Larry Wu-Tai Chin is considered one of the most damaging spies in United States (U.S.) history to have compromised national defense information, from 1952 to 1985. Chin’s actions resulted in a serious security breach in the infrastructure of the intelligence community. Chin was convicted of espionage on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. He is one of several spies to have penetrated the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the mid-1980s. Additionally, Chin is known as being the longest operating Chinese-American spy in history.
Larry Wu-Tai Chin was born as Jin Wudai on August 17, 1922, in Beijing, China. Today, the exact reasons behind his name change is still unknown. As a young child, Chin was schooled in the comfort of his own
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State Department to interrogate Chinese prisoners of war captured during the Korean War. While interrogating the Chinese prisoners of war, Chin allegedly gathered all their identifying information and later sold their names to the People’s Republic of China. This identified exactly which prisoners had cooperated with releasing information to the U.S. government and equipped China with a by name list of the prisoners of war, which China later leveraged. Unsuspected of his spying activities, in 1952, Chin was employed on Okinawa with the Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBIS) for the CIA translation foreign broadcasts. Within the following years, Chin received paid vacations, in which he used to return to Hong Kong every other year. According to reports published during the trial, Chin made frequent trips to Hong Kong, which he used to detail U.S. Intelligence needs to Chinese handlers four times between 1952 and 1961. Ou Quiming, professional Chinese intelligence officer, became Chin’s lead contact and suspected handler. Quiming played on Chin’s ego and love of country, using his knowledge of the U.S. And language proficiencies to flatter and for coerce him to work in the best interest of China. Upon successfully passing a polygraph and background test in 1970, Chin was promoted to a FBIS job in California. After his promotion, the Chinese set him up with a courier in Toronto (Stober & Hoffman, 2001; Sulick, …show more content…
citizen and was later promoted to the FBIS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, working as a case officer. During his career in the CIA, Chin held a Top Secret clearance and had direct access to a wide range of highly sensitive intelligence information, including China’s military, political, and economical data. This compartmented information came from the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the State Department. The information also contained multiple reports from intelligence agents abroad and documents confiscated by U.S. spies in China, operating for the CIA. In January 1981, Chin retired from the CIA, and was awarded a medal for his distinguished service to the CIA, intelligence community, and the U.S. of America. Ironically, Chin later received a similar award from the People’s Republic of China for his distinguished service to
Ronald William Pelton, Sold Secret Information About the NSA to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. In doing this act of Espionage Mr. Pelton was caught and sent to Prison for three concurrent sentences and one ten year sentence for the act of Espionage and conspiracy toward the United States.
Born on September 23, 1953, Earl Edwin Pitts was a all-American, clean-cut citizen of the United States. Earl Edwin Pitts is a native of Urbana, Missouri, he has a Bachelors in Science Degree from Central Missouri State University, a Master's Degree from Webster College, and a law degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He served in the Army from 1975 to 1980. As a law school graduate and retired Army Captain (1), Earl Edwin Pitts had dreamed of working for the Federal Bureau of Investigations for two reasons, first to protect the United States and second, as a means of escaping his small town Missouri roots. On September 18, 1983 Earl Edwin Pitts joined the Federal Bureau of Investigations as a Special Agent taking the solemn oath of office and promising to support and defend the Constitution of the United States as well as to protect the secret information accessed during his tenure at the Federal Bureau of Investigations however, less than four years later, a disgruntled and angry Earl Edwin Pitts entered into a conspiracy with the Soviet Union to betray his country. Earl Edwin Pitts was a thirteen year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigations when he was caught selling information to the United States’ largest adversary; nine of those years were as a double agent. (2)
China Men - The Brother in Vietnam & nbsp; In her tale, "The Brother in Vietnam," author Maxine Hong Kingston relates the drastic misinterpretation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" on the part of the "brother's" students. It is clear to the reader that their disillusioned thoughts and ideas of the world were instilled in their vulnerable minds by their own parents at young ages, an occurrence that still takes place in our society today. In his account of the situation, the brother first clearly makes a note that these confused and suspicious students comprise not one of his elementary classes, but rather his only non-remedial class. From this he is evidently implying that one would expect a heightened ability to understand and more accurately analyze the power and beauty of great literature on the part of the students. Thus from the beginning, the reader is alerted to the fact that their confusion the students perceive this Shakespearean tragedy as a horror story, the mere thought of it shadowed in their minds by fear. They see the Montagues and Capulets as families driven mad; Verona as a plague-infested country where killing and marriage take place in dark regions alike. They infer from it that young love is dangerous, and by reading of a suicide made possible by a potion that was initially intended to preserve tender love instead of stealing it, their notions that there is evil in everything seem The brother, frustrated and upset, is unable to "shift the emphasis" that the play has left on these youths, and he feels that he is to blame for "spoil[ing] the love story for a generation of students. " The reader looking on from the outside, however, is able to see that the brother could not have prevented this warped learning no matter how hard he tried. For it seems that the fault lies in the parents of these young people, who were continually planting seeds of suspicion and fear in their children's vulnerable minds. In fact, as we look back on the author's former accounts as a child, it seems that these Chinese parents told their children lies more often than the actual truth. told by her mother that their religion was Chinese. She further remembers her parents having claimed upon the birth of her younger brother, which she had secretly witnessed, that the infant had been miraculously discovered "naked under a pine tree" on Christmas Day. Still perhaps the most disturbing of all is the author's recollection of the war through the eyes of her younger self. Her memories are uncannily realistic and vivid; nevertheless, she was, on more than one occasion, told by her mother that what as a young girl. However, to any reader, it is evident that these are not, and can in no way be mere "scary movie flashbacks." As a result, we are left asking ourselves why any parent would teach their children what they know is untrue. In the case of a war, it is somewhat easier to comprehend the desperation of parents to hold their families together from the tearing claws of battle. And if it will prove to be the only glue that will preserve the family structure, such lying seems more acceptable.
