Why Bobby Fletcher Is Off His Rocker

Why Fletcher Is Off His Rocker. Below is a post from Fletcher to an article on the Chi Mak news. My comments follow his post.

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Bobby Fletcher's Post

Original charges against Chi Mak et al have been dropped. Government's petition to hold without bail has been denied.

It seems the prosecution have lied on so many things, it's beginning to smell like another Wen Ho Lee.

- no classified document; not about weapons at all
- files were not encripted in music; It's zipped for size
- no such list from China asking for data
- map of Knolls Atomic Lab turned out to be a hotel map from an old visit
- wiretap showed Chi Mak had no interested in the broken down Mak ancestrial home in Hong Kong

With no charge to nail the sister in-law, prosecution have trumped up a "fake marriage" charge, insinuating she whored herself out. Shame on us America:

Posted by bobby fletcher | February 14, 2006 6:52 PM
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Info below from the credible CI Centre.

Authorities say Mak and his wife copied the information onto CDs and then delivered them to Tai Wang Mak who encrypted the disks then was scheduled to fly to Hong Kong on Oct. 28 with Li. From there, Mak allegedly planned to travel to Guangzhou in China to meet a contact.

According to the 42-page affidavit, agents combing through the trash at Chi's residence found a number of documents torn into small pieces.

One document was machine-printed in China and instructed Chi to "join more [professional] associations and participate in more seminars with special subject matters" and then compile the special conference material on a disk. The document also lists the military technologies that were being sought including:

• Space-based electromagnetic intercept system
• Space-launched magnetic levitational platform
• Electromagnetic artillery system
• Submarine torpedoes
• Electromagnetic launch system
• Aircraft carrier electronic systems

A second document, hand-printed in Chinese, contained another list of technologies sought:

• Water jet propulsion
• Ship submarine propulsion technology, non-air reliant
• Power system configuration technology, weapons standardization, modularization
• Early warning technologies, command and control systems technology, defense against nuclear attack technology
• Permanent electromagnetic motor, overall solution for shipboard power system
• Shipboard internal and external communications systems
• Establishment of high frequency, self-linking, satellite communications
• Submarine HF transient launch technology
• DDX (next generation destroyer)

OTHER INFO ON MAK

- Gaylord testified that the FBI found letters written by a Chinese aviation official to a Boeing engineer named Greg Chung, who worked on the space shuttle program. The official, a representative of China's ministry of aviation, identified Mak as a relative in the letters and sought design information for the “development of the space shuttle,” Gaylord said.

The official, identified as Gu Wei Hao, wrote he would find a way to pay Chung cash in person for expenses incurred while collecting or purchasing information and said he could channel information through Chi Mak.

China's Growing Treat: How Many More Maks Are Out There?

China's Spying

If you have not been paying attention, read a little about Chi Mak. And for those who've been paying attention, recall Bobby Fletcher said this case was much ado about nothing, and that the U.S. lied about Chi Mak. Now, you can decide, first bit is Bobby Fletcher's post and the second is from Bloomberg. You decide.
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Original charges against Chi Mak et al have been dropped. Government's petition to hold without bail has been denied.

It seems the prosecution have lied on so many things, it's beginning to smell like another Wen Ho Lee.

- no classified document; not about weapons at all
- files were not encripted in music; It's zipped for size
- no such list from China asking for data
- map of Knolls Atomic Lab turned out to be a hotel map from an old visit
- wiretap showed Chi Mak had no interested in the broken down Mak ancestrial home in Hong Kong

With no charge to nail the sister in-law, prosecution have trumped up a "fake marriage" charge, insinuating she whored herself out. Shame on us America:

Posted by bobby fletcher | February 14, 2006 6:52 PM

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China's Spying

April 2 (Bloomberg) -- In a Santa Ana, California, courtroom, 66-year-old engineer Chi Mak listens to federal prosecutors describe how he and his family stole secrets from his employer, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. The alleged target: data about Navy submarine engines that run silently to avoid detection.

U.S. intelligence officials say the Mak case is unusual -- not in the nature of the charges brought against him, but that charges were brought at all.

For every person caught and accused of passing U.S. military and trade secrets to China, they say, scores of others go undetected. Taking advantage of an outmanned counterintelligence effort drained and distracted by the wars in Iraq and against al-Qaeda, current and former officials say, China has systematically managed to gain sensitive information on U.S. nuclear bombs and ship and missile designs.

