Posted on 06/22/2017 6:11:42 PM PDT by markomalley
A former State Department employee was arrested Thursday and charged with espionage for allegedly transmitting Top Secret and Secret documents to a Chinese government agent, according to an affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA.
Kevin Mallory, 60, of Leesburg is a self-employed consultant who speaks fluent Chinese. Court filings show that Mallory was an Army veteran who worked as a special agent for U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service from 1987 to 1990. Since then, Mallory has worked for various government agencies and defense contractors, maintaining a Top Secret security clearance. The Washington Post reports that Mallory was also an employee of the CIA.
Mallory faces life in prison under the federal Espionage Act, and could qualify for the death penalty if certain conditions are met.
According to court filings, Mallory traveled to Shanghai in April and was stopped by Customs agents at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after failing to report $16,500 in cash in his carry-on bags. A month later, FBI agents interviewed Mallory – who told them that he met with two people from a Chinese think tank that he now suspects were Chinese intelligence agents.
The suspected operatives gave Mallory a “special communications device” to securely transmit documents, which he claimed was only used to transmit two unclassified “white papers” on U.S. policy matters.
However, when FBI forensics searched the device, they found several other documents which Mallory believed to have been deleted, according to the affidavit. One message from Mallory to the suspected Chinese agent read “your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid.” The Chinese agent’s response was reportedly “my current object is to make sure your security and try to reimburse you.”
Upon further analysis of the device, investigators found four classified documents – three of which were designated as Top Secret. According to the affidavit, Mallory was asked why some of the information at the top and bottom of certain pages was redacted – to which the alleged U.S. spy responded that it was to conceal the “Top Secret” designation so that “Unless read in detail, it appeared like a simple note,” along with an assurance that the information was valuable.
Mallory appeared in court on Thursday wearing a gray tank top and black athletic shorts, and requested a court-appointed attorney. He was ordered held pending a Friday afternoon detention hearing.
He was able to keep his clearance because he had a company which he was an employee of at the time he left State. By hiring himself he could get hired onto various State Department consultancy contracts due to his TS. So his TS not only remained active but was no longer restricted by the SCI of his GS position. In this way he had a much wider range of information to access and was not subject to oversight or supervision. This was likely planned.
Dude is probably a straight-up spy in the vein of Jonathan Pollard. Fry him.
The Chinese were paying him a handsome bonus I'm sure.
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But....but.....I thought Sessions wasn’t doing anything.
Several FReepers keep telling us that multiple times a day
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1) I doubt this was started & completed since Session nominated. Course, Zero and the Deep State prob. sat on it for some time.
2) This is akin to netting minnows in the shallows while the a pod of Humpbacks go on by (Holder, Lerner, Clinton, Zero, etc. etc. etc.). Not saying he shouldn’t be hung here.
But, if you see anything we might have missed, please, point it out. I’d like to see nothing better than Rip Van Winkle doing his JOB.
“top Obama official.”
weird. i never heard of the guy.
Date Sale Price Buyer
09/09/2005 $1,156,000 MALLORY, KEVIN P & MARIAH N R/S
Name MALLORY, KEVIN P & MARIAH N
Care Of
Mailing Address 16621 ELK RUN CT
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. LEESBURG VA 20176-7820
Instrument Number 200509090102167
$300K-$400K annually and as much as they can steal...
Wondering if this part of the “drain the swamp” strategy? Let them keep their federal jobs until they are arrested and executed for treason as hopefully will occur in this case.
“And why haven’t we executed anyone since then?”
“If we executed every treasonous jack ass that deserved it there wouldn’t be any democrats left.
And a thinning of the pubbies as well.”
Sounds good to me...when do we begin??!! :-D
Hillary and the obamamites sold thousands of secrets to our enemies. Why are they not executed for their high crimes?
A small player compared to Hillary and Obama.
You could do a live feed of Mallory and Lonely Bubba to show the state department weenies. The problem is that half the state department would volunteer to trade places!!
Execution would be more of a deterrent.
Very much so. But, I’m sticking with Karma eventually kicking them all in the butt good and hard! ;)
“top Obama official.”
weird. i never heard of the guy
I hadn’t either, but Googled his name and Obamas...and there it was. No surprise.
...well there IS Hillary who probably passed on classified info to just about anybody with bucks.
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