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Lodestar

(2,388 posts)
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 07:36 AM Apr 2016

Chinese man sentenced to death for leaking 150,000 classified documents

Source: Guardian

Huang Yu convicted of leaking state secrets to unidentified foreign power, state television said on Tuesday.

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an unidentified foreign power, state television said on Tuesday, offering unusual details of a kind of case rarely mentioned in public.

The man, a computer technician from Sichuan named as Huang Yu, worked for a government department which handled state secrets, but he was a bad employee and was sacked, the report said.

Filled with anger, he messaged a “foreign spy organisation” on the internet and offered to sell documents he had obtained while working for his former employer, who gladly took him up on his offer and so began their relationship, it added.

Meeting in south-east Asia and Hong Kong, Huang eventually handed over 150,000 documents, covering secrets ranging from everything from the ruling Communist party to military and financial issues, the report said.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/19/chinese-man-sentenced-to-death-for-leaking-150000-classified-documents

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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. I smell an upcoming leak on chinese corruption.
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 08:05 AM
Apr 2016

First the Panama Papers implicating the most powerful families of China...

Then insider-documents on domestic "financial issues" of China...

Akicita

(1,196 posts)
2. How come we don't execute Chinese spys when we catch them here in the USA?
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:06 AM
Apr 2016

Sounds like a good deterrent.

Akicita

(1,196 posts)
7. We lose a lot today. Many of the Chinese defense systems are mimics of our own using stolen plans.
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 01:49 PM
Apr 2016

We should probably quit keeping secrets at home on our private servers.

 

happyslug

(14,779 posts)
10. In most cases, the spy exchange what they had sent home in exchange for their lives
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 04:39 PM
Apr 2016

Even when they do NOT, the country they spy on keeps them alive hoping to find out what they did sent. It is only when you have a spy that knows nothing that they are executed. That is what happened to the Rosenbergs in the 1950s

More on the Rosenbergs:

Here is the FBI version of the story. The FBI case sets forth the facts in the case, then spins them to show that the Rosenberg were spies. It is clear that Julius Rosenberg was a communist agent, but had done NOTHING since 1945 when he was arrested in 1950. In 1950 Julius Rosenberg was still a Soviet Spy, but never had access to any data on Atomic bombs. Since the Rosenbergs never really had any real secret data on how to make an A-bomb, the FBI report goes to great lengths to avoid saying so AND NOT saying so. Thus the reason for the Rosenberg's execution, they had nothing to trade for they really knew nothing. The people who did know things, traded that information for their lives OR traded in the Rosenbergs:

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/the-atom-spy-case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

 

anigbrowl

(13,889 posts)
8. Let me get this straight, you support Bernie but also favor executing foreign spies?
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 02:37 PM
Apr 2016

Not all foreign spies but Chinese ones in particular. Do please explain your thinking on this topic, as the husband of a Chinese person I am very eager to hear your rationale for targeting one particular ethnic group.

Akicita

(1,196 posts)
9. I originally posted in jest. Someone bit so I just kept going.
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:02 PM
Apr 2016

Didn't mean to pick on the Chinese in particular and certainly not as a race. The article was about a Chinese spy. The Chinese government is good at getting our secrets. I wasn't targeting an ethnic group but rather a government. If the Venezueian government is corrupt and you point that out that does not mean you are slurring all Hispanics as corrupt.

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