I’ll never get why people think they can get away with this stuff.
You do it once, with something small. nobody notices.
You do it again… because now they got their hooks in you… that’s when you get caught, but you don’t have a chioce, so you do it anyhow.These kinds of things frequently start small and grow, they don’t get turned into spies overnight.
Plus your lover tells you to do that, and you can’t consult your wife or anybody else. Turns out, your lover has been a honey trap all along.
Some people are getting away with this right now, and we don’t hear about it because we don’t know.
Some people are getting away with it right now, and the only reason we know about it is because it got so bad the FBI couldn’t ignore it anymore
Because a ridiculously small amount of cash is enough for most people to do this sort of shit.
Seeing some of the payouts for these bribes, it is absolutely ridiculously small. Like the one in the article:
According to US officials, Zhao, who was stationed at a naval base north of Los Angeles, received nearly $15,000 from the Chinese intelligence officer between August 2021 and May 2023.
I can’t imagine risking my military career and risk spending time in military prison (much less being a traitor to my country) for the cost of a used 2012 Toyota Camry with 77k miles.
I’m just going to assume the $15,000 was all up front, and all of the spying after that was blackmail after having accepted a bribe.
Cambros.
In some cases, there have been threats against family in those countries IIRC. How credible, etc. is not something I know.
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Before reading th article: these are going to be Chinese ‘expats’. It always is.
In the article:
Wenheng Zhao, 26, and another US sailor, Jinchao Wei
Well…who could have seen this coming.
So it was OK to intern all Japanese-americans during WWII based on their heritage? Can I use this logic today to decide things? I don’t think so.
Lol what an Internet argument thing to say. Is that what you heard me say when you read that? That I wanted to throw people into internment camps and that I think what Americans did to the Japanese was okay?
That was your takeaway from my comment?
That I wanted to throw people into internment camps
I did not remotely say that.
and that I think what Americans did to the Japanese was okay?
Which is closer to what I was asking.
You lead with the assumption that they are “Chinese ‘expats’”. I don’t even know what your quotes on expats are doing there. Your later response was listing names and stating “Well…who could have seen this coming.”. To me, that just reads as you saying that Americans with Chinese-sounding names can’t be trusted. If that is indeed your position, I think it’s an awful, racist one.
If the country you’re spying for knows who you are you’ve already fucked up.
Use a dead drop, at least you’ll continue to get paid instead of blackmailed.
