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发帖数: 4796 | 1 尼玛，简直笑死人
都是一群傻老中大妈和索南学生。还居然被当成是职业间谍了。看一看有这么笨的间谍
吗？
真是欲加之罪 何患无辞啊
Were these six Chinese trespassers confused tourists or spies? The FBI wants
to know.
On a Wednesday afternoon in mid-December, a Chinese woman entered the
grounds of President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida
through a service entrance and snapped photos on her cell phone. “Who is
Mar-a-Lago?” she said in court following her arrest.
Eight days later, a Chinese student walked around a perimeter fence at a U.S
. Naval base in Key West, taking pictures of government buildings. Stopped
by police, he said he was trying to capture images of the sunrise.
And nine days after that, two more Chinese students drove past a guard at
the same Naval base. When stopped by security 30 minutes later, they
voluntarily displayed the videos and photos they took of the base.
Were the incidents isolated cases of tourists mistakenly taking photos in
sensitive locations? Or could some or all of the individuals be part of a
spy operation run out of Beijing?
Federal authorities are now working to answer those questions. FBI
counterintelligence agents are investigating whether the spate of incidents
might be part of a coordinated espionage effort, according to a U.S.
official and a person familiar with the matter.
In total, four Chinese men have been arrested for trespassing and taking
photos at the Naval Air Station in Key West since Sept. 2018, and two
Chinese women have been arrested for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago since March
2019.
"Coincidences take a lot of planning," said Frank Figliuzzi, the former FBI
assistant director for counterintelligence.
“These types of brazen and repeated attempts to breach security at two
separate facilities in the same region are highly unusual and worthy of
serious inquiry by our intelligence community," said Figliuzzi, who is an
NBC News analyst.
Figliuzzi said the cases could represent a range of possible scenarios.
"These attempts could be a distraction from some greater targeting, or an
attempt to tie up federal security resources in an area responsible for
securing the president's residence," he said. "This could also be an attempt
to test the Trump administration's ability to react to targeting by one of
our greatest adversaries."
Some China experts said they found the incidents at the military
installation to be particularly suspicious.
“You don’t just saunter onto a base like that, and individual Chinese
students are extremely risk averse to this kind of thing,” said Robert Daly
, director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the
Woodrow Wilson Center.
“All of these people are in the same location, are Chinese, have cameras
and backgrounds that are not those of casual tourists,” Daly added. “I
never thought this could be anything other than a coordinated effort.”
A spokesperson for the FBI in Miami declined to comment citing the ongoing
cases. The Chinese embassy did not respond to a request for comment.
The first Chinese student arrested at the Naval base in Key West was Zhao
Qianli, 20, who was taken into custody on Sept. 26, 2018.
Zhao entered the base by walking along the facility's secure fence line and
trudging through the beach, court documents say.
Zhao headed directly to the Joint Interagency Task Force South property,
according to court records, where he took several photographs on his
Motorola cell phone and Canon EOS digital camera.
His devices contained photos and videos of sensitive equipment at the
facility's "antenna farm," as well as images of warning signs that read "
Military Installation" and "Restricted Area," according to court documents.
Zhao initially told military police he was "lost" and a "dishwasher from New
Jersey." In later conversations with the FBI, Zhao said he traveled to Key
West to "see the sights, such as the Hemingway House," but there were no
images of tourist attractions on his phone, according to his sentencing memo.
Zhao admitted to receiving military training as a university student in
China and was found to have a "police blouse" and People's Republic of China
interior ministry belt buckle at his hotel, the memo says.
He pleaded guilty to one count of photographing defense installations. U.S.
District Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced him to one year in prison.
Zhao’s lawyer Hongwei Shang did not respond to a request for comment. At
his sentencing, Zhao's lawyer argued that his actions were motivated by
stupidity, not spycraft. "He's not a spy," she said, according to the Miami
Herald. "...He committed a stupid mistake. He confessed to it. He just wants
to go home."
The next incident came on March 30, 2019, when Yujing Zhang, 32, tried to
enter Mar-a-Lago carrying a trove of electronics including four cellphones,
a laptop computer, a hard drive and a thumb drive.
Zhang said she purchased a ticket for an event at the club that had
originally been scheduled that Friday night at Mar-a-Lago. There was an
event slated for that night, but it had been canceled in the wake of
scrutiny of another Chinese woman, Cindy Yang, who built a business around
selling access to Mar-a-Lago to wealthy Chinese. In an interview with NBC
News, Yang said she had wanted to portray herself as close to Trump with her
social network but has no connection to the Chinese government.
Trump was reportedly golfing near Mar-a-Lago at the time of Zhang’s arrest.
