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Chinese Agent Living In Chicago Arrested For Spying On US: Feds
Accusers say he was a Chinese spy tasked with gaining intelligence on potential recruits for a Chinese intelligence service.
By Geoff Dempsey, Patch National Staff | Sep 25, 2018 6:05 pm ET | Updated Sep 25, 2018 8:43 pm ET
CHICAGO, IL — A Chinese national has been arrested on suspicion of spying on the United States for China, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's office. Ji Chaoqun, 27, was living in Chicago while working as an agent for a Chinese intelligence agencies, the government says.
Ji "worked at the direction of a high-level intelligence officer in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security," the press release said. Accusers say his mission was to obtain biographical information on eight people for potential recruitment by the Chinese intelligence agency.
Some of the individuals targeted for recruitment were Chinese nationals working in highly competitive STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — fields in the U.S., including some U.S. defense contractors.
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Ji is charged with one count of "knowingly acting in the United States as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General," the release says.
Ji arrived in the United States in 2013 on an F1 Visa to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Agencies involved in making this accusation and arrest include the U.S. Attorney's Office, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, with the U.S. Army's 902nd Military Intelligence Group having "provided valuable assistance."
In 2016, Ji was allowed to join the U.S. Army Reserves under a program which authorizes enlistment by legal aliens who have a knowledge of topics vital to the national interest. He joined as a specialist. He is alleged to have specifically declined having had contact with a foreign government in the past seven years.
Ji went to court 4 p.m. Tuesday. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
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The rare extradition of one of China's intelligence agents is a major victory for the U.S. government amid strained ties with Beijing.
BY JOSEPH TREVITHICKOCTOBER 10, 2018
In an apparent first-of-its-kind operation, or at least the first to be successful against the Chinese government, U.S. authorities have secured the extradition of a senior member of that country’s top civilian intelligence agency from Belgium after coaxing him there in the first place. Yanjun Xu stands accused of orchestrating the theft of trade secrets, potentially including details on U.S. military-related systems, from American aerospace companies including GE Aviation. The news comes as President Donald Trump and his administration have become increasingly critical of various Chinese activities targeting the United States, including its long-standing economic and military espionageoperations.
- THE WAR ZONE
- BELGIUM
- CHINA
- CYBERSECURITY
- EXTRADITION
- FBI
- GE AVIATION
- INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE
- JET ENGINE
- MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY
- SPIES
- SPYING
- SUPPLY CHAINS
- UNITED STATES
Belgian authorities arrested Xu on April 1, 2018, and the U.S. Department of Justice announced his extradition to the United States on Oct. 10, 2018. The intelligence officer, the deputy division head of the Jiangsu Province office of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), reportedly first began attempting to infiltrate into the American aviation and aerospace sectors in December 2013.
The US military trains their high level officials in the Art of War using Sun Tzu’s book as a reference. On his state visit to USA, Hu Jintao gave George Bush Jr two previous copies of the book with the text woven in silk. Me thinks the subtle message was probably lost on Cowboy Bush.
From Sun Tzu:
4. Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
5. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
6. Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sun-tzu/works/art-of-war/ch13.htm
It’s okay for the whites to spy on each other - Russians spy on US, US spies on Germany, Israelis spy on US, etc - but it is not okay for yellow skinned people to spy on white country?
All’s fair in love and war is an Angmoh proverb for crying out loud!