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[spoz]

It gets me wondering about the security clearance processes that even let him join. Don’t think you’d get into the Australian forces in the same situation.

 

[FormerDirtDart]

Given that he has an entirely Chinese name & was in the USN for a relatively short time before starting his treason, I think Sandhi Yudha is right, & there was more to it than money. It's even possible that he was planted in the job.

If he was planted he would have mentioned his initial contact with his Chinese handler to his fellow sailors, and he wouldn't have been getting paid to provide relatively minor intel items
More likely the Chinese hoped to develop him for a long term asset