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Subject: FBI COVER-UP OF CHINESE INFILTRATION OF WHITE HOUSE
from The Washington Weekly:
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FBI COVER-UP OF CHINESE INFILTRATION OF WHITE HOUSE
Clinton and Gore Funded by Chinese Agents Since 1989
Friday's leak through the Washington Post that the FBI has
known since 1991 that the Democrat Party is infiltrated by
Chinese agents is a seminal event. For it offers sufficient
detail to complete the picture of how the entire Chinese
intelligence penetration succeeded. When combining it with other
leaks, intelligence reports, and congressional investigation
results, the following picture can be put together:
In the 1980s, the People's Republic of China made a decision
to build the most powerful military force in the world. In less
than a decade, China's annual military spending tripled. In terms
of manpower, it already had the largest army in the world. But to
project force, it needed a modern Navy as well. To rival the
U.S. military, it needed advanced U.S. military technology, and
it needed U.S. dollars to purchase such technology. Republican
administrations had permitted trade with China that produced hard
currency, but had employed tight export controls to prevent
advanced U.S. military technology from falling into the hands of
Communists. So the Chinese government bet its money on two
Southern Democrats with an expressed and desperate desire to
ascend to the U.S. Presidency.
THE INGENIOUS DIVERSION
It is against the law for a foreign government to support
U.S. politicians, and movement inside U.S. borders of Communist
China agents is watched closely by FBI counterintelligence.
So Communist China set up a diversion so ingenious that it
has confused reporters for years, but has been known to and kept
secret by the FBI. Mainland China used its archrival Taiwan, as
well as Hong Kong, as conduits for the funds paid to Clinton and
Gore. Democratic Taiwan and Hong Kong are the last places you
would look for Communist agents, and the many U.S. subsidiaries
of Taiwanese, Hong Kong, and Indonesian companies and
organizations offered convenient footholds through which to
launder money and buy influence with U.S. politicians.
China Resources bought into Lippo Bank of Hong Kong and
Indonesia and placed its officers John Huang and James Riady in
Arkansas. John Huang was born in Mainland China, but had served
in the Taiwanese air force. Ya Long Economic Trading of the
Chinese Hainan province sought influence and legitimacy through
the Hsi Lai temple of Taiwan, through its representative Maria
Hsia, born in Taiwan.
Both John Huang and Maria Hsia are known by the FBI to be
agents of Communist China. Together with James Riady, they formed
the Pacific Leadership Council, and invited none other than
then-Senator Al Gore to the Hsi Lai temple headquarters in Taiwan
in 1989. On behalf of the Chinese government, Maria Hsia
promised Al Gore that she would persuade all her colleagues "in
the future to play a leader role in your presidential race." When
Al Gore entered the Hsi Lai temple of Los Angeles seven years
later to facilitate the laundry of donations in a "fund-raiser,"
he must have known it came from the Chinese government.
Well, Gore didn't make it to the presidential race a second
time, because of another promising candidate that the Chinese
government had bet even more money on: Bill Clinton, then-
Governor of Arkansas.
THE BAG MEN
To help Clinton's election for president, enormous amounts of
money was needed. The money flowed primarily through three
channels. Money needed for legitimate spending by the Clinton
campaign flowed through the Lippo- controlled Worthen Bank of
Little Rock, which among other cash transfers granted Clinton a
crucial $3.5 million "loan" to bring him over the top in the New
York primary. Money needed for legitimate spending by the
Democrat National Committee was laundered primarily through the
Pacific Leadership Council. For Clinton's 1996 re-election,
additional money for the DNC and for various committees and funds
operating on behalf of Bill Clinton was laundered though
individual bag men like Charlie Trie and Johnny Chung, who had
the money wired to them directly from the Bank of China.
But in 1992, the most significant use of funds, we suspect,
was illegitimate. A campaign such as that of Bill Clinton cannot
succeed without the availability of unlimited cash to buy off
bank regulators and public officials to look the other way. To
pay local, state, and federal police officers to block
investigations and grand jury proceedings. To pay newspaper
reporters and editors to avert their gaze and stop investigating
sensitive issues. To throw around in vote-buying efforts, in the
Clinton campaign referred to as "walking-around money."
All these illegitimate uses of campaign money have one thing
in common. The money need not be laundered. It need only be
brought in from the donor. And brought in it was. In planeloads
of cash, brought in through the remote Mena airport and
transferred to the trunk of the Cadillac of bag man Jerry Parks
who, according to the London Telegraph, together with Vince
Foster transported the illegal cash to Little Rock. Both Foster
and Parks are now dead, and we have no idea how much cash was
brought in through this route, though we suspect it surpassed the
amount of money that was laundered into legitimate political
spending.
Of all the bag men discovered so far, six are now dead, 36
have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, eleven have fled the country,
and eleven are living in foreign countries and refuse to
cooperate.
