Smith, who often went to her house with classified information in his briefcase, gave Leung the chance to secretly copy many of the classified documents after their trysts and pass them on to her MSS handler Mao Guohua. Smith and Bill Cleveland Jr., both of whom battled Chinese spies in San Francisco. counterintelligence community, Leung was the asset and lover of FBI special agents J.J. For more than two decades, Leung acted as a double agent for the FBI and the Ministry of State Security (MSS), China’s spy service and the intelligence branch of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Leung rose to prominence in the Chinese American community in southern California thanks to the $1.7 million in payment that she received from the FBI. A massive, four-year investigation took place to find out how China acquired the design, which sadly involved the wrongful accusation and unjust treatment of Taiwanese American scientist Wen Ho Lee and at least one loyal and innocent female FBI agent of Chinese descent.Īnother thread of Wise’s account centers on Katrina Leung, using the code name PARLOR MAID. It is so small that several can fit on one missile. counterintelligence.Īccording to Wise, over the past thirty years, China has acquired a great deal of information regarding the nuclear warhead W-88, America’s most advanced and sophisticated missile. nuclear weapons data housed at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and 2) penetrating U.S. since WWII has been mainly focused on two areas, which constitute the two major threads of Wise’s account: 1) stealing U.S. Generally speaking, Chinese espionage against the U.S. Beijing tends to make the moral appeal largely to Americans who are Chinese immigrants or are of Chinese descent, indicating that they are “helping China modernize” by revealing U.S. Instead, Beijing recruits people who are psychologically and emotionally healthy without alcohol or drug problems. Beijing, by contrast, believes that people with such incentives are emotionally volatile and potentially unstable. tended to recruit Russian spies who had retaliatory motives against their home country. In dealing with the former Russian KGB, the U.S. In addition to general approach, China targets different people for spying from the U.S. And they would end up knowing more about the sand than anyone else” (10-11). When they returned, they would be asked to shake out their towels. The Chinese would send in a thousand tourists, each assigned to collect a single grain of sand. The US would target the beach with satellites and produce reams of data. “If a beach was an espionage target, the Russians would send in a sub, frogmen would steal a shore in the dark of night and with great secrecy collect several buckets of sand and take them back to Moscow. Wise quotes former senior China analyst for the FBI Paul Moore’s analogy: China, a nation that has been in the espionage business for over two thousand years, is very patient in its overall approach. In laying the groundwork for cases of Chinese espionage, Wise details the ways in which China spies differently from other countries such as Russia. To probe into the publicly known and unknown aspects of Chinese espionage, seasoned investigative journalist David Wise delved into affidavits, government documents, and interviews he was able to secure with more than 150 people, which culminated in the writing of Tiger Trap. To date, much less is known about Chinese spy activities than those of the former Soviet Union. was focusing its intelligence efforts against the former Soviet Union, China was quietly penetrating the highest levels of U.S. “There are no walls which completely block the wind,” so goes an ancient Chinese saying. However, there is one other section that I might visit first if it’s closer, and that’s non-fiction history.Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China These days, I’m more likely to get an adult SFF book, unless there are YAs on special that look interesting as my interests have been changing for a few years, but habit is hard to break! Nana tried to teach me once but it didn’t go very well (and it couldn’t keep my interest.) Therefore, I can’t promise that I know what all the prompt terms mean! ( Emma’s post is VERY good at explaining what it all means – check it out if you’re as clueless as I!)Ĭast-On The first section you scope out in a bookshopįor me, it’s either sci-fi and fantasy or young adult (which is usually next to children), depending on which is closer. I was tagged by Emma ( Turn Another Page) and this was created by Cara ( Wilde Book Garden) on Youtube.
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