A Defense Department official was charged Wednesday with feeding classified information to an agent for the Chinese government.Well, is that really china, or is that the Taiwan regime....
A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Virginia accuses James Fondren Jr. of conspiring to relay classified information to a foreign agent.
Authorities say Fondren was involved for years in what spy-hunters call a "false flag" operation — believing he was feeding information to one government, when in fact his handler was working for another country.
Court papers charge that Fondren, 62, provided information to a friend named Tai Shen Kuo, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Taiwan who lived primarily in Louisiana.
FBI investigators say that unbeknownst to Fondren, Kuo was taking orders from the Chinese government. Officials say Fondren believed the information was being sent to Taiwan.
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Kuo and a former Defense Department employee, Gregg Bergersen, were arrested in February 2008 on espionage charges. Bergersen and Kuo have both pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the case.
[ cf Pentagon worker charged with leaking info to China ]
And what does it matter that this is from an initial bust back in Feb of 2008.....
