Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China And Recruiting Others, Senat

[mountaineer]

Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China And Recruiting Others, Senate Report Finds
Luke Rosiak
Investigative Reporter
November 19, 2019 10:59 PM ET

*Foreign-born researchers working for U.S. agencies were secretly on China’s payroll, signing side agreements to send sensitive research to that country as part of a recruitment operation called the Thousand Talents Plan, a Senate report found.
*10,000 Chinese nationals in 2018 conducted research in the Department of Energy’s National Labs, and one even had colleagues write him letters of recommendation to the Communist Party-run recruitment program, the bipartisan report stated.
*Agencies like NIH do not even track attempted foreign influence, the Department of State denies only 5% of suspicious visas, and the FBI shut down a key program, according to the report. 

Foreign-born researchers working at U.S. agencies secretly joined China’s payroll, sending sensitive U.S.-funded research to the country while U.S. government agencies took almost no defensive measures against a major recruitment operation, a Senate investigation found.

Researchers linked to the Chinese government formed a Chinese cell within the Department of Energy, attained access to American genomic data, and recruited other U.S. researchers to join, the bipartisan report stated. ...

Story at Daily Caller

[mountaineer]

The author summarized in a couple of tweets:

Luke Rosiak  @lukerosiak

Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China And Recruiting Others, Senate Report Finds
They accessed US genomic data, absconded with plans for the F-35, and signed US work over to the Communist Party.
 https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/19/china-thousand-talents-fbi-nih-energy/

10:01 AM · Nov 20, 2019
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There are 35,000 foreigners working at Energy Dept, 10,000 from China.

Some joined China's payroll after getting their jobs, brought over other Chinese agents, and set up a cell inside DOE (which does nukes) that was "insular," beholden to China, and didn't speak English.

[skeeter]

The same kind of bureaucrats & politicians who allow this ridiculousness to go unchecked for years were on display in congress & in the media this week, hollering about how Trump 'compromised national security' by asking Ukraine to investigate US linked Ukrainian corruption.

Can't make it up.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

It is no secret that China lacks the capacity of rendering its own innovation compared to Western cultures.

Instead, it copies.

[Bigun]

The same kind of bureaucrats & politicians who allow this ridiculousness to go unchecked for years were on display in congress & in the media this week, hollering about how Trump 'compromised national security' by asking Ukraine to investigate US linked Ukrainian corruption.

Can't make it up.

    

[dfwgator]

Those foreigners also inhabit the State Department,  how many of those witnesses this week weren't born in the US?

[Bigun]

Those foreigners also inhabit the State Department,  how many of those witnesses this week weren't born in the US?

  Neither of yesterday's were.

Fiona Hill (born October 1965) is a British-born American foreign affairs specialist. She is a former official at the National Security Council specializing in Soviet, Russian and European affairs.

Hill worked in the research department at the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1991 to 1999, and at the National Intelligence Council as a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia from 2006 to 2009. In 2017, she took a leave of absence from the Brookings Institution, where she was director for the Center on the United States and Europe, while serving on the National Security Council. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of trustees of the Eurasia Foundation.

As of 2017, Hill was the Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council. In this role, she was the lead interagency coordinator for U.S. foreign policy relating to Europe and Russia

Hill served as an intelligence officer under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006 to 2009. She was appointed in April 2017 by Donald Trump as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on his National Security Council staff.

Hill decided to step down from her position in August 2019.[4] Hill was replaced by Tim Morrison, a position from which he later resigned on October 31, 2019.

On October 14, 2019, responding to a subpoena, Hill testified in a closed-door session for ten hours before special committees of the United States Congress, as part of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Hill...dential_advisor)

David Holmes joined the United States Foreign Service in 2002. He served in several international assignments, including Kosovo, Bogota, Kabul and New Delhi. On his return to the U.S., Holmes served in Washington, D.C. from 2010 to 2011 as special assistant for South and Central Asia to then Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Joseph Burns. He was later detailed, from 2011 to 2012, to the United States National Security Council staff at the White House as director for Afghanistan. He then became the senior energy officer at the United States Embassy in Moscow, and then Deputy and Internal Unit Chief in the Political Section.

In 2014, the American Foreign Service Association awarded the William R. Rivkin Award for Constructive Dissent to Holmes. The award recognizes "demonstrations of intellectual courage to challenge the system from within."[3] He reflected on his work on Afghanistan and South Asia when he filed a formal Dissent Channel message in February 2013, arguing that multiple channels of authority within the State Department covering similar territory "hindered our diplomatic effectiveness."

