Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Espionage for China
(DOJ) A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer pleaded guilty today to conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director for Counterintelligence John Brown of […]
Former State Department Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with Foreign Agents
(DOJ) Defendant Admitted Receiving Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Benefits From Two Chinese Agents in Exchange for Internal State Department Documents Candace Marie Claiborne, a former employee of the U.S. Department of State, pleaded guilty today to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, by: lying to law enforcement and background investigators, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jury Convicts Former CIA Officer of Espionage
(DOJ) Today, a federal jury convicted Kevin Patrick Mallory, 61, a former Central Intelligence Agency case officer of Leesburg, Virginia, on espionage charges related to his transmission of classified documents to an agent of the People’s Republic of China. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern […]
Longtime Director of Security for the SSCI indicted for lying to the Govt about leaking to the press
Jim Wolfe was the Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI – pronounced “sissy” in the govt) for 29 years. The SSCI oversees all intelligence activities and programs of the US Intelligence Community. The press release states, Wolfe was entrusted with access to classified SECRET and TOP SECRET information provided by […]
Ron Hansen, retired Army/former DIA, arrested for attempted espionage for China
Another spy named Hansen: (DOJ) Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, was arrested Saturday afternoon on federal charges including the attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. The FBI agents took Hansen into custody while he was on his way […]
CIA Contractor illegally retained classified materials, as did a bunch of senior officials
He did the same thing former CIA Directors Petraeus and Deutch did, and Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor did, and of course, what HRC did. But this guy is just a low level shmuck. Former CIA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Illegally Retaining Classified Materials (DOJ) Reynaldo B. Regis, 53, of Fort Washington, Maryland, and a […]
Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying for China
(DOJ) Former CIA Case Officer Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Espionage and Retention of National Defense Information The Justice Department announced today that Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, of Hong Kong, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Virginia with: One count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national […]
The Many Security Problems of John Weed
Count them. From the affidavit: “civilian supervisors at TASC, his military supervisors at the NRO, and his military and civilian coworkers-was that WEED felt the rules did not apply to him.” What can I say, another person who really needed to be DICE’d. FBI raids home of fired spy agency contractor suspected of leaking code on […]
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