{"id":65180,"date":"2016-04-10T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65180"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:38:19","slug":"navy-officer-arrested-for-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65180","title":{"rendered":"Navy officer arrested for espionage UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"

HMC Ret sends us a link from ABC News<\/a> about an unnamed Navy officer who was arrested and placed in pre-trial confinement eight months ago on charges that he spied for a foreign government;<\/p>\n

The unidentified officer is currently assigned to Commander Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, a maritime patrol and reconnaissance unit in Norfolk that provides airborne anti-submarine warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance using P-8A Poseidon aircraft, P-3 Orion aircraft and MQ-4 unmanned aircraft.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Charge sheets presented at an Article 32 hearing were heavily redacted and did not disclose the identity of the Naval officer nor where the alleged acts of espionage occurred.<\/p>\n

According to the charge sheets, the officer has been charged with five counts of espionage and attempted espionage. The documents allege that on “divers occasions” the officer did “with intent or reason to believe it would be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, attempt to communicate SECRET information relating to the national defense to a representative of a foreign government.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bobo sends us a link to the story at Stars & Stripes<\/a> which reports that he’s a Lieutenant Commander – an O-4.<\/p>\n

The officer also is charged with three counts of attempted espionage, three counts of making false official statements, five counts of communicating defense information, prostitution-patronizing, adultery, and multiple violations of a lawful general order and failure to obey a lawful order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Navy and the officer corps in particular is having a rough year.<\/p>\n

Update;<\/strong> Bobo sends us an update to the story, the officer is Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin, a Taiwanese-born naturalized citizen and he was selling secrets to China, according to USNI News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to a 2008 Navy release on a naturalization ceremony at which he spoke, \u201cLin was 14 years old when he and his family left Taiwan. They had to travel halfway around the world, stopping in different countries along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He speaks fluent Mandarin and had been a department head for the Hawaii-based Special Projects Patrol Squadron Two \u2018Wizards\u2019 (VPU-2) that flew EP3-E Aries II signals intelligence aircraft, two sources confirmed to USNI News.<\/p>\n

Lin\u2019s job on the Aries II, which bear a resemblance to the maritime surveillance and anti-submarine warfare P-3 Orion, was to manage the collection of electronic signals from the aircraft \u2013 a central coordinator.<\/p>\n

The specifics of how the U.S. gathers signals from potential adversaries are among the military\u2019s most closely guarded secrets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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