``Iraq and the struggle with terrorism are sucking resources across the board,'' says Joel Brenner, the top counterintelligence official in the office of Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell. Meanwhile, ``the Chinese are really making a run at us.''

Adds Keith Riggin, a former senior official at the Central Intelligence Agency who focused on China issues: ``If the American people knew the number of officers going against the Chinese, they would be appalled.'' He says his frustration with the lack of resources was one reason he ended a 24-year career in 2006.

`Troublesome'

While 140 foreign intelligence services are trying to penetrate U.S. agencies, China's is the most aggressive, Brenner says. He describes China's activities as ``an intensifying and troublesome pattern.''

Chinese officials say the U.S. allegations are meritless.

``I wonder why people always feel threatened by others and treat others as thieves,'' Qin Gang, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said at a March 15 press briefing in Beijing. ``It indicates these people have a chip on their shoulders and have fragile psychologies.''

While the Federal Bureau of Investigation tripled the size of its China unit in 2001, plans for further expansion were scotched when the Iraq war began, says Rudy Guerin, a China expert who retired from the bureau last year. David Szady, the FBI's former assistant director for counterintelligence, says the FBI should hire another 1,500 agents, and most should be used against China's espionage within the U.S.

More Agents

Stephen Kodak, an FBI spokesman, declines to say how many more might be necessary. At the same time, he adds that ``the bureau would always welcome additional assets.''

Central Intelligence Agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano says his agency has enough resources, and that ``it would be wrong to suggest that other priorities have diluted the attention we pay to China. Over the past five years, the opposite has been true.''

The FBI spent $2.2 billion on counterterrorism and counterintelligence programs last year; the CIA budget is classified. The U.S. won't disclose how many counterintelligence agents are working on China-related issues.

U.S. officials say there's overwhelming evidence that China has a well-thought-out plan to employ thousands of professional spies and amateurs to get sensitive U.S. military and business data, sometimes directly from sympathetic employees, sometimes through a joint venture or third party.

Submarine Data

Mak, his wife, brother, sister-in-law and nephew were indicted on charges of conspiring to export U.S. defense articles to China's government. In court papers, prosecutors say he copied submarine data from L-3's Anaheim, California-based Power Paragon unit onto compact discs and enlisted the other family members to encrypt the information and help smuggle it to China. Brenner says the disks also contained information on the U.S. Navy's next-generation DD(X) warship.

Under questioning, Mak admitted sending information to Chinese operatives since 1983 on technology that included radar systems of Aegis cruisers, which are used to defend against multiple missile attacks, Brenner says.

Mak and his relatives pleaded innocent to the charges. His lawyer, Ronald Kaye, says he was taking the disks for a conference with fellow engineers, and that the information about the Navy engine was obsolete. The engineer also got approval from his supervisor to make presentations at the conference, Kay says.

`Asset to His Country'

Mak ``was not only an asset to the company but a profound asset to his country,'' he says. Mak's relatives will go on trial in May.

U.S. officials say China's effort encompasses industrial secrets as well as national-security ones. Brenner cites the case of Gary Min, a DuPont Co. chemist who admitted obtaining information on company products, including materials used in airplane construction, that prosecutors valued at $400 million.

Authorities say that between August and December 2005, Min, 43, downloaded 22,000 confidential abstracts from the Wilmington, Delaware-based company's electronic library. The documents included information on all DuPont's major product lines as well as emerging technologies.

Some of the searches focused on Vespel, a synthetic resin used to coat car, airplane and oil pump parts, and Declar, a plastic material used in the automotive and energy industries and in airplane interiors, according to court papers.

Shredded Documents

U.S. law-enforcement authorities said that when they searched Min's Grove City, Ohio, home, they found computers containing confidential files, garbage bags filled with shredded company documents and the remains of DuPont papers that had been burned in the fireplace. In court documents, DuPont said the information would be ``highly valuable'' on the open market in ``foreign countries, specifically China.''

A call to Min's lawyers wasn't returned. Min hasn't been charged with being a Chinese spy.

Brenner says his office is still assessing the damage from another case involving Katrina Leung, who the FBI had used for 20 years as a double agent to obtain information from the Chinese, and who prosecutors in turn accused of being a Chinese agent herself.

Authorities accused Leung, 52, of taking documents from James Smith, head of the FBI's Chinese counterintelligence operation in Los Angeles, over the course of a nearly 20-year affair with him.

