(1/2) The FBI told me 5 years ago it had concerns that China was seeking to recruit an administrative member of my Calif staff (despite no access to sensitive information). I took those concerns seriously, learned the facts and made sure the employee left my office immediately. pic.twitter.com/qpVyPanpJk— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) August 4, 2018
Politico: How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies
The West Coast is a growing target of foreign espionage. And it’s not ready to fight back.
SAN FRANCISCO—In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling—and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most destructive to hit the region in more than 80 years, felled entire apartment buildings. Freeway overpasses shuddered and collapsed, swallowing cars like a sandpit. Sixty-three people were killed and thousands injured. And local Soviet spies, just like many other denizens of the Bay Area, applied for their share of the nearly $3.5 billion in relief funds allocated by President George H.W. Bush.
FBI counterintelligence saw an opening, recalled Rick Smith, who worked on the Bureau’s San Francisco-based Soviet squad from 1972 to 1992. When they discovered that a known Soviet spy, operating under diplomatic cover, had filed a claim, Smith and several other bureau officials posed as federal employees disbursing relief funds to meet with the spy. The goal was to compromise him with repeated payments, then to turn him. “We can offer your full claim,” Smith told the man. “Come meet us again.” He agreed.
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WNU Editor: Senator Feinstein and her allies coupled with the media are downplaying this story. But this is a huge intelligence coup for the Chinese because this man was her chauffeur for 20 years!!!! But the story does not end there. What I do not understand is why is the media not publishing this Chinese spy’s name, where does he live now, or even why did the media choose to not expose this story 5 years ago. I also find it interesting that the FBI made the decision to tell US Senator Feinstein that she had a spy on her staff, but they made the decision to not inform candidate Trump in 2016 that he may have Russian spies on his staff. So why the double standard? I suspect that there is more to this story, and I do expect answers to come out in the weeks (if the media reports it).
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