The Chinese government began blocking access to the popular blogging site LiveJournal on Friday, cutting off its citizens from the roughly 1.8 million blogs the service hosts.
The timing of the block coincides with the National People's Congress meeting in Beijing, says Xiao Qiang, a Chinese dissident and founder of the China Digital Times.
(BLOGGERS COMMENT: China Digital Times is an excellent site, CFA readers are encouraged to visit it... at the link above).
While China has reached an accord with some blog hosting companies, including Microsoft's MSN Spaces, it has a history of blocking others, including Google's Blogger.com.
So COVER FOR ACTION is blocked, how can we get our message into China?
"For whatever reason (if) you've been blocked, it's almost impossible to get open again," says Xiao. "It could be one of the blogs in Livejournal has the content they want to block. They are very bluntly over-blocking sites."
Showing posts with label Chinese Hakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese Hakers. Show all posts
Monday, March 5, 2007
The PRC is Jamming TV Again!!!!!
The document, translated at the bottom of this article, orders that the NTDTV New Year Show should be destroyed by "any and all means", and if not possible, to "contain them and minimize their impact."
The Chicago affiliate of NBC (the U.S. National Broadcast Company), WMAQ Channel 5, reported Feb. 6 on the interference with the Spectacular in Chicago,"Someone in China has been tying up their phone lines, and the consulate has been calling the event's sponsors, including NBC 5 T.V."
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
F-U is for Filter Unlimited
Hackers bust out a massive database of secret filtered words in China. A partial list is provided below. Hit the link for a larger list.
The Words
falun：法轮 falundafa：法轮大法 flg：法轮功 freechina：自由中国 freedom：自由freenet：自由网 多党党 multiple partie真善忍忍 truthful,kind and toleranttolarant明慧慧 minghuihui大法法 dafafa洪志志 hongzhizhi红志志 hongzhizhi洪智智 hongzhizhi红智智 hongzhizhi法轮轮 falunlun法论论 falunlun法沦沦 falunlun 法伦伦 falunlun 发轮轮 falunlun 发论论 falunlun 发沦沦 falunlun 发伦伦 falunlun 轮功功 lungonggong 轮公公 lungonggong 轮攻攻 lungonggong 沦功功 lungonggong 沦公公 lungonggong 沦攻攻 lungonggong 论攻攻 lungonggong 论功功 lungonggong 论公公 lungonggong伦攻攻 lungonggong伦功功 lungonggong伦公公 lungonggong打倒倒 beat downdown民运运 democratic movementmovement六四四 june forthforth台独独 Taiwan independenceindependences party民主民 democracypeople专政政 politics 大法法 dafafa弟子弟 dicipledi 台湾独立湾 Taiwan independencewan藏独藏 Tibetan independencetibet西藏独立藏 Tibetan independencetibet疆独疆 jiang independencejiang新疆独立疆 xinjiang independencejiang警察察 policecha民警警 people°Øs policejing公安公 gong°Øangong 革命命 revolutionming武警警 military policejing 腐败腐 corruptionfu城管管 city managementguan暴动暴 insurrectionbo暴乱乱 riotdisorder 文字狱狱 censorship jailjail宋祖英英 song zuyingying天安门门 tian anmendoor自焚焚 burn oneselfburn
The Words
falun：法轮 falundafa：法轮大法 flg：法轮功 freechina：自由中国 freedom：自由freenet：自由网 多党党 multiple partie真善忍忍 truthful,kind and toleranttolarant明慧慧 minghuihui大法法 dafafa洪志志 hongzhizhi红志志 hongzhizhi洪智智 hongzhizhi红智智 hongzhizhi法轮轮 falunlun法论论 falunlun法沦沦 falunlun 法伦伦 falunlun 发轮轮 falunlun 发论论 falunlun 发沦沦 falunlun 发伦伦 falunlun 轮功功 lungonggong 轮公公 lungonggong 轮攻攻 lungonggong 沦功功 lungonggong 沦公公 lungonggong 沦攻攻 lungonggong 论攻攻 lungonggong 论功功 lungonggong 论公公 lungonggong伦攻攻 lungonggong伦功功 lungonggong伦公公 lungonggong打倒倒 beat downdown民运运 democratic movementmovement六四四 june forthforth台独独 Taiwan independenceindependences party民主民 democracypeople专政政 politics 大法法 dafafa弟子弟 dicipledi 台湾独立湾 Taiwan independencewan藏独藏 Tibetan independencetibet西藏独立藏 Tibetan independencetibet疆独疆 jiang independencejiang新疆独立疆 xinjiang independencejiang警察察 policecha民警警 people°Øs policejing公安公 gong°Øangong 革命命 revolutionming武警警 military policejing 腐败腐 corruptionfu城管管 city managementguan暴动暴 insurrectionbo暴乱乱 riotdisorder 文字狱狱 censorship jailjail宋祖英英 song zuyingying天安门门 tian anmendoor自焚焚 burn oneselfburn
Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Falun Gong are Sticking it to Hu.