THE PAYBACK
With Bill Clinton elected president and John Huang placed
with a top secret clearance (without examination) in the Commerce
Department, the Chinese got what they wanted: unlimited access
to the military, civilian and dual-use technology that had been
denied them during Republican administrations:
(*) F-16 fighter jets
(*) Cray supercomputers for weapons development
(*) Machine tools for cruise missile construction
(*) Global Positioning System technology for missile guidance
(*) Satellites and satellite technology
(*) The entire U.S. Patent database.
(*) Nuclear Power plants
John Huang used his top secret clearance to gain access to
classified U.S. military and industrial secrets on encryption
technology and its relationship to intelligence gathering and
software marketing across the world. He then took the documents
across the street, to an office run by Riady partner Stephens' of
Little Rock, where he dropped the documents so they could be
collected by Chinese intelligence.
And when Chinese military and intelligence wanted a foothold
in America, President Clinton personally met twice with Long
Beach officials to push through a deal to lease the former naval
base to the Chinese COSCO front company on extremely favorable
terms despite vocal national security concerns.
THWARTING THE INVESTIGATION
The most shocking and devastating revelation made by Bob
Woodward's story Friday is that after Chairman Thompson announced
two weeks ago that he was suspending his public hearings, the FBI
obtained intelligence showing that the Ministry of State Security
in Beijing -- the Chinese equivalent of the CIA -- boasted it had
been successful in "thwarting" the congressional inquiry.
How could Chinese agents be able to "thwart" an inquiry by
the U.S. congress? The answer is not hard to find. One need only
look at those who irrationally attacked Chairman Fred Thompson
for his opening statement, where he revealed that there was a
Chinese plot to influence the election. His statement was
deliberately non-partisan, so there would be no partisan reasons
to counterattack. But the interests of the Chinese intelligence
agency would be served. Senator John Glenn said: "I think I have
seen everything the chairman has seen, and I recall nothing to
document allegations that China had done anything illegal." After
the FBI offered to show the classified evidence to any Senator
who wished to see it, Senator Glenn fell strangely silent. Even
more shocking was Senator Glenn's offer to negotiate an immunity
agreement on behalf of John Huang. How did John Glenn end up
representing a Communist agent whom Senate staffers had been
unable to locate?
Senators Carl Levin and Robert Toricelli displayed similar
behavior. Both having accepted cash from John Huang, they too
spoke the case of the Chinese intelligence agency: "I find the
fact that Mr. Huang would maintain an arrangement where he would
make phone calls outside the Department of Commerce not in and of
itself suspicious," Senator Toricelli said of the secret
Stephens' office where Huang dropped his stolen state secrets.
We can add to this list Senate Minority leader Tom Daschle,
who has accepted cash from Maria Hsia, and who personally
recommended John Huang to be placed in the Commerce department.
He later was instrumental in imposing a fixed deadline on
Thompson's inquiry, so it could be stalled by Democrat Senators
and by the White House.
Chairman Thompson's landmark opening statement included a
reference to the U.S. media. He referred to intelligence showing
Chinese agents "attempting to communicate Beijing's views through
media channels in the United States."
It comes as no surprise, then, that network and cable news
anchors took the position of Senator Glenn in ridiculing
Thompson's allegation. And the Boston Globe wrote:
"Does anybody really think little Clinton, raised in that
tar-shingled shack in Hope, Ark., with his gutsy mom going
out to nurse the poor for short money, trying to find a life
for herself and her two boys, marrying four times along the
way, learning to take her small pleasures where she could, at
the race track or the cigarette counter, do you really think
that her boy grows up to become president only to sell out
the USA to Chinese spies laundering cash through Buddhist
nuns? I don't." [Violin music off]
Whether they know it or not, all of those listed above have
been used as instruments of a successful disinformation and
propaganda campaign by a foreign Communist government.
Fortunately, the Chinese haven't gotten to Bob Woodward or to
William Safire, or to Tim Russert who repeatedly has invited them
both on NBC's "Meet the Press" to tell what they know about the
Chinese penetration of the U.S. government. Chris Matthews is
another of the few mainstream media commentators who has had an
ear for the gravity of this scandal. And there is at least one
FBI counterintelligence agent who is so outraged by the cover-up
of his superiors that he is now leaking to Bob Woodward.
Neither have the Chinese government gotten to Dan Burton or
Bob Barr, the only Congressmen left to take seriously the threat
of Chinese infiltration. Burton, a fervent anti-Communist, and
Barr, a former CIA employee, now form the last line of defense
against a People's Republic of China already occupying the White
House.
[ For more details of the Chinese penetration, its bag men, and
its reporting and non-reporting since 1995, see the new
Washington Weekly archive "Chinagate," available to the public at
http://www.federal.com ]
Published in the Nov. 17, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly
Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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