U.S. Embassy in Ukraine

Holmes is currently serving as a Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine formerly under U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and later William B. Taylor Jr., who was appointed to the role of chargé d'affaires for Ukraine under the Trump administration. The focus of Holmes' role is to help "Ukraine consolidate its democracy, reinforce the rule of law, advance justice and anti-corruption reforms, bolster civil society, and promote a responsive, responsible government."

Holmes was called to testify in a closed deposition as part of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, and did so on November 15, 2019. Holmes testified that he overheard EU ambassador Gordon Sondland speaking to Trump via cellphone in a Kyiv restaurant, hearing Trump ask, "so, he's gonna do the investigation?" to which Sondland replied, "he's gonna do it", adding Zelensky would do "anything you ask him to". Holmes also testified that Sondland later told him that Trump "did not give a s—t about Ukraine" and "only cared about the big stuff ... the big stuff that benefits the president like the Biden investigation that Mr. Giuliani was pushing." He also recalled that Sondland characterized Zelensky's feelings toward Trump by telling the latter that Zelensky "loves your ass." He also said that there were two other state department witnesses to this as well, and has now become a prominent witness of the ongoing impeachment inquiry and the Trump–Ukraine scandal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Holmes_(diplomat)

[dfwgator]

Neither of yesterday's were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Hill...dential_advisor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Holmes_(diplomat)

Madness!

[Bigun]

Madness!

  No doubt about it @mountaineer. The Democrats are willing to burn it all down if they can't run it.

[mountaineer]

More tidbits from the original story:

...  As China announced its plans and reportedly recruited 7,000 researchers in countries other than China, virtually every U.S. government agency made missteps, with some taking almost no actions to prevent the infiltration, the report stated.  ...

Meanwhile, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) permitted access to genomic data to companies linked to the Chinese government, without considering “national security risks, such as weaponizing for biological warfare,” the investigation found. Nor did it consider “whether the [principal investigator] is in a foreign country that is on a United States Government watch list,” it stated. ...

[sneakypete]

BOY,OH BOY!

THERE is a shock! A SHOCK,AH TELL YA?

Hooda thunk it?

[sneakypete]

It is no secret that China lacks the capacity of rendering its own innovation compared to Western cultures.

Instead, it copies.

@IsailedawayfromFR

Hell,after all these years they STILL have to rely on Soviet engineering for all their military equipment.

That is the result of thousands of years of treating citizens with original thoughts as speed bumps needing to be be flattened.

[sneakypete]

Those foreigners also inhabit the State Department,  how many of those witnesses this week weren't born in the US?

@dfwgator

When it comes to the State Dept,it doesn't matter. They consider themselves to be "citizens of the world",not mere "US citizens".

[bigheadfred]

More tidbits from the original story:

Meanwhile, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) permitted access to genomic data to companies linked to the Chinese government, without considering “national security risks, such as weaponizing for biological warfare

I pointed this out on a different thread. I'll say it or ask it again.

Where do most of the world threatening pandemic "flu" bugs originate? Include SARS? Swine flu. Avian flu.

Specific genomic data, supplied by everyone who gives their DNA to "Ancestry" type sites, are, IMO, taking a huge risk. I presented articles and links that certain sites are selling your DNA. Mostly on the robot thread.

The Chinese have no problem wiping out MILLIONS for their own for ideological reasons. You think they wouldn't wipe out millions more to achieve world dominanace with biological experimentation?

The Chinese believe they can "win" a nuclear holocaust by sheer population numbers alone.

And as @sneakypete pointed out. They are VERY racist.

[bigheadfred]

I am going to tell you all something else. Something that IS a BIG deal.

@Quix posts links, articles, videos that are a clarion call to this BULLSHIT.

Maybe, just MAYBE, you SHOULD pay the eff attention.

[Quix]

THANKS BIG for your kind alert.

It is shocking how many seem determined to keep their heads buried in the sand with their naked butt's sticking out in the way of the fast freight train barrelling down on them. Incredible.

So glad U are awake & willing to stand up for truth & restoring our Republic, way of life, etc.

[Quix]

My desktop stopped booting up for some mysterious reason. HP tech support no help. So at considerable $$$ will ship it back to HP for service.

Am using a not as robust laptop so not sure how much I'll be able to post. This is also a busy week after the pottery charity sale week. Wheee.

Anyway--thanks for the caring & prayers. Rather needful at this time.