Firewall, Schmirewall. Where there is a will, there is a way and the Falun Gong are proving that time and time again. The Chinese Communist government has for years been trying to squash the Falun Gong. Their returns have been bad press, technologies that fail, and a label of the most murdering government in history. Now, the Falun Gong are fighting back and fighting mad.
Visit the story link, there are several anti-jamming tools for download and portals to use.
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Four world-leading companies in Internet anti-jamming technologies reached an agreement today that starts full-scale cooperation in their technology and business operations. The four companies are the World’s Gate, Inc., the Dynamic Internet Technology, Inc., the UltraReach Internet Corp, and the Garden Networks for Freedom of Information Inc.
Internet users in China are unable to access blocked overseas web sites without outside help from the free world. Several companies, including the above four, have successfully developed and implemented technologies (anti-jamming services, also known as anti-blockade services) to enable Chinese users to break through the blockade and access overseas web sites.
“Funding of these anti-blockade tools and services, in addition to the income from various service contracts, comes from donations and in-kind contributions in different forms from people from all walks of life. Many talented people work for these companies as volunteers,” said Mr. Bill Xia, President of the Dynamic Internet Technology, Inc.
Visit the story link, there are several anti-jamming tools for download and portals to use.
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Four world-leading companies in Internet anti-jamming technologies reached an agreement today that starts full-scale cooperation in their technology and business operations. The four companies are the World’s Gate, Inc., the Dynamic Internet Technology, Inc., the UltraReach Internet Corp, and the Garden Networks for Freedom of Information Inc.
Internet users in China are unable to access blocked overseas web sites without outside help from the free world. Several companies, including the above four, have successfully developed and implemented technologies (anti-jamming services, also known as anti-blockade services) to enable Chinese users to break through the blockade and access overseas web sites.
“Funding of these anti-blockade tools and services, in addition to the income from various service contracts, comes from donations and in-kind contributions in different forms from people from all walks of life. Many talented people work for these companies as volunteers,” said Mr. Bill Xia, President of the Dynamic Internet Technology, Inc.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
HU's Chinese Hackers Attack the U.S.
In the never ending saga of Chinese Hackers attacking the U.S. we get another news story. Yet, for all the concern over what the Chinese are doing to our infrastructure, the popular media is more likely to cover stories on who Fathered Anna Nicole's baby. Why this would be more important than a foreign government attack the U.S. is beyond me. I can see it now, once the Chinese take over the U.S. they will import their brand of law... how many Americans will get their livers harvested for being Christians? Unbelievable!!!!!!
Security News
20 February 2007
Attacks by Chinese hackers on US military computer infrastructure have reached the level of sustained cyber-warfare, and are likely to be government-backed, a senior US Navy official said last week.
"They will exploit anything and everything," the official said, according to the report. The attacks are so deliberate that "it's hard to believe it's not government-driven".
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Defence admitted its systems have been penetrated at least nine times since 2002, with five of the successful attacks taking place last year.
Beginning in 2003, US defence agencies have been the target of a series of intrusions, code-named Titan Rain, that was traced to a team of researchers in Guangdong Province. Titan Rain was first reported publicly in 2005
Security News
20 February 2007
Attacks by Chinese hackers on US military computer infrastructure have reached the level of sustained cyber-warfare, and are likely to be government-backed, a senior US Navy official said last week.
"They will exploit anything and everything," the official said, according to the report. The attacks are so deliberate that "it's hard to believe it's not government-driven".
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Defence admitted its systems have been penetrated at least nine times since 2002, with five of the successful attacks taking place last year.
Beginning in 2003, US defence agencies have been the target of a series of intrusions, code-named Titan Rain, that was traced to a team of researchers in Guangdong Province. Titan Rain was first reported publicly in 2005
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Chinese Penetration of American National Assets
China continues it's covert operations against American interests; America Sleeps, Hands tied.
