Note:
(a) In June 2017 FBI executed a search warrant: "FBI agents searched [Kevin] Mallory's house * * * his yard and, according to neighbours, a bridle path where he used to go on runs. * * * [in] Raspberry Falls, a Leesburg subdivision * * * One year later Mallory, 61, was found guilty of espionage. In a real-life episode of The Americans, a TV spy drama that takes place in northern Virginia, Mallory had lived a double life * * * Today he faces life in prison - and he is now awaiting sentencing. * * * [Also on the bank of Potomac River, Leesburg is] located 40 miles from [and northwest of] Washington"
(i)
(A) The English surname Mallory (of Norman origin) meant "an unfortunate person, from Old French malheure unhappy, unlucky."
(B) English dictionary:
* mal (prefix; Old French mal- from the Latin adverb male [badly], from [adjective masculine] malus [bad]) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mal
(ii)
(A) bridle path https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridle_path
(B) bridleway (n; also bridle path): "British [definition]" https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bridleway
(iii) Raspberry Falls, a Leesburg subdivision
(A) Leesburg, Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leesburg,_Virginia
(a town and county seat of Loudoun County; section 1 Etymology: named to honor Thomas Lee [c 1690–1750] )
(B) Both from Lee Family of Virginia, Thomas Lee was the elder brother of general Robert E Lee's great grandfather.
(b) "Last month US Assistant Attorney General John Demers testified before Congress about China's 'covert efforts to influence the American public.' "
See (ef below. 作者: choi 时间: 1-22-2019 17:39
(c) "The Chinese officials bought access to a Leesburg station, WCRW 1190 AM, through a subsidiary company. The 50,000-watt station used to be housed in a low-slung building with plate-glass windows, but the place was sold to a family several years ago. Under a new style of management, WCRW transmitters were moved to Ashburn, a town closer to Washington. The radio towers are posted on property owned by a company, Loudoun Water, near an installation of China's Zigong Lantern Festival, a travelling exhibit that was open in December [2018]. * * * The programming of WCRW and the other stations, according to the report, Chinese Influence and American Interests, are part of what is known as the Grand External Propaganda Campaign 大外宣."
photo caption in this BBC report: "WCRW towers in Ashburn, shown above, broadcast programmes to Washington"
(i) WCRW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRW
(since 2011 "is owned and operated by Potomac Radio Group, Inc, and relays Chinese government-owned China Radio International full-time [CRI's 'English-language broadcasting platform * * * 24/7': www.wcrw1190.com")
(ii) Ashburn is a census-designated place (CDP), between Leesburg and Washington DC -- but only 5 miles from Leesburg downtown.
(iii) Zigong Lantern Festival 自贡灯会 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自贡灯会
(iv) Patricia Hall, One Loudoun All Aglow with LightUP Fest; Thanks to LightUP Fest for inviting us on a media preview! Fairfax Family Fun, Nov 15, 2018 https://www.fairfaxfamilyfun.com ... w-lightup-fest.html
("On display are dinosaurs, elephants, a pagoda, a ship, dragons, a giant peacock, pandas, giraffes; plus replicas of the United States Capitol, Eiffel Tower, and Sydney Opera House; and more")
(A) As you can see, in the lantern festival both the white and yellow buildings are part of US capitol -- "part of" because the yellow buildings are truncated wings of US Capitol. I am clueless why the Lantern Festival paints the buildings yellow (in reality, they are white).
(B) One Loudoun in Ashburn is developed by Miller and Smith, a privately owned, commercial real estate company (since 1964).
(C) Fairfax Family Fun's website under "About": "Fairfax Family Fun was created by a mom in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2010 to share ideas for fun family outings based on her family’s own 'discoveries' of the area. * * * The person behind it all: Patricia Hall * * * Now self-employed"
(d) "A new kind of honey trap [which is sectional heading that alludes to money; honey trap means opposite sex usually:] * * * A German official says that the Chinese agents have become more perfidious on LinkedIn over the past year. * * * He [Kevin Mallory] lived in Iraq, China and Taiwan and married Mariah Nan Hua in Taipei. In 2006, they bought their house in Raspberry Falls for $1.16m, with their three children, an adopted Alaskan malamute-style puppy Misty and another husky, Sierra. * * * His new [Chinese] acquaintance on LinkedIn introduced him to someone who worked for the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, a think-tank that provides offices for scholars and cover for intelligence agents. He offered Mallory a position as a consultant. Mallory flew to Shanghai and met his new bosses in a hotel room. These men did not say they worked for the intelligence agency, but they did not deny it either. During that meeting, the hair on Mallory's neck stood up, he later said. He had agreed to take their money, though. * * * Mallory returned to Leesburg with a Samsung Galaxy phone the Chinese had given him - complete with a chat application by which they communicated with him. That phone later proved to be his downfall. * * * But then things got really complicated for Mallory. He texted a CIA resource officer and a covert operative, both of whom attended his church, and said he was hoping to speak to someone in the CIA's East Asia division. He said later he was looking to tell the CIA what he was learning about the Chinese agents - effectively becoming a double agent. * * * Mallory placed classified material that he had obtained during the time that he worked for US intelligence agencies on a Toshiba SD [Secure Digital: a non-volatile memory card] card * * * Mallory's lawyers said that he did nothing wrong. They said he was simply collecting information about Chinese espionage so he could inform the CIA about