美媒：令完成正在向美情报机构汇报

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VOA Chinese, Feb 3, 2016
www.voachinese.com/content/us-me ... 160202/3175512.html

, which is based on

Bill Gertz, Chinese Defector Reveals Beijing’s Secrets; US intelligence is debriefing brother of former presidential aide, translating documents. Washington Free Beacon, Feb 3, 2016.
freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-defector-reveals-beijings-secrets/

Quote:

"Ling Wancheng * * * has been undergoing a debrief by FBI, CIA, and other intelligence officials since last fall at a secret location in the United States * * * Other officials said Ling defected sometime in the summer of 2015 after his brother, once the senior administrative aide to former Chinese leader Hu Jintao, came under suspicion for leaking state secrets.

US "Officials said Ling Wancheng is being kept under tight security [of America] after US intelligence agencies detected the activity of covert Chinese agents tasked with tracking down Chinese nationals sought by the government.

"Ling Jihua * * * secretly obtained some 2,700 internal documents from a special Communist Party unit he headed until 2012. The unit was in charge of storing and archiving classified documents.  Ling Jihua then gave the documents to his brother, who owns a $2.5 million residence in Loomis, California, near Sacramento. The classified documents were transferred between the brothers as a safety measure: They were intended to be used as leverage to dissuade Chinese authorities from taking action against Ling Jihua.

"The Chinese have looked at the case as a criminal case while the US government is treating the defection as an intelligence matter, making Ling’s repatriation to China unlikely.

"The first details of the Ling [Wancheng] case were disclosed in two dissident Chinese magazines in Hong Kong, Qianshao 前哨 and Chenming 爭鳴, in November. The London Sunday Times first reported the magazines’ disclosures, some of which were confirmed by US officials. * * * According to Chengming, Hu Jintao suffered a stroke during a meeting on the Ling affair and was hospitalized. Hu was [had been] last seen in public in early May 2015.

Note: Loomis, California is about 25 miles northeast of Sacramento.