.
What's with all these people?
Firing squad at noon.
A plea bargain? Why do we not execute these people?
What a dummy. All he had to do was pass it to the New York Times, and let them transmit it for him.
His minders in Beijing could read it in the overseas edition, and he could count the interest in his numbered accounts without having to worry about such downers as "arrest" and "incarceration".
Montaperto, 66, joined the DIA in 1981 and eight years later sought a post at the CIA that eventually led to suspicions he was a spy for China. An investigation of his links to Chinese intelligence in 1991 was dropped for lack of evidence.
He had been part of a DIA program involving authorized contacts with Chinese embassy officials. However, the statement said Montaperto failed to report his contacts, as required by security rules.
Now what did they used to do to traitors - in the good ole days?
Where does it say he was a Clintanoid. or that a given.
And why does Clinton get off Scot free?
Too bad he did it clandestinely.
If he'd denounced the TS material in public and said he was a whistleblower revealing this stuff to protect freedom, then he could have kept his job, been lauded by the MSM, and probably been promoted to a high CIA position.
The Chinese could have quietly paid him, and everything would have been hunky-dory.
Its time for Jack Bauers. He'll take careof the Basta#d!
FYI Ping
Top secret intel GIVEN TO CHINA under Clinton, ping
You make an unsettling and yet likely point about this- and somehow I think you're not far from the truth..
I don't understand. He passed informtion to the Chines about the sale of Chinese equipment and missles to the Middle East? Who was selling the Chinese stuff to the ME, if not the Chinese.
By bet is that he voted Carter, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and gets his news exclusively from the MSM.
"RONALD MONTAPERTO: I think that’s completely wrong. I see no evidence . I don’t speak for this administration, of course. But there are plenty, plenty of sticks involved in all of this. What we are talking about is the beginning of a process. Now, take the relationship between our military and the Chinese military. There is no thought, for example, that there would be a transfer of weapons. There is no thought that there would be a transfer of sensitive technologies. There is no thought that there would be any kind of--that we would undertake anything that would turn them into a more efficient or a better fighting force. Our approach with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the PLA, involves the discussion of strategic issues, a discussion of broad concepts of strategy and doctrine, things of that sort. That’s a stick."
Yes,Good Point, who did he give money too in the 2000,2004 Election Cycle
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