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DOJ: US Navy sailor sold military secrets to China for $12,000
KTVU ^ | August 23, 2025 | By Austin Williams

Posted on 08/23/2025 5:00:31 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Petty Officer Jinchao "Patrick" Wei, 25, was convicted of six federal charges including espionage. Prosecutors say he passed sensitive Navy ship information to a Chinese intelligence officer for $12,000. Wei is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1 and faces a lengthy prison term.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chicoms; espionage; infiltration; jinchaowei; naturalizedcitizen; patrickwei; spies; spooks; wei
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Prosecutors said Wei:

Sent photos and videos of the USS Essex

Provided ship movement information and weapons details

Shared technical manuals and restricted documents from Navy systems


Keel haul the bugger

1 posted on 08/23/2025 5:00:31 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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2 posted on 08/23/2025 5:05:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: artichokegrower

Pretty low price.

I hope that means they caught him in the early phases of his involvement with the Chinese, and that what he gave them was fairly low-level, with higher-level stuff still to come.


3 posted on 08/23/2025 5:06:37 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: artichokegrower

Hang him from the tall mast.


4 posted on 08/23/2025 5:06:47 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: artichokegrower

Shut off ALL Chinese immigration for good


5 posted on 08/23/2025 5:08:04 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: artichokegrower

That’s only $600/yr that he got for the sentence that he might get.


6 posted on 08/23/2025 5:08:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: Eli Kopter

And then no more “naturalized” chinese in any branch of the service.
China is an enemy right now. Arseholes have forgotten we helped them out quite a few times. They’re lucky the Japs aren’t their masters right now.


7 posted on 08/23/2025 5:12:48 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: artichokegrower

Couldn’t hold out for 12,500? Against China?

That’s a real “art of the deal man” there! lol Trump should send an autographed copy to him in Leavenworth.


8 posted on 08/23/2025 5:15:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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Why not execute him publicly? Pour encourager les autres.....


9 posted on 08/23/2025 5:17:26 PM PDT by zoomie92 (Reality check)
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To: artichokegrower

“ Wei, a China-born naturalized U.S. citizen, enlisted in the Navy and was stationed at Naval Base San Diego. Prosecutors”

Well, some group within the organization vetted this twerp


10 posted on 08/23/2025 5:20:18 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: zoomie92

Keel haul in shark infested waters.


11 posted on 08/23/2025 5:22:32 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Steely Tom

> Pretty low price. <

I suspect that his spied because of his devotion to Communist China. The money was just to cover expenses.

If I’m right, then cut him some slack. Give him a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book. Then throw him into some pit at the worst federal prison possible.


12 posted on 08/23/2025 5:43:20 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: artichokegrower

Was not his to sell. He is a thief and a traitor.

Sell him to a prison in Turkey.


13 posted on 08/23/2025 5:46:03 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: artichokegrower

One Treasonist
One firing squad
Problem solved


14 posted on 08/23/2025 5:46:55 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Steely Tom

The most damaging espionage against the United States has always been the “true believers” who don’t even do it for money. I think it was Aldrich Ames or that Walker guy, or somebody like that.

They should charge the guy, court martial, and execute sailors on a friday morning guilty of that. Should only take a few weeks. Then cut everybody loose for a 3 day weekend.


15 posted on 08/23/2025 6:42:08 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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Hiring foreign scumbags from China for the military really wasn’t a good idea. They never would have done that 20 years ago. Those are the bad guys.


16 posted on 08/23/2025 6:57:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialist communism, but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Steely Tom

The really high-level stuff has been flowing to the chicoms for many years...

Just check the roster at places like Los Alamos (NM) and the three Sandia Laboratories (located at Lawrence Livermore in Livermore, at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, and the test facility in Waimea, Kauaʻi, Hawaii) to get really surprised...

The infestation of chicom spies has been supported by the communists who occupied the WH in 1957-1960, 1993-2000, 2009-2016, and 2021-2024...


17 posted on 08/23/2025 7:10:19 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: artichokegrower

His defense should be: “I am Hillary Clinton.” Or for the china secret selling “Also, I am Bill Clinton.”


18 posted on 08/23/2025 7:13:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

The Essex was my last ship.

Hang him for $12.00 of rope.


19 posted on 08/23/2025 7:47:21 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Freedom4US

Ames did it for the money. I recently read a book about him. He and his wife were both greedy bastards.


20 posted on 08/23/2025 8:46:24 PM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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