{"id":79820,"date":"2018-06-05T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79820"},"modified":"2018-06-05T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:52:25","slug":"ron-rockwell-hansen-arrested-for-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79820","title":{"rendered":"Ron Rockwell Hansen arrested for spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/us-army-veteran-tried-to-spy-for-china-officials-say\/ar-AAyerzs?ocid=ientp\">MSN<\/a>, Ron Rockwell Hansen was arrested as a spy for China in Hong Kong on Saturday. Hansen is a former US Army warrant officer and case officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Hansen, 58, a fluent Mandarin speaker who first visited China in 1981, has allegedly received at least $800,000 in \u201cfunds originating from China\u201d since May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Mr. Hansen was arrested in Seattle and charged with attempted espionage, in what appears to be another high-profile mole hunt by F.B.I. investigators intent on uncovering Chinese spying against the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis alleged actions are a betrayal of our nation\u2019s security and the American people and are an affront to his former intelligence community colleagues,\u201d John C. Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement posted on the Justice Department\u2019s website on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Mr. Hansen faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. He is also accused of \u201cacting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, bulk cash smuggling, structuring monetary transactions and smuggling goods from the United States,\u201d the Justice Department said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-44364437\">BBC<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He is alleged to have attempted repeatedly to regain access to classified information after he stopped working for the US government, thereby alerting authorities to his actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Mick and Liberal Civvy for the tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MSN, Ron Rockwell Hansen was arrested as a spy for China in Hong Kong &hellip; <a title=\"Ron Rockwell Hansen arrested for spying for China\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79820\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ron Rockwell Hansen arrested for spying for China<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}