Chinas Secret Weapon
February 16, 2007:
The U.S. government has a growing problem with China's covert Cyber War against the United States. ...the action out of China is looking for military and technological secrets, data on how American military networks operate.
There are also attempts to plant special "time bomb" software that could be used in wartime. China is quite open about its intention to use surprise and deception in any future war with the United States.
So what does the U.S. government do, as the evidence against the Chinese builds up? No public statements are being made, but it is known that American Cyber War forces are studying the Chinese attacks carefully, nosing around in China as well, and preparing new Cyber War weapons.
At the same time, current laws prohibit many Cyber War techniques needed to thoroughly track enemy attacks (wiretaps, privacy and all that). So the Chinese move forward with their not-so-secret secret plan for making war via the Internet.
Chinas Secret Weapon
February 16, 2007:
The U.S. government has a growing problem with China's covert Cyber War against the United States. ...the action out of China is looking for military and technological secrets, data on how American military networks operate.
There are also attempts to plant special "time bomb" software that could be used in wartime. China is quite open about its intention to use surprise and deception in any future war with the United States.
So what does the U.S. government do, as the evidence against the Chinese builds up? No public statements are being made, but it is known that American Cyber War forces are studying the Chinese attacks carefully, nosing around in China as well, and preparing new Cyber War weapons.
At the same time, current laws prohibit many Cyber War techniques needed to thoroughly track enemy attacks (wiretaps, privacy and all that). So the Chinese move forward with their not-so-secret secret plan for making war via the Internet.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Chinese Assassin's Mace
Another surprisingly quite fact about the Chinese Military and Chinese Intelligence: They are knee deep in the U.S. critical infrastructure and electronic backbone. The threat may no longer be from outside, but what they have left inside. Think of it as a front company within the U.S. electronic system. There is sits, working fine...seemingly a normal bit of software until the Mother-ship calls upon it to begin destroying U.S. networks. You can almost hear the clock ticking...tic..tic..tic.
Published on Feb. 13, 2007
NORFOLK, Va. -- At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against Defense Department networks, Netwarcom officials said.
Attacks coming from China, probably with government support, far outstrip other attackers in terms of volume, proficiency and sophistication, said a senior Netwarcom official, who spoke to reporters on background Feb 12. The conflict has reached the level of a campaign-style, force-on-force engagement, he said.
The motives of Chinese hackers run the gamut, including technology theft, intelligence gathering, exfiltration, research on DOD operations and the creation of dormant presences in DOD networks for future action, the official said.
Chinese hackers were responsible for an intrusion in November 2006 that disabled the Naval War College’s network, forcing the college to shut down its e-mail and computer systems for several weeks, the official said. Forensic analysis showed that the Chinese were seeking information on war games in development at NWC, the official said.
Published on Feb. 13, 2007
NORFOLK, Va. -- At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against Defense Department networks, Netwarcom officials said.
Attacks coming from China, probably with government support, far outstrip other attackers in terms of volume, proficiency and sophistication, said a senior Netwarcom official, who spoke to reporters on background Feb 12. The conflict has reached the level of a campaign-style, force-on-force engagement, he said.
The motives of Chinese hackers run the gamut, including technology theft, intelligence gathering, exfiltration, research on DOD operations and the creation of dormant presences in DOD networks for future action, the official said.
Chinese hackers were responsible for an intrusion in November 2006 that disabled the Naval War College’s network, forcing the college to shut down its e-mail and computer systems for several weeks, the official said. Forensic analysis showed that the Chinese were seeking information on war games in development at NWC, the official said.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Exposed: Chinese Black Operations On U.S. Soil
Sounds like the stuff movies are made out of. Spend a little time reading the headlines and it wont take you long to understand there is a greater chance that not that Chinese operatives are working their MOJO on U.S. soil.
For now, their hostile operations seem to be directed at dissidents such as the Uigurs and Falun Gong. Of course, read through my previous posts and you'll get a good history of their U.S. based operations respective of Front Companies, Economic Espionage, Political Influence, and Theft of Sensitive U.S. Technology.
In an interesting article, Forbes outlines a number of Chinese black operations. With black operations comes, sleeper cells, safe houses, and spys..... the stuff spy movies are made of. Sexy stuff huh?
