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Suspected Chinese Communist Party's Infiltration of DOJ and CIA Exposed in Light of Guo Prosecution
By Sponsor: Token Team | Wednesday, 24 May 2023 08:00 AM EDT
By Matt Palumbo
Chinese espionage poses a significant and growing threat to the United States, encompassing various activities aimed at obtaining classified information, intellectual property, and technological advancements. This threat is multifaceted and encompasses both traditional espionage methods and emerging cyber espionage techniques.
The media often focuses on the economic threat that CCP espionage faces, primarily through IP theft, which costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars per year. But the consequences of Chinese espionage for the United States are more far-reaching than that, as the CCP has already infiltrated America’s intelligence apparatus.
Just scrolling through the headlines in the past few years reveals countless cases of FBI and CIA employees being arrested for helping the CCP.
Consider just the following cases
- August 2, 2016: FBI employee pleads guilty to acting as agent of China. He admitted that on several occasions he passed on sensitive information to China.
- January 20, 2017: Former FBI employee sentenced to 24 months in prison for providing sensitive information to China.
- May 17, 2019: Former CIA officer sentenced to 20 years and then 5 years supervised release for
- July 10, 2019: Former State Department employee is sentenced to 40 months in prison for concealing her interactions with two Chinese intelligence agents.
- August 17, 2020: Former CIA and FBI official charged with selling classified U.S. secrets to China.
- July 07, 2022: A federal grand jury indicts a current U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent and a former agent in connection with an alleged Chinese government-sponsored scheme to target the CCP’s critics.
- November 22, 2019: Former CIA officer sentenced to 19 years for conspiring to deliver classified information to China
Wow, I wonder who else besides Joe Biden they had to bribe.