On May 27, 1980, Henry Hill signed an agreement with the United States Department of Justice Organized Crime Strike Force and became an FBI informant. Hill testified in court against his former associates to avoid going to prison for his crimes or getting killed by a mobster. Hill’s testimony led to fifty convictions.
What wins a war? By unlocking that formula one can give weight to the actions of a group or individuals. Things that seem insignificant at the time begin to build and accumulate until it has enough power to even build a nation. The American Revolution, starting in 1775, followed the principles that are necessary to win a war. These principles, or formula pieces, include troop and national morale, the winning of key battles, information on the enemy, and the help and investment of foreign powers. Each of these monumental tasks had to be conquered for the United States to become an independent nation freed from the tyranny of the British Monarchy. But how did the rag tag army without trained leaders, munitions and at many times, basic necessities such as food and shoes accomplish this? The answer is spies. Individual men and women, sometimes groups, who risked everything to secretly obtain information for the aid of a new nation, which, if
During Richard Nixon’s presidency, a major goal of his was to become friendlier with Communist China and become the first president to visit China. In order to accomplish this goal, Nixon requested that his advisor Henry Kissinger visit China to lay the foreground for the President’s trip. On September 27th, 1970, Henry Kissinger and Jean Sainteny were discussing foreign matters in his apartment in Paris, France. Upon discussing Communist China, Kissinger asks Sainteny he could set up a channel with Huang Chen. Sainteny said he would despite not knowing Chinese, he then told Kissinger he would ask an associate who spoke Chinese if they could meet and would write back to Kissinger if it happened.
。Li Xiaobing, Sun Yi, Li Xiaoxiao, Chinese in America: from History to Present, Sichuan People's Press, Sichuan, 2003
Aldrich Ames was one of the most notorious spys in United States history, single handily crippling the United States spy network in the Soviet Union, and compromising hundreds of Intelligence Operations around the world. Ames’ impact on the national security of the United States was devastating and the ramifications of his actions can still be felt today in the Intelligence Community. This paper will provide details into the background and the events surrounding Ames’ espionage and subsequent arrest for treason.
As an American Chinese Maxine Hong Kingston tries to find out what defines her The Search for Human Identity All humans encounter the search for personal identity at some point in life. As an "American Chinese" Maxine Hong Kingston tries to find out what defines her. Let them be her mother’s traditional world, her new American home, or herself as an individual. Undoubtedly, Maxine is strongly interested in the margins between certainty and falsehood, remembrance and tradition, honesty and deceit. As she grows up, she realizes that indeed, part of becoming a young mature woman is figuring out what makes up her own individual.
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John Le Carré’s novel; The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; takes us through the last mission of the British Intelligence officer; Alec Leamas; as he tries to stop the deputy director of the East German Intelligence; Mundt. There are many twists and turns as the truth comes out about the mission and the real reason why Leamas was apart of the mission. Alec Leamas fails to separate his personal beliefs and his emotions from his job as a spy which leads to his downfall.
They served subpoenas for documents that would prove the illegitimacy of Chinese citizenship. The Six Companies, which represented the interests of the community, fought back claiming “the subpoena was being used for the ‘obvious purpose of oppressing and intimidating the entire Chinese American community…” Delivering mass subpoenas proved jurisdictionally unsuccessful. Yet, the INS Chinese Confession Program in 1956 birthed a second opportunity to dispute Chinese legal
Edward Snowden. This is a name that will be in the history books for ages. He will be branded a traitor or a whistleblower, depending on where you look. Many Americans feel that Edward Snowden is a traitor who sold the United States’ secrets, aiming to harm the nation. Others believe that he was simply a citizen of the United States who exercised his right to expose the government for their unconstitutional actions.
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