The Department of Justice arrested two sailors in separate cases for spying for the People’s Republic of China. China expects Chinese-born people in America to spy for them if asked.
Jinchaeo Wei
Jinchao Wei, a 22-year-old sailor assigned to the San Diego-based USS Essex, was arrested Wednesday while boarding the ship. Wei is accused of passing detailed information on the weapons systems and aircraft aboard the Essex and other amphibious assault ships that act as small aircraft carriers.
He was born in China. He did it for $10,000 to $15,000.
Wenheng Zhao
The Justice Department also charged sailor Wenheng Zhao, 26, based at Naval Base Ventura County, north of San Diego, with conspiring to collect nearly $15,000 in bribes from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for operational plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific region, which detailed the location and timing of naval force movements, and other information including electrical diagrams and blueprints for a radar system in a base in Okinawa, Japan.
Prosecutors say Zhao, who also went by the name Thomas Zhao, also surreptitiously recorded information that he handed over. If convicted, Zhao could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
U.S. Attorney Grossman said the charges reflect that China “stands apart in terms of the threat that its government poses to the United States. China is unrivaled in its audacity and the range of its maligned efforts to subvert our laws.”
He added that the U.S. will use “every tool in our arsenal to counter the threat and to deter China and those who have violated the rule of law and threaten our national security.”
These two did it for a paltry sum of money. Were they sent here from China, or did they do it for the pittance?
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This is the military that the democrat’s Obamessiah left us. He gutted the leadership and installed liberals faithful only to his excellency. Is this the new American way? Have democrats finally eliminated the constitution?
How about Americans only in our armed forces…
Ever notice the majority of spies are Chinks?
the enemy within, why did we just import 30,000 more of them?
After a career in the high tech industry I found that every Chinese-born person in high tech still has extensive family ties in China. I don’t think they can get out if they don’t. This is called leverage and China uses it to get whatever we want.
And then, the stupid military/government will give citizenship to any alien willing to serve in the military. Well, duh, if they aren’t even citizens where are their allegiances?
A failing Republic run by idiots or traitors.. pick one or both.