EXCLUSIVE: High-Ranking Chinese Defector Has 'Direct Knowledge' of Several Chine

[Ptarmigan]

EXCLUSIVE: High-Ranking Chinese Defector Has 'Direct Knowledge' of Several Chinese Special Weapons Programs
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/06/04/exclusive-high-ranking-chinese-defector-has-direct-knowledge-of-several-chinese-special-weapons-programs-n391238

A person believed to be among the highest-ranking defectors ever to the United States from the People’s Republic of China has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for months, sources inside the intelligence community have told RedState on condition of anonymity. The defector has direct knowledge of special weapons programs in China, including bioweapons programs, those sources say.

The information provided to RedState corroborates and clarifies Thursday evening’s reporting by journalist Adam Housley.

RedState’s sources say that’s partially true. FBI Director Christopher Wray was “ambushed” with the information, they say, and Langley was also unaware. Sources say DIA leadership kept the defector within their Clandestine Services network to prevent Langley and the State Department from accessing the person, whose existence was kept from other agencies because DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies.

This makes you Hmmmmmmmmmm..........

[Zathras]

Honestly I'd be more surprised if China didn't have programs like these in development.

[Eupher]

Honestly I'd be more surprised if China didn't have programs like these in development.

Agreed. The amazing part of this story is that, reportedly, Wray at FBI and whoever the CIA Director this week weren't dialed in. Kinda gives you a perspective of the distrust within the IC toward each other.

Would be interesting in hearing Ric Grenell's take on this story. As Acting DNI, he would have known about potential defectors even though he's been out of the loop for over a year now.

[thundley4]

Does anyone think Joe Xiden's handlers will let this guy escape his own suicide?

[enslaved1]

Agreed. The amazing part of this story is that, reportedly, Wray at FBI and whoever the CIA Director this week weren't dialed in. Kinda gives you a perspective of the distrust within the IC toward each other.

Would be interesting in hearing Ric Grenell's take on this story. As Acting DNI, he would have known about potential defectors even though he's been out of the loop for over a year now.

I think this is the article I heard referenced on the radio last week.  If not, it still references the same reason why DIA kept CIA and FBI out of the loop.

Sources say DIA leadership kept the defector within their Clandestine Services network to prevent Langley and the State Department from accessing the person, whose existence was kept from other agencies because DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies

[Ptarmigan]

BREAKING: Chinese Defector's Identity Confirmed, Was Top Counterintelligence Official
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/06/17/breaking-chinese-defector-confirmed-as-top-counterintelligence-official-n398374

We now know the name of the Chinese defector who has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for a few months and what his position within the Chinese military and government was, among other details.

Matthew Brazil and Jeff Stein at Spy Talk reported on the “rumor,” and gave the name and background of the rumored defector:

Chinese-language anti-communist media and Twitter are abuzz this week with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei (董经纬) defected in mid-February, flying from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang.

Dong is, or was, a longtime official in China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), also known as the Guoanbu. His publicly available background indicates that he was responsible for the Ministry’s counterintelligence efforts in China, i.e., spy-catching, since being promoted to vice minister in April 2018. If the stories are true, Dong would be the highest-level defector in the history of the People’s Republic of China.

RedState’s sources confirmed that the defector is, in fact, Dong, that he was in charge of counterintelligence efforts in China, and that he flew to the United States in mid-February, allegedly to visit his daughter at a university in California. When Dong landed in California he contacted DIA officials and told them about his plans to defect and the information he’d brought with him. Dong then “hid in plain sight” for about two weeks before disappearing into DIA custody.

It is a high level counterintelligence official.