Beijing's methods. He hoped to impress the CIA with his knowledge of Chinese tradecraft so the CIA would hire him back. * * * Mallory arranged to meet with a CIA official in an Ashburn hotel in May 2017. * * * Mallory was clearly surprised when an FBI special agent also showed up for the meeting, as prosecutors later showed in court. The presence of the FBI agent showed that federal investigators were interested in Mallory. Still he carried on as if everything was fine. He described the way the Chinese had provided him with a secure phone. At this point, he assumed that his text messages would remain encrypted. * * * Unbeknownst to Mallory, the [app] software had a glitch. * * * It's true that Mallory wanted to make money from the Chinese, but in the end it was not much: he earned $25,000 USD from his spy work. Mallory's house is now on the market: a short sale, it's listed at $740,000 and has lost more than a third of its value. * * * During a phone call to his daughter from jail, he tried to explain * * * Mallory's wife, 'an absolute rock,' as a friend describes her, is now driving a school bus. Jeremiah leads the church group in prayer and has the grace that comes from years of studying ballet. He is getting ready to go on a two-year missionary in Australia, following his brother, Michael, 22, who is there now")
(i) perfidy (n; from Latin [adjective masculine] perfidus faithless, from [English and Latin prefix] per- detrimental to + [noun feminine] fides faith) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfidy
(ii)
(A) Alaskan Malamute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Malamute
("similar to other arctic breeds and spitz breeds, such as the Greenland Dog, Canadian Eskimo Dog, the Siberian Husky * * *")
(B) spitz (n; "German, from [adjective] spitz pointed * * *; from the shape of its ears and muzzle — more at [English noun] SPIT [a slender pointed rod for holding meat over a fire]") https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spitz
(C) Siberian Husky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Husky
("The Siberian Husky, Samoyed, and Alaskan Malamute are all breeds directly descended from the original sled dog. It is thought that the term 'husky' is a corrupted [pronunciation] of the nickname 'Esky' once applied to the Eskimo and subsequently to their dogs")
作者: choi 时间: 1-22-2019 17:40
(e) Justin Rohrlich, Revealed: Chinese Front Company Used to Recruit US Double Agents. It sounded like an innocuous headhunting firm. Turned out it was just a cover story to hunt spies. The Daily Beast (a news website), June 9, 2018 https://www.thedailybeast.com/re ... it-us-double-agents
Mariah Nan Mallory (nee Hsiao; born Sept 13, 1961)
Quote:
"The US government's evidence against Mallory, who was found guilty Friday of espionage-related charges, included a photograph of a business card [of a job networking website : Darren & Associates] belonging to alleged Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) agent Richard Yang, who presented himself as a corporate headhunter. Prosecutors said he was one of Mallory's handlers. * * * Richard Yang subsequently introduced Mallory to an associate, Michael Yang, who claimed to be affiliated with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). It has a close relationship with the Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB), a sub-component of the Ministry of State Security, according to the FBI.
"Mallory's scheme unraveled in 2017 when he was selected for secondary screening at Chicago's O'Hare Airport after a trip to China. Although he said he had nothing to declare, customs officers found $16,500 in cash on him.
"according to prosecutors, Mallory gave away the most precious secrets of all—the names of US agents in China.
"Mallory's defense team claims that the documents were worthless and that he was actually operating as an independent, self-directed counterintelligence officer of sorts to reel in the Chinese agents so he could eventually turn them into US authorities. [former CIA officer Christopher] Burgess calls that 'hogwash.' Mallory wasn't freelancing in counterintelligence, he 'was all-in' as an asset, in Burgess' opinion. 'He was responsive to tasking, he used covert communications to reduce face-to-face interactions with his PRC contact,' said Burgess. 'If I [as a handler] was validating a source, those are all indications that I have a good one.'
"Mallory, his wife, and one of his three kids lived in a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 7,100-square foot house in Leesburg, Virginia, complete with a home theater and two fireplaces. He paid $1.15 million in 2005, a lot of money for a guy prosecutors said earned only $25,000 in the three years—all of it from his Chinese handlers. He also has three adult children from a previous marriage. * * * His wife, Mariah Nan-Hua Mallory, drives a school bus and earns roughly $9,000 a year.
* There is no need to read the rest of this Daily Beast report, or the press release (next).
(f) Press release: Jury Convicts Former CIA Officer of Espionage. Office of Public Affairs, US Department of Justice, June 8, 2018 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/j ... a-officer-espionage
("Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C Demers [and US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office] made the announcement * * * According to court records and evidence presented at trial, in March and April 2017, Mallory travelled to Shanghai and met with an individual, Michael Yang, whom he quickly concluded was working for the People's Republic of China Intelligence Service (PRCIS). During a voluntary interview with FBI agents on May 24, 2007 [sic; should be 2017], Mallory stated that Yang represented himself as working for a People's Republic of China think tank, however Mallory stated that he assessed Yang to be a Chinese Intelligence Officer. Mallory, a US citizen who speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, told FBI agents he travelled to Shanghai in March and April to meet with Yang and Yang's boss")