Peter Lee

Some of those documents related to ``Royal Tourist,'' the FBI code name for the investigation of Peter Lee, an employee of defense contractor TRW Inc. Lee, who was accused of giving radar technology being developed to track submarines to Chinese scientists, pleaded guilty in 1997 to willful transmission of national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it.

While the case against Leung was dismissed in 2005, Smith pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI about his relationship with her. Smith was one of the FBI's most seasoned China experts, a resource the agency has struggled to replace, intelligence officials say.

The CIA also hasn't been able to replace its veteran China experts when they retire, Riggin says. ``We're losing huge experience in this area.''

With the CIA occupied with preventing U.S. government secrets from falling into the wrong hands, Riggin and others say, companies doing business in China are especially vulnerable to losing non-defense information. U.S. businesses are paying particular attention to the first intellectual-property suit brought in a Chinese court by Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corp., the world's biggest semiconductor maker.

Another Chinese Spy

The last article I posted would have us believe that the Chinese use propaganda spys to influence and push a particular agenda, as it alluded in the Bobby Fletcher article. But they are after just more than propaganda.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The career of a Chinese-born electrical engineer, Chi Mak, over four decades is a textbook example of how China's spy services encourage their agents to burrow into American society in order to steal America's defense secrets, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

Mr. Mak was arrested in 2005 after FBI agents stopped his brother and sister-in-law at the Los Angeles airport as they were about to travel to Guangzhou, China. In carry-on bags, the couple had a compact disc containing music files, as well as encrypted technical papers pertaining to quiet propulsion and other projects Mr. Mak worked on at Power Paragon.

Mr. Staples said the high-grade encryption was the hallmark of an espionage operation. "It's not an encryption program that you can go to Fry's or Office Depot and buy. It was a custom-made encryption program and its author was a Chinese man," the prosecutor said.

China Prepares To Take Back Taiwan By Force

I just returned from a trip to China, so I'm sorry I have not been able to post. Anyway, I'm back for few months before I travel again.

China will go to any lengths to take back Taiwan, even send covert operatives into the U.S., penetrate sensitive defense contractors, and steal U.S. technology. The trial of Chi Mak begins and for the first time we get to see the inside of Mak's CCP intelligence operation.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The career of a Chinese-born electrical engineer, Chi Mak, over four decades is a textbook example of how China's spy services encourage their agents to burrow into American society in order to steal America's defense secrets, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

The naval technologies Mr. Mak worked on for a defense contractor, Power Paragon, were of interest to China because of its ambition to gain control over a democratically governed island off the mainland, Taiwan. "Their no. 1 goal is to support the retaking of Taiwan, if it comes to that," the prosecutor said. He said the main obstacle to the Chinese effort is the presence in the area of the American 7th Fleet. "The Chinese Navy has determined that it cannot fight the 7th Fleet face to face, but the way to attack the 7th.

Mr. Staples said the high-grade encryption was the hallmark of an espionage operation. "It's not an encryption program that you can go to Fry's or Office Depot and buy. It was a custom-made encryption program and its author was a Chinese man," the prosecutor said. He alleged that American investigators would have been unable to break the encryption if a search of the home of Mr. Mak's brother hadn't turned up a key to the code.

Spy visits Cover For Action?

I'm amazed at the interest generated by a very small snippet I posted last week. The interest is over an Organ Harvesting report by David Kilgour and David Matas. After an initial challenge of the post by Anon, several others posted highlighting Anon as being the spy "Bobby Fletcher", alias of course.

What an honor! If Bobby Flether is truly a spy, we welcome him back. We have to ask, what kind of spy would be concerned with a little bit on the Falun Gong? An agent of propaganda... of misinformation?

As I said before, I appreciate comments and debate, and encourage everyone to continue posting on these issues.

As you can imagine, with an alleged spy visiting the blog, I did a little research of the so called Spy: Bobby Fletcher. Here's what I've come up with:

- Fletcher has posted on numerous other blogs and sites about the Kilgour report, the links and language appear to be identical to those which Anon posted here. From this analysis, I will assume Anon is Bobby Fletcher.

Fletcher has also posted on other issues. In Febuary of last year, he posted a rather shallow bit about Chi Mak on the Jawa Report. In the post Fletcher says:

- "It seems the prosecution have lied on so many things, it's beginning to smell like another Wen Ho Lee."
- the "prosecution have trumped up a "fake marriage" charge, insinuating she whored herself out."

