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2 US Navy sailors arrested for allegedly spying for China
abcnews ^ | 08/03/2023

Posted on 08/03/2023 5:48:46 PM PDT by devane617

Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested on charges related to allegedly spying for China, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday.

Both are accused of having passed along national defense information to Chinese intelligence officials in return for cash payments, though their cases are separate.

Jinchao "Patrick" Wei, a 22-year-old petty officer 2nd class, was arrested Wednesday and charged with espionage -- more specifically, conspiracy to and committing the communication of defense information to aid a foreign government.

According to officials, citing the indictment against him, Wei served as a machinist's mate aboard the amphibious ship USS Essex, which is currently receiving maintenance at Naval Base San Diego.

Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, of Monterey Park, California, was also arrested Wednesday, by FBI and NCIS agents, and is charged with conspiracy and receipt of a bribe by a public official, officials said, according to Zhao's indictment.

Zhao, 26, worked at the Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme and had an active U.S. security clearance who had access to classified information, officials said.

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TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: china; invasion; navy
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Navy fyi.
1 posted on 08/03/2023 5:48:46 PM PDT by devane617
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To: devane617

Admiral material under Obama. errr Biden. sorry


2 posted on 08/03/2023 5:52:26 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Biden to call and apologize to China tomorrow.


3 posted on 08/03/2023 5:53:11 PM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: devane617
Wenheng Zhao and Jinchao Wei? Uh huh. Tip of the iceberg.

We should start rounding them up and putting them into interment camps
until they can be shipped back to beloved homeland.

4 posted on 08/03/2023 5:53:24 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: devane617

Were the sailors dressed as balloon?


5 posted on 08/03/2023 5:55:00 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (The B.S. Regime)
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To: devane617

enemy’s all around!!!


6 posted on 08/03/2023 5:56:02 PM PDT by mylife (I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)
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To: devane617

Death penalty, if true. Don’t care how or why.


7 posted on 08/03/2023 6:00:16 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: devane617

At least the weren’t straight white males...


8 posted on 08/03/2023 6:01:57 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

the->they


9 posted on 08/03/2023 6:04:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: devane617

Put ‘em up against the wall.


10 posted on 08/03/2023 6:05:32 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

If the NIS (Naval Investigative Service) or whatever it is called now was worth a damn (because the FBI won’t do it) they would take every single naturalized citizen who came from Communist China and joined the US Navy and do a deep dive on them as a matter of course.

But they won’t.

Some won’t like doing that, and will likely compare it to FDR’s internment of Japanese. They will say it is an infringement on their rights.

I don’t see it that way. These people may or may not be guilty of being agents of the CCP. But this is clearly a problem and a deliberate practice by the Communists.

We have been at war with the Communist Chinese for nearly three decades now, and while they fully realize they are waging war on us and are fully engaged in the process, the United States refuses to see the reality of this.


11 posted on 08/03/2023 6:07:15 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Well that means we gotta roust the entire city of Monterey Park, which up until ‘bout 40 years ago was mostly White with some Mexocants.

When the HK people started arriving in the late 70s - early 80s they came in squadron strength. The joke was “will the last American out of Monterey Park take down the flag”. People in my family among that group....hadda head out. Got too weird. People who had been there since the 30’s.

Somthese little darlings are “first generation”. Real asset, huh? Plus we got the Maoist racist Judy Chu to camp out in our Congress and screech.

Ain’t mass immigration great?


12 posted on 08/03/2023 6:08:19 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: devane617

I assume that any PRC person in the US is a spy.


13 posted on 08/03/2023 6:08:26 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: devane617

Multiply this times thousands. Tens of thousands. All secreted into every facet of our government, education and industry. All committing espionage and emailing the stolen data back the Motherland. Or Xi.


14 posted on 08/03/2023 6:09:27 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: devane617

In short, two chinese nationals joined the US military and the government let them.


15 posted on 08/03/2023 6:16:04 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: NorthMountain

You should, they are. If not doing so of their own free will, its under pressure to.


16 posted on 08/03/2023 6:19:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: devane617

This is the crap that happens when you invite America-hating, foreigners to join the U.S. Military. It’s time to put “the White House” in jail for what he has done to the AMERICAN military.


17 posted on 08/03/2023 6:20:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Yeah, a continuing “fundamental transformation”. Taking control of the military is the final step.


18 posted on 08/03/2023 6:27:40 PM PDT by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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To: rlmorel
would take every single naturalized citizen who came from Communist China and joined the US Navy and do a deep dive on them as a matter of course.

Also the children of these people.

19 posted on 08/03/2023 6:31:59 PM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: devane617
"Our Greatest Strength".


20 posted on 08/03/2023 6:32:52 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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