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 itemsGiven 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.
Not necessarily. Here in lies the problem with vetting people with dual nationalities, there is no test for loyalty that is 100% accurate. It comes down to doing a risk assessment and making a judgement call but at the end of the day noone can read people's minds and predict what someone will do tomorrow.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.
There is no 100% loyalty. Stop.
Anyone can decide, for billions of reasons (most of the time...money) to cooperate with an enemy or competitor.
This year in Italy a navy officer (a Captain) was sentenced to life in prison (30 years in Italy maximum for non violent crimes) for espionage in favour of the Russians, and he didn't even visited Russia in his life once.
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Navy officer Biot gets 29 yrs for passing secrets to Russia - General News - Ansa.it
Italian navy officer Walter Biot got a definitive sentence of 29 years for passing military secrets to the Russians on Wednesday. (ANSA)www.ansa.it
|“It’s something we’re actually considering, the concept of battleship, nice, six-inch side, solid steel. Not aluminum, aluminum that melts. If it looks at a missile coming at it, [it] starts melting as the missile’s about two miles away,” he continued. “Now those ships, they don’t make them that way anymore, but you look at it, your Secretary [Phelan] likes it, and I’m sort of open to it. And bullets are a lot less expensive than missiles.” |Another idea from the world's greatest CiC, aks IOTUS. Might happen faster than his twin engine F-35 Ferrari or was it F-55.
Is Trump’s Call For Putting Battleships Back In The Navy's Fleet Even Feasible?
As koxinga posted, Kim visited the Choe Hyon (lead ship in the class). It was Kang Kon, second ship in the class, that suffered the launch accident back in May.... Just add India Media (The Hindu) that put video from North Korea KCNA on Kim's visit to this Destroyer. This is the Destroyer that have launch accident before. According to KCNA Kim's vow to have the third Destroyer soon. ...
Thanks for the correction, I have mess up the name, as I tought Choe Hyon is the second one. As previously Fat Kim already inspect the ship when launch. Anyway already retract that part on my previous post.It was Kang Kon, second ship in the class, that suffered the launch accident back in May.