r********1 发帖数: 7345 | 1 A staffer in U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco office was fired a
few years back after being linked to Chinese spying in the Bay Area.
According to a Politico Magazine story on Silicon Valley espionage, the
Feinstein staffer was suspected of providing political intelligence — but
nothing classified — to his handlers, with one former intelligence official
telling author Zach Dorfman that the suspected informant was “run” by
officials based at the local Chinese Consulate.
A local source who knew about the incident confirmed to us that the FBI
showed up at Feinstein’s office in Washington, D.C., about five years ago
to alert the then-chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee that her
driver was being investigated for possible Chinese spying.
“Dianne was mortified,” said our source, who spoke to us only on condition
he not be named.
Besides driving her around when she was in California, the staffer also
served as gofer in her San Francisco office and as a liaison to the Asian
American community, even attending Chinese Consulate functions for the
senator.
According to our source, the intrigue started years earlier when the staffer
took a trip to Asia to visit relatives and was befriended by someone who
continued to stay in touch with him on subsequent visits.
That someone was connected with the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry
of State Security.
“He didn’t even know what was happening — that he was being recruited,”
says our source. “He just thought it was some friend.”
The FBI apparently concluded the driver hadn’t revealed anything of
substance.
“They interviewed him, and Dianne forced him to retire, and that was the
end of it,” says our source.
“None of her staff ever knew what was going on,” the source added. “They
just kept it quiet.” |
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