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The US Navy, facing recruiting shortfalls began aggressively targeting foreign nationals in this country, including immigrants who don’t speak English, and people originating from enemy nations. Especially China.
I hate to generalize, but it’s not going well. These cases are from the last few years.
In two separate cases in the Southern and Central Districts of California, two U.S. Navy servicemembers were arrested for transmitting sensitive military information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
A U.S. Navy sailor, Jinchao Wei, aka Patrick Wei, was arrested yesterday on espionage charges as he arrived for work at Naval Base San Diego, the homeport of the Pacific Fleet.
A U.S. Navy servicemember, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, aka Thomas Zhao, 26, of Monterey Park, California, was arrested following an indictment by a federal grand jury, charging him with receiving bribes in exchange for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an individual posing as a maritime economic researcher, but who was actually an intelligence officer from the PRC.
And before that…
Ye Sang “Ivy” Wang, a former U.S. Navy sailor who was a Logistics Specialist First Class assigned to the Naval Special Warfare Command, was sentenced to 30 months in custody and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine for conspiring with her husband and co-defendant, Shaohua “Eric” Wang, to illegally export sensitive military equipment to China for profit.
And
Fan Yang, 34, a naturalized citizen of the United States and Lieutenant in the United States Navy residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Yang Yang, 33, wife of Fan Yang, and a naturalized citizen of the United States residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Ge Songtao, 49, a citizen and resident of the People’s Republic of China; and Zheng Yan, 27, a citizen and resident of the People’s Republic of China.
And
Officials believe Lt Cdr Edward Lin, passed information to a Chinese girlfriend, the New York Times reported, external.
As I said, I hate to generalize, but this keeps happening. And the latest case is particularly bonkers in that it doesn’t even involve China.
A then-U.S. Navy sailor living at Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago’s north suburbs met in October 2022 with someone he thought was an Iranian terrorist to discuss locations for an attack that would cause the maximum amount of carnage, federal investigators say.
Pang, 38, a naturalized U.S. citizen from China who immigrated here in 1998, admitted in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he took surveillance photos and videos of the outside and inside of the base and agreed to provide the undercover operative military uniforms and a phone that could be used as a detonator for an explosive device, court records show.
During their conversation at the Lake Bluff train station, the sailor, Xuanyu Harry Pang, allegedly referenced surveillance photos he’d taken of Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago on a busy afternoon.
“Remember, like you told me, like, you guys are looking for max damage, right?” Pang asked his accomplice, who was actually working undercover for the FBI. “You saw the street. It was packed. So think about it, like, if you have one guy just walking down the street, all of a sudden (rapid firing sound).”
Some may try spinning this as ‘entrapment’, but Pang was apparently already in contact with someone in Latin America.
Why was Pang bent on this beyond money? Who knows. But the bottom line is you don’t embark on something like this if you have any allegiance to the U.S. or the Navy.
The Navy really needs to stop looking for warm bodies and add patriotism as a basic expectation. That clearly was not how it worked under Biden, but it’s a new game now. Recruitment numbers are apparently improving.
And the Navy can do better than people who join for the training, but hate this country.
I’m not trying to cast aspersions on the many Chinese-American members of the military who serve their country, but there is a problem with the recruitment of Chinese Communist nationals who have clearly remained loyal to China and who can’t be trusted in even the lowest positions in the military.
Maybe we could just keep Chinese nationals out of America, period? Put them on the same no fly list with islamopithecines.
Did you know the D.O.D. allows non-citizens to work for defense contractors? Many of their usual job ads that require US citizens to pass extensive background checks for security clearances also include the following:
“Non-citizens are encouraged to apply where Human Resources would help them obtain the necessary exemptions.”
This policy was in effect during before Trump’s first term.
Guess which nationals are the most hired for these positions? HINT: It isn’t India.
I knew about non citizens, AKA spies and saboteurs, being allowed to work in the DOD and probably every other government agency but I didn’t know about the open invitation to get exemptions. I can’t say I’m surprised. Hopefully Hegseth and Trump will rectify this treasonous policy.
I’d like to see all of them interviewed and interrogated by loyal, professional U.S. military professionals, with alligator clips hooked up to their genitals and connected to a polygraph that would immediately deliver a painful electric shock when the AI machine delivered a “False,”
“Evasive,” or “Non-Responsive” reply to the Interrogator’s
Question.
Any objections?
One of if not the most damaging spy operations in the history of the USN was the John Walker spy ring. Walker was a native-born Chief Warrant Officer in the USN whose specialty was communications. During the Viet Nam years he was selling cryptographic info to the Soviets.
Sounds like a Dirtbagocrat in good standing.
I married a Chinese national. I told a recruiter that I would. He told me that I would never hold higher than a secret clearance. No top secret (TS). No Sensitive compartmented information (SCI). He asked me, if I was good with that. I was,
So I show up and on my 1st day and guess what? My roommate was a Chinese national, who had emigrated to the US and had only lived in the US for 10 years. He quit in the 1st 2 weeks once he got a job from an engineering firm in SOCAL.
My spouse hated the idea of a military career. At the time in China, only 2 types of people joined. military brats and peasants.
On another note, officers would have their wives fly to Thailand or Singapore to meet them, when the ship pulled in. This is pre-Facebook. Guess what was violated? That probably still happens
I knew about it at the time. Since I am usually the last one to know, you can bet everyone knew.
W88
Loral Space fax
I am sick of all of it.
“The Navy May Want to Stop Recruiting Chinese Nationals.” Ya think! That goes for the Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, etc. Look at YouTube vid featuring Chinese Nationals in U S Army disparaging America. It is disgraceful. They should be cashiered and probably charged with being a traitor.