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Speaker 1: Welcome to Spycraft, a podcast that tells gripping life and

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death spy stories and the amazing devices and operations that

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made them possible. Now let's get started.

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Speaker 2: Alleged Chinese American pro democracy activists has been charged with

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spying on fellow dissidents in New York for the Chinese government.

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One of Yuan June's Tang's alleged Marx was a congressional

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candidate who was forced to pull out of the race,

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according to an indictment, claiming at the time he was

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the victim of a smear campaign. Tang, sixty seven years old,

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was arrested after federal prosecutor said he secretly worked for

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the Chinese Ministry of State Secrety Security. He conspired to

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work as a foreign agent of China without properly registering

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with US authorities. Tang in a flushing as a naturalized

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American citizen who was imprisoned in China after the deadly

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nineteen eighty nine to pro democracy protests. In two thousand

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and two, he defected a Taiwan and was then granted

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political asylum in the US, where he has regularly worked

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with fellow Chinese dissidents since moving to the city. He

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has demonstrated against the Chinese government, including a monthly protest

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in front of the Chinese consulate. However, the complaint charges

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he has actually been collecting information to send back to

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the Chinese government looks like a double agent. Specifically, Tang

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regularly provided information had gathered about individuals and groups viewed

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by the PRC publicist Republic of China's potentially adverse to

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the PRC's interest. Among his targets was a Chinese pro

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democracy activists who ran for Congress in twenty twenty two,

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Jiong Yan, a pro democracy activist in Iraqi war veteran.

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But Yan dropped out of the race, exclusively telling the

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Post of the time he knew he was the victim

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of spying by unregistered Chinese agents. Yan, who was also

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a pastor, said he was the victim of a SMIA

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campaign that includes setting him up with a prostitute, which

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was which left him unable to raise money in his community.

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The Post first revealed that Chinese spies working out of

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an office above a Chinatown noodle shop in Lower Manhattan,

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we're allegedly spying on their own nationals and Operation fox Hunt.

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In addition to the unofficial Chinese police station in the city.

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There are some one hundred clandestine Chinese police stations around

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the world, according to a report by Safeguard Defenders. As

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part of the alleged espionage work, Tang traveled twice to

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macaua once the China between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty

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three for face to face meetings with his handlers. An

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exchange for cash, Tang provided the Chinese government with information

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about pro democracy events in the US. In one instance,

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Tang man with an MSS officer from China who installed

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his phone with a bug that allowed all photos and

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videos to be transmitted directly to the handlers in China.

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The compromised phone to take a photograph of an event

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at the opening of the June fourth Memorial Museum used

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established in remembrants of the Tienaman Square massacre, and sent

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the picture to the Chinese