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According to the affidavit, Mallory traveled to Shanghai in April, and was interviewed by Customs agents at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after he failed to declare $16,500 in cash found in two carry-on bags.The FBI interviewed him the next month, and he admitted that he met with two people from a Chinese think tank, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, that he now believed were Chinese intelligence agents. He said they had given him a special communications device for transmitting documents.According to the affidavit, Mallory told the FBI agents that the only documents he transferred were two unclassified “white papers” he had written on U.S. policy matters, for which he said he was paid $25,000.But FBI agents searched the device and found other documents and messages that Mallory thought had been deleted, according to the affidavit. In one message, Mallory wrote to the suspected Chinese agent, “your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid.”The agent responded, “my current object is to make sure your security and to try to reimburse you.”According to the affidavit, the Chinese officers were encouraging Mallory to resume working for the government so that he could obtain “a position of access.”An analysis of the documents on the device found four classified documents, including three with a Top Secret classification.
The AP story has some good details:
But FBI agents searched the device and found other documents and messages that Mallory thought had been deleted, according to the affidavit.
Deleted is not deleted. I can pull deleted files off of a fat32 or NTFS formatted drive so easily it would make your head spin... It's not even very technical.It makes me laugh every time I see these idiots getting caught by way of such monumental ignorance.
I do like the honesty of the Chinese agent.“my current object is to make sure your security and to try to reimburse you.”
It's amazing what even the free recovery software will find on a supposedly empty drive. Deleted is most definitely not deleted; more like misplaced.
