Posted on 06/18/2021 7:37:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Here’s more from red state:
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/06/17/breaking-chinese-defector-confirmed-as-top-counterintelligence-official-n398374
We now know the name of the Chinese defector who has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for a few months and what his position within the Chinese military and government was, among other details.
Matthew Brazil and Jeff Stein at Spy Talk reported on the “rumor,” and gave the name and background of the rumored defector:
Chinese-language anti-communist media and Twitter are abuzz this week with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei (董经纬) defected in mid-February, flying from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang.
Dong is, or was, a longtime official in China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), also known as the Guoanbu. His publicly available background indicates that he was responsible for the Ministry’s counterintelligence efforts in China, i.e., spy-catching, since being promoted to vice minister in April 2018. If the stories are true, Dong would be the highest-level defector in the history of the People’s Republic of China.
RedState’s sources confirmed that the defector is, in fact, Dong, that he was in charge of counterintelligence efforts in China, and that he flew to the United States in mid-February, allegedly to visit his daughter at a university in California. When Dong landed in California he contacted DIA officials and told them about his plans to defect and the information he’d brought with him. Dong then “hid in plain sight” for about two weeks before disappearing into DIA custody.
According to Spy Talk, Dong’s name came up during the Sino-American Summit held in Alaska in March 2021:
In a tweet on Wednesday, Han [Dr. Han Lianchao, a Chinese defector], 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 and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused.
RedState’s sources say that Chinese officials did demand that the United States return Dong, but Blinken didn’t exactly refuse; at that time Blinken wasn’t aware that Dong was with the US government, the sources say, and told China that the US didn’t have Dong.
It’s only in the last three to four weeks that anyone outside DIA knew about the defector, according to RedState’s sources. Prior to that time, DIA was vetting the information provided and confronting Langley officials with what they’d learned without divulging the source.
Experts quoted in the Spy Talk piece essentially say that the defection is just a rumor and that rumors happen all the time, but that if it’s true it’s a big deal but “not game-changing.” Based on conversations with sources familiar with the information Dong has already provided and its quantity and reliability, that’s simply not the case. Not only does Dong have detailed information about China’s special weapons systems, the Chinese military’s operation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and the Chinese government’s assets and sources within the United States; Dong has extremely embarrassing and damaging information about our intelligence community and government officials in the “terabytes of data” he’s provided to the DIA.
Some of the information provided by Dong was reported on by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this week:
Hundreds of Chinese nationals are the subject of a federal probe after law enforcement officials flagged their travel at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese nationals returned to the United States earlier than expected in January 2020, often having modified their travel plans.
The episode is recounted in an internal report that circulated among various national security and law enforcement agencies on June 3. That report surmises that the Chinese students returned to the United States earlier than expected in order to avoid future travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The team examined 58,000 inbound Chinese F/J visa holders in the [Passenger Name Record] database and identified 396 individuals whose return travel was [scheduled] after January 2020 but had returned in January 2020,” the report reads.
The Free Beacon reports that U.S. intelligence officials haven’t come to a conclusion about whether or not the students being investigated were spies, but RedState is told that whether or not one wants to use the term “spy,” those students were sent back to the United States with specific information-gathering directives with the purpose of helping Beijing understand the US government’s response to the pandemic at a much deeper level than they could through publicly-available documents. Those students (spies) were charged with reporting back on public policy changes, economic response and damage, impacts on the healthcare system (equipment/hospital bed shortages, etc), supply chain impacts (including how long it took things like semiconductors from China to reach the United States), civil unrest, and more.
In addition, Dong has provided DIA with the following information:
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
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
How the Chinese government gained access to a CIA communications system, leading to the death of dozens of Chinese people who were working with the CIA
Dong also has provided DIA with copies of the contents of the hard drive on Hunter Biden’s laptop, showing the information the Chinese government has about Hunter’s pornography problem and about his (and Joe’s) business dealings with Chinese entities. Some of the files on Dong has provided shine a light on just how it was that the sale of Henniges Automotive (and their stealth technology) to Chinese military manufacturer AVIC Auto was approved.
Again, 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.
As we initially reported, DIA has high confidence in the veracity of Dong’s claims. The fact that since our original report, which was pooh-poohed by Langley apologists, 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.”
What an asinine statement.
Did "nothing."
Think about it for a nanosecond.
He is a single person. And, when first elected, a 100% rookie in politics, let alone D.C. national politics.
You expected him by himself to clean the country up?
All the while people across the country, and most specifically in the contested states, elected spineless jellyfish to their state governments.
This isn't one man's fault....Trump.
This is "our" fault for allowing this situation to get to this point.
Don't put this on one man.
He tried, but 99% of the entrenched before be got there power structure was against him from before he got into office. The deck was pre-stacked against the singular man.
This fight is way beyond a single person or a few that they might surround themselves with. There are many (R) controlled states that have systemic work to do if this is to be turned around.
Nice summary!
Great post we should not underestimate Dong,he probably planned his escape for several years.LT. Gen.Scott Berrier is a Trump appointee. Let’s hope he has what it takes to protect the Dongs from the adm. which has probably been trying to take hthem for some time no telling who is winning.
I read other stories that there were “multiple leaks” at Wuhan. Chances are good they were not all by accident.
Great post.
Few know who Trump really is.
He will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we have ever had. He had Pence and others sabotaging him for his first term any time they could. It’s a virtual miracle he got done what he did!! But, it just shows how good he really is.
thanks very much! It may be late in the game since Dong has been here since Feb. but it needs to be said. Keeping him and his daughter alive is job #1.
Your post is to the wrong person... I would NEVER say that... Trump’s a hero... and he did more to drain the swamp than the last 6 Presidents combined...
It could get interesting...
Good point... I suspect Schiff and Nadler are having trouble sleeping. Same with John Kerry and AOC and ‘friends’...
Probably spread throughout the various military intelligence branches by now. It won’t be so easy to bury as you might think.
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I hope you’re right but the powers that be have a way of putting a lid on things they don’t to get out. Underlings value their careers and job security above all else and will ‘bend’ to protect them.
Your right, wow. Not sure how that happened. My apologies!
What an asinine statement.
Did "nothing."
Think about it for a nanosecond.
He is a single person. And, when first elected, a 100% rookie in politics, let alone D.C. national politics.
You expected him by himself to clean the country up?
All the while people across the country, and most specifically in the contested states, elected spineless jellyfish to their state governments.
This isn't one man's fault....Trump.
This is "our" fault for allowing this situation to get to this point.
Don't put this on one man.
He tried, but 99% of the entrenched before be got there power structure was against him from before he got into office. The deck was pre-stacked against the singular man.
This fight is way beyond a single person or a few that they might surround themselves with. There are many (R) controlled states that have systemic work to do if this is to be turned around.
“Q2 - newly reimagined for 2021! Now with authentic-sounding Chinese fables!”
Obvious red herring. (No pun intended).
“..The defector alleges that while the lab leak was an accident..”
If it was an accident that’s only because they hadn’t quite perfected it’s lethality and contagiousness before deliberate release. They were waiting on more money from Fauci.
Our woke intel agencies are the last place defectors should turn to.
Evidently Dong was told that he was max’ed out and not promotable.
When that happens, you find a new place to work.
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