Government Contractor Pleads Guilty To Willful Retention Of National Defense Information
An update to Harold the Hoarder (of classified information) case: (DOJ) Harold Thomas Martin, III, age 54, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charge of willful retention of national defense information. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur; Assistant Attorney General […]
Former Defense Intelligence Officer Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage
An update to the Ron Hansen case: (DOJ) Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, pleaded guilty today in the District of Utah in connection with his attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Sentencing is set for Sept. 24, […]
Former US Air Force Counterintelligence Agent Charged With Espionage on Behalf of Iran
Good grief–a AFOSI Special Agent defected to Iran??? (DOJ) Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, a former U.S. service member and counterintelligence agent, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for conspiracy to deliver and delivering national defense information to representatives of the Iranian government. Witt, who defected to Iran in […]
Pentagon planning to scrutinize recruits with green cards and other foreign ties
(Washington Post) The Pentagon, citing terrorism and espionage fears, is developing a plan to scrutinize prospective recruits with foreign ties, including some US citizens . . . The new vetting is likely to screen thousands of recruits per year who have what the Pentagon considers ‘‘foreign nexus’’ risks, including some Americans who marry a foreign spouse or […]
Worldwide Threat Assessment released; FBI director calls China most ‘concerning’ counterintelligence threat
(The Hill) U.S. intelligence leaders said Tuesday they believe China currently poses the most dangerous and complex counterintelligence threat to the nation. “As I look at the landscape today and over the course of my career … the Chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning […]
Domestic Insider Threat
Disturbing article about a growing domestic, violent Insider Threat: Revealed: ANTIFA Leader Relied on Anonymity to Push Radical, Violent Communist Agenda (Daily Caller) The Daily Caller News Foundation has determined that an influential Antifa leader uses aliases to spread radical and often violent rhetoric while concealing his actual identity. Joseph “Jose” Alcoff works with congressional […]
Defense Intelligence Agency Releases Report on China Military Power
(DIA) The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released China Military Power, a product that examines the core capabilities of China’s military. This volume in DIA’s series of Military Power reports provides details on China’s defense and military goals, strategy, plans, and intentions. It examines the organization, structure and capability of the military supporting those goals, as […]
Kevin Mallory: The churchgoing patriot who spied for China
This article from the BBC gives a good, in-depth look at not only Chinese intelligence operations here in America but also the methods PRC intel officers used to recruit former CIA officer Kevin Mallory to spy for communist China. Especially relevant if you live in Northern Virginia. One of the odd things is that Mallory […]
How a former CIA officer was caught betraying his country
(CBS 60 Minutes) Kevin Mallory was a down on his luck former clandestine case officer for the CIA when he was approached by a man the department of justice believes was a Chinese spy. Officials say Mallory was a prime target for recruitment. He was out of work, three months behind on his mortgage, and […]
China’s Non-Traditional Espionage Against the United States: The Threat and Potential Policy Responses
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on China’s Non-Traditional Espionage Against the United States: The Threat and Potential Policy Responses. You can watch a video of the hearings here. More information about the above graphic of China’s Strategic Goals can be found in John Demers’ statement: Testimony. The following is the statement by the FBI’s […]
Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers
(New York Times) The cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain that collected personal details of roughly 500 million guests was part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering effort that also hacked health insurers and the security clearance files of millions more Americans, according to two people briefed on the investigation. The hackers, they said, are suspected of working on […]
Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal Sensitive Commercial Aviation and Technological Data for Years
(DOJ) Chinese intelligence officers and those working under their direction, which included hackers and co-opted company insiders, conducted or otherwise enabled repeated intrusions into private companies’ computer systems in the United States and abroad for over five years. The conspirators’ ultimate goal was to steal, among other data, intellectual property and confidential business information, including […]
Capitol Hill SSCI Director of Security for 28 Years Pleads Guilty
As a recap, the man who, for 28 years, was the Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which receives our nation’s highest classified secrets, was leaking classified info to his much-younger news reporter lover and other reporters. The fact that he only was charged with one count unfortunately shows the higher […]
How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Supply Chain Threat: The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources in this article. (Bloomberg) In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a […]
Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage Involving Theft of Trade Secrets from Leading U.S. Aviation Companies
Deputy Division Director with the MSS’s Jiangsu State Security Department, Sixth Bureau, Yanjun Xu, aka Qu Hui, aka Zhang Hui “We will not tolerate a nation that reaps what it does not sow.”…… (DOJ) A Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative, Yanjun Xu, aka Qu Hui, aka Zhang Hui, has been arrested and […]
Former NSA Employee Sentenced to Prison for Willful Retention of Classified National Defense Information
Another classified info Hoarder: (DOJ) Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland, and a naturalized U.S. citizen originally of Vietnam, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for willful retention of classified national defense information. According to court documents, Pho removed massive troves of highly […]
U.S. accuses China of ‘super aggressive’ spy campaign on LinkedIn
(Reuters) The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down. William Evanina, the U.S. counterintelligence chief, told Reuters in an interview that intelligence and law enforcement officials have told LinkedIn, […]
Former Defense Contractor Sentenced for Unlawfully Retaining Classified Information
Update on the Wendall Marshall case. As a reminder, he was the guy who downloaded highly sensitive classified information onto a CD, labeled the disc “My Secret TACAMO Stuff” and took the CD home where it sat unprotected for years. See previous post for more info. Former Defense Contractor Sentenced for Unlawfully Retaining Classified Information […]
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