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Mysterious Bank Deposits

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:14:50 +0000

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Mysterious Bank Deposits Fueled Suspicion of Former C.I.A. Officer

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 24

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53,
is awaiting transfer to federal court
in Northern Virginia,
where he was charged.

WASHINGTON — While American intelligence authorities investigated a possible C.I.A. mole in recent years, they discovered that one former agency officer had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexplained bank deposits, current and former government officials said on Wednesday.

The money deepens the mystery surrounding Jerry Chun Shing Lee, the former C.I.A. officer, who faces a charge of keeping national security secrets in his notebooks after he left government. It helps explain why many American law enforcement officials suspected that Mr. Lee had provided information to China — a suspicion for which no direct evidence has surfaced [.....]

Answer to my own question:

artappraiser — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 08:10:35 +0000

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Answer to my own question: Christie's, director of security @ Hong Kong:

FBI created job for suspected spy Jerry Lee to lure him to U.S.

by Tracy Connor and Pete Williams @ NBCNews.com, Jan. 17

[....] His most recent job was director of security for Christie's in Hong Kong. The auction house said he worked there for 20 months directing physical security for the auction house with no role in data security or IT. Christie's said it had suspended Lee "pending a criminal investigation" and declined additional comment [....]

Oh right, should I repost

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:04:51 +0000

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Oh right, should I repost this on the "racist"/"immigration" ltastes great"/"less filling" thread?

yeah well massive immigration

artappraiser — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 04:52:49 +0000

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yeah well massive immigration, assimilation, change: a real bitch as you've probably heard!

Edit to add: me & a couple pals are going crazy trying to figure out what auction house the spook was working for in Hong Kong (articles say "since 2007") They've somehow managed to keep it out of the news reports. All the hot action is there in Hong Kong; it is where the big houses are putting all their resources, expanding, having lots of sales, while cutting down the schedules in the U.S. So if anyone sees who he was working for mentioned, would love a link.

Not quite related, but

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 04:08:20 +0000

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Not quite related, but Cantonese quickly dying in Hong Kong. With it will go the British influence and the different rights & judicial thinking. A lot going on in the background these days.

WaPo's coverage:

artappraiser — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:24:12 +0000

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WaPo's coverage:

Ex-CIA officer charged with taking notebooks full of classified information

Background from May 2017:

artappraiser — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:06:22 +0000

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Background from May 2017:

Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations

By Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt, and Matt Apuzzo @ NYTimes.com,

MAY 20, 2017

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The NYT also has the complaint and arrest warrant available with today's article as an on-site PDF

Read the Case Against Jerry Chun Shing Lee

JAN. 16, 2018

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a former C.I.A. officer, is suspected of identifying agency informants to the Chinese government, helping to cripple the United States's intelligence operations in China. Read the affidavit supporting charges against him.

But you can also get it at Document Cloud without going to the NYT site:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4351679/Read-the-Case-Against-Jerry-Chun-Shing-Lee.pdf