Spy Inside State Department Betrayed Chinese Dissident, Says FBI
By Paul Huang | March 31, 2017 AT 5:46 PM Last Updated: March 31, 2017 9:28 pm
Chinese lawyer and human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is pictured visiting the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan on June 25, 2013. (Ashley Pon/Getty Images)
A senior State Department staff member who worked in the U.S. embassy in Beijing might have betrayed information concerning a Chinese dissident who sought asylum there in 2012, according to a FBI investigation. While the dissident in question has not been publicly named, the timing and location revealed by the investigators suggest that it almost certainly concerns the case of Chen Guangchen, a Chinese human rights lawyer who gained international attention in 2012 for escaping house arrest and making his way to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
According to a Department of Justice release, Candace Marie Claiborne, who worked in the Caucasus Affairs office of the State Department and had served multiple tours of duty in the U.S. embassy in Beijing was arrested on Tuesday and charged with two felony offenses for obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to FBI investigators.
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Serious, surprised one didn't hear about this.