Just as he did here, Fletcher provided a link to an article which did not support his claims. In this instance, it was the San Mateo Daily Journal. The article does it say the prosecution lied or "trumped up" fake marriage charges. Perhaps Fletcher is hoping you'll just take his word for it, (a type of propaganda ). Interestingly, what the article does say is the following:

- prosecutors said they found a detailed hand-drawn map of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, used for testing prototype nuclear reactors, at Chi Mak’s house.
- U.S. Magistrate Judge Marc Goldman set Chi Mak’s bond at $300,000 and placed him in home detention with a global positioning system to monitor his movements.
- Mak, 65, stole computer disks from Anaheim defense contractor Power Paragon, where he was lead engineer on a sensitive research project involving propulsion systems for Navy warships. Power Paragon has more than 200 contracts with the U.S. Navy, according to court documents.
- Prosecutors have previously said authorities recovered from the CD restricted documents on the DDX Destroyer, considered the destroyer of the future, that were marked “for official use only.” Authorities also allege they found two lists in Chinese asking Chi Mak to get documents about submarine torpedo technology, electromagnetic artillery systems, weapon standardization, early warning technology to detect incoming missiles and defenses against nuclear attack.

Nothing in the news article speaks to trumped up charges or wrong doing by prosecutors. When a judge sets $300,000 bail and forces you to wear a GPS monitor... that's a pretty good indication your up a creek. Stealing computer discs that have sensitive Naval research on involving propulsion, that's not so good either. Then when prosecutors find a list asking you to acquire EM system technology, sub torpedo technology and early warning system technology, you've got problems.

So the question from Cover For Action (CFA) is: what was the motivation of Fletcher's post? Why the Anti-U.S. rhetoric with no supporting documentation?

We've outlined at least two of Fletcher's post with anti-US sentiment which has little or no legitimate documentation to support it, however, we've not seen Fletcher post any concerns about China's anti U.S. machine. For example, no criticism on the other Chinese Spy cases in the U.S., China's stalking U.S. subs, China's laser attack on U.S. Sats, Chinese persecution of dissidents, etc. etc. This leaves one wondering what Fletcher is doing out there is cyber space. Could he be a spy, and Agent of influence? If so, we welcome him back.

Fletcher also listed an article from the LA Times. I could not access the article, but did find a later (June 7, 2006) official press release. Here are the highlights.

- Two Southern California family members originally from the People’s Republic of China were indicted today by a grand jury on charges of lying to the government and acting as agents of the People’s Republic of China. Fuk Heung Li, 48, and her son, Billy Yui Mak, 26, were charged with failing to register as agents of a foreign government and making false statements to federal authorities.

- Chi Mak, an engineer with a U.S. Navy defense contractor, allegedly collected technical information about the U.S. Navy’s current and future warship technologies. This information was sensitive and subject to restriction regarding its distribution, storage and handling. According to court documents, Chi Mak and his wife allegedly copied the information intended for the PRC onto CD-ROM disks, which were then given to Tai Mak. Billy Mak then allegedly encrypted the defense data onto a CD-ROM disk in preparation for surreptitious delivery to the PRC.

CFA asks: Since Fletcher's anti-U.S. posting on Chi Mak, several other news reports and indictments have come to pass and shine negative light on Chi Mak and his intelligence cell, yet Fletcher has not retracted his allegations that the U.S. lied about the Mak's. Why?

In addition, in October of 2006, new indictments were again handed down and Fletcher was silent. Military.com reported the news which included the following:

- The new indictment includes three counts of actual and attempted unlawful export of defense articles for Chi Mak; one count of possession of property in aid of a foreign government for Tai Mak

- Five members of a family accused of scheming to send sensitive information about Navy warships to China were indicted Wednesday on new conspiracy charges, prosecutors said.

More Fletcher analysis coming soon!