After her arrest, law enforcement searched her hotel room and reportedly
found nine USB drives, five SIM cards, another cellphone, a radio frequency
device to detect hidden cameras, and over $8,000 in cash.
Zhang pleaded not guilty and acted as her own attorney at trial. She was
convicted of trespassing and served eight months in jail.
Zhang was slated to be deported but her current whereabouts are unknown.
Spokespersons for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not
return a request for comment. Zhang's initial public defender, Robert Adler,
also did not respond to a request for comment.
Lu Jing, 56, was arrested near Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 18, 2019. Trump was not at
the club at the time but was scheduled to be in Florida for the upcoming
holidays.
Jing was initially turned away from the club when she showed up, but she
then walked back through a service entrance and began snapping photos on Mar
-a-Lago property.
A surveillance camera recorded her on the premises, but Jing made it all the
way to a high-end shopping district about 1.5 miles away before she was
stopped by police.
According to a police report, she raised her arms and shouted “No, no, no,
” when an officer approached her on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach after Mar-a-
Lago staff alerted authorities. Police soon discovered she was in the U.S.
on an expired visa.
When the judge ordered her to stay away from Mar-a-Lago during a court
hearing, she asked through a Mandarin translator, “Who is Mar-a-Lago?” She
later testified that she paid $200 for a Chinese guide to drop her off at
several locations and "made a mistake" by entering the president's private
property.
She was found guilty of resisting arrest but was acquitted on a trespassing
charge. A judge sentenced her to six months in jail.
“You don’t start deleting photos and resisting arrest if you’re just a
tourist visiting Palm Beach,” Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave
Aronberg told NBC News.
Jing's public defender did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Lyuyou Liao, 27, a Chinese national who was in the U.S. on a student visa,
was arrested the day after Christmas last year after ignoring warning signs
at the Key West Naval base and taking photos on his cell phone of the “
Truman Annex.”
Federal prosecutors said Liao entered the Naval base’s restricted area by
walking around the perimeter fence and following the rocks along the water
line — nearly the identical route taken by the earlier trespasser Zhao.
When Liao was stopped by military police, he said in broken English that he
was "trying to take photos of the sunrise," according to a federal complaint.
On Friday, Liao pleaded guilty to one count of photographing or sketching
defense installations. He faces up to one year in prison. Liao's attorney,
Daniel Rashbaum, declined to comment on the case.
The most recent incident took place on January 4th at the same naval
facility.
Yuhao Wang and Jielun Zhang, both aged 24 and studying at the University of
Michigan, were charged with entering military, naval or coast guard property
for the purpose of photographing defense installations.
According to a federal complaint, they drove onto the restricted area in a
blue Hyundai sedan after ignoring a guard's instructions to turn around
after neither could provide military identification. They were located by
security 30 minutes later and found to have taken photos on a Nikon camera
and captured videos on their cell phones, the complaint says.
The pair have pleaded not guilty. Their lawyers did not respond to requests
for comment.
Aronberg, the Palm Beach state attorney, said he's been alarmed by the
number of cases of Chinese nationals entering sensitive locations in south
Florida.
“The facts of these cases are bigger than Mar-a-Lago or any one individual,
" Aronberg said. "This is about an overall pattern of activity that raises
questions and concerns involving national security." | S*********e
发帖数: 4 | 2 同一犯罪模式的中国籍傻逼太多了，导致人家这么想也正常
wants
【在 W*****B 的大作中提到】
: 尼玛，简直笑死人
: 都是一群傻老中大妈和索南学生。还居然被当成是职业间谍了。看一看有这么笨的间谍
: 吗？
: 真是欲加之罪 何患无辞啊
: Were these six Chinese trespassers confused tourists or spies? The FBI wants
: to know.
: On a Wednesday afternoon in mid-December, a Chinese woman entered the
: grounds of President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida
: through a service entrance and snapped photos on her cell phone. “Who is
: Mar-a-Lago?” she said in court following her arrest.
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发帖数: 131 | 3 日，FBI才怀疑，傻逼的可以。弯道抄车的口号都喊了多久了。 | C*********e
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wants
【在 W*****B 的大作中提到】
: 尼玛，简直笑死人
: 都是一群傻老中大妈和索南学生。还居然被当成是职业间谍了。看一看有这么笨的间谍
: 吗？
: 真是欲加之罪 何患无辞啊
: Were these six Chinese trespassers confused tourists or spies? The FBI wants
: to know.
: On a Wednesday afternoon in mid-December, a Chinese woman entered the
: grounds of President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida
: through a service entrance and snapped photos on her cell phone. “Who is
: Mar-a-Lago?” she said in court following her arrest.
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