(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")
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