Chinese Threat to the U.S. 2006 Round Up

Military:
* Theft of U.S. Military Technology: On U.S. Soil
* Kwonhwan Park, a Chinese operative smuggled Black Hawk engines to China.
* Ting-Ih Hsu and Hai Lin Nee illegially shipped Low-noise amplification chips are used with the Hellfire air-to-ground missiles that arm Apache helicopters (top). The chips also have nonmilitary applications. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CORBIS (APACHE)
* Chi Mak, Mak Tai-wing and Li Fuk-heung intelligence cell operating in Los Angeles stole material included research into silent propulsion systems for US warships -- technology that is banned from export to China.
* Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge, both Chinese operatives set up a front company backed by a Beijing venture-capital firm with links to China's military. The operatives are accused of stealing chip designs and software from NetLogic Microsystems.
* The FBI's Palo Alto office is investigated approximately a dozen espionage cases with suspected ties to China. Nationwide, the number of cases involving China has spiked more than 50 percent in the past few years.
* Chinese computer hackers penetrated the Naval War College network the computer attack was detected Nov. 15 and two days later the U.S. Strategic Command raised the security alert level for the Pentagon's 12,000 computer networks and 5 million computers.
* China operatives obtained secret stealth technology used on B-2 bomber engines from a Hawaii-based spy ring in a compromise U.S. officials say will allow Beijing to copy or counter a key weapon in the Pentagon's new strategy.
* A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected.
* A former Pentagon analyst who passed highly classified intelligence to two Chinese military officers.

Human Rights
* David Matas and David Kilgour note the government of China have put to death a large number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized for sale at high prices.

* In an amazing October report Congressional Quarterly noted the following in their SPYTALK section:
- The white van gunned into a busy Fairfax County, Va., intersection last January, turned right and sped at the line of cars across the yellow line, seeming to aim at the Hyundai Elantra waiting for the light to change.

In the car was Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent political refugee from China who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and her assistant. The truck careened off her door, then backed up. Its engine revved and then the van rammed hard into the Hyundai again, throwing the women back in their seats, shaking them like rag dolls.

Previously her daughter had confronted “Chinese-looking men” videotaping her ground-floor Fairfax apartment from the parking lot, she said. Before they sped off, she wrote down a license number, which was traced to a local car rental agency, and from there to China’s embassy, according to aides to Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va., who discussed her case with the FBI. (An FBI source confirmed the incident on the basis of anonymity.)

Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uyghar American Association, says he and other rights advocates get constant telephone calls from China threatening them and smearing Kadeer.
Uyghars traveling to the United States are offered inducements such as houses and cars to spy on activists in the U.S., he and others say.

- The long arms of China’s secret police have reached into the United States, according to witnesses at the hearing, who recounted physical intimidation, beatings and even death threats against Falun Gong practitioners in Atlanta, New York and Chicago, where assault charges were filed against a Chinese consulate official.

In upstate New York, according to a congressional staffer, Chinese agents took pictures of license plates at a Falun Gong event, and then apparently traced them through their owners back to relatives in China, who started getting threats.

In Providence, R.I., activists took pictures of a Chinese man who regularly emptied newspaper boxes selling periodicals critical of the regime.

Anywhere in the U.S. that Falun Gong activists apply for protest permits or sponsor human rights-oriented events, Chinese diplomats or their agents can be counted on to pressure local officials, according to news reports and independent sources.

In a heretofore unreported incident in Austin, Texas, last year, a senior manager at a major Internet technology company with extensive business in China was pressured into resigning after getting involved in a pro-human rights art exhibit, according to two sources. With legal action pending, the persons involved were reluctant to discuss the issue further.

- Atlanta, USA - Peter Yuan Li was beaten, tied up, blindfolded with duct tape and robbed of two laptop computers last week by three Asian men who burst into his suburban Atlanta home with a gun and knife. He and other Chinese-Americans suspect it was no ordinary robbery. Li, who works for a newspaper and Web site critical of the Chinese Communist Party, is one of several people tied to China's banned Falun Gong spiritual movement who say they have been harassed and hit with break-ins in the United States by Chinese agents.

- The other cases of harassment in the United States mostly involve threatening phone calls. However, Alex Ma, a vice president for the San Francisco branch of The Epoch Times and a Falun Gong member, said his home was broken into twice last year, and in the first incident, two laptops were taken.

After the first break-in, Ma said, he got a call from an older sister in China, who rarely calls. She asked him to stop doing things the government doesn't like, he said. Haiying He, a Falun Gong member who lives outside Boston, said he has gotten threatening calls.

He also said that his father back in China once passed along a message from officials there that they were keeping an eye on him.

In another instance, Ma said, he got a message on his home phone that was a recording of a cell phone call he had had with another Epoch Times employee. Ma said he is convinced the incidents are part of an effort by Chinese government authorities to intimidate those who criticize them. ``You cannot say this is all coincidence,'' he said.