FORBES
Overseas Falun Gong practitioners are, for example, leading an underground campaign to hack China's Internet firewalls to counter the Chinese Communist Party's news blackout and propaganda in the Middle Kingdom. But there are many skirmishes between Chinese communism and Chinese spiritualism taking place on U.S. soil.
Last year, however, Falun Gong practitioners worldwide were themselves barraged with harassing phone calls, including death threats. Some of these campaigns involved hours of continuous and simultaneous ringing of work and home phones and private cell phones.
A few days before the July 1999 crackdown in China, Falun Gong Web sites in Canada and the U.S. began to crash. According to Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China, a Falun Gong practitioner in Washington traced the "denial of service" hacker attacks through an Asia-Pacific Internet registry, to No. 14 East Chang'an Street, Beijing, where China's Ministry of Public Security is located.
The Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong followers is allegedly run by the notorious Office 6-10, a specially created unit that has overseen a terror campaign, which survivors say includes mass arrests, imprisonment in labor camps, brainwashing, torture and, in some cases, murder, for all those who failed to renounce their allegiance to Falun Gong.
For now, their hostile operations seem to be directed at dissidents such as the Uigurs and Falun Gong. Of course, read through my previous posts and you'll get a good history of their U.S. based operations respective of Front Companies, Economic Espionage, Political Influence, and Theft of Sensitive U.S. Technology.
In an interesting article, Forbes outlines a number of Chinese black operations. With black operations comes, sleeper cells, safe houses, and spys..... the stuff spy movies are made of. Sexy stuff huh?
FORBES
Overseas Falun Gong practitioners are, for example, leading an underground campaign to hack China's Internet firewalls to counter the Chinese Communist Party's news blackout and propaganda in the Middle Kingdom. But there are many skirmishes between Chinese communism and Chinese spiritualism taking place on U.S. soil.
Last year, however, Falun Gong practitioners worldwide were themselves barraged with harassing phone calls, including death threats. Some of these campaigns involved hours of continuous and simultaneous ringing of work and home phones and private cell phones.
A few days before the July 1999 crackdown in China, Falun Gong Web sites in Canada and the U.S. began to crash. According to Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China, a Falun Gong practitioner in Washington traced the "denial of service" hacker attacks through an Asia-Pacific Internet registry, to No. 14 East Chang'an Street, Beijing, where China's Ministry of Public Security is located.
The Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong followers is allegedly run by the notorious Office 6-10, a specially created unit that has overseen a terror campaign, which survivors say includes mass arrests, imprisonment in labor camps, brainwashing, torture and, in some cases, murder, for all those who failed to renounce their allegiance to Falun Gong.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Chinese Attack: Is this the work of Chinese Intelligence?
What's really going on here? The average Chinese citizen cannot move about the Internet without strict monitoring. Anyone attempting to hack from within China will immediately catch the attention of the CHICOM's great Firewall. Yet, we see unrelenting cyber attacks on sensitive U.S. computer systems. How could this be? The AVERAGE citizen is restricted from such activities, but those granted permission to attack the U.S. are given free access. Who can grant a person or group access around the firewall? Who has the ability to get around the firewall? The CCP of course....the question is: who in the Chinese government is behind the well planned and directed attack: Chinese Military, Chinese Intelligence, Chinese Cyber Army?????
APPSENSE SECURITY
The cyber attacks on the Critical National Infrastructures of the US and UK, originating from inside China have hit the headlines again. This time they appear to be targeted against one specific agency within the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The BIS is involved in the regulation of the export of sensitive goods and technologies as well as enforcing export control and anti-boycott laws. The targeting of this organization is in some ways not surprising, it is responsible for the prevention of the exportation of military technology to China.
The exact method used for this attack has not been publicised, but there have been strong suggestions that this involved carefully researched e-mails and possibly Trojans. This involved the Chinese group sending e-mails apparently from internal e-mail address to various government employees. The subject and content of these mails were deliberately chosen. The careful research mentioned above allowed the mails to be targeted in such a way that the victim would be more inclined to trust the mail and any attachment to it.
The same method of researched e-mails would also work if malicious websites were being used to exploit some vulnerability in Internet Explorer, as was seen recently with the VML based exploitation. There have been reports of Web sites registered on Chinese Internet service providers hosting malware with Rootkit capabilities. It is likely that this is true as the BSI has admitted that they are not attempting to repair any computers perceived to be infected. Instead wholly new machines are being used to replace these.
This is the latest in a long line of attempts to spy on other areas of the Government and infrastructure which were traced back to China. The, so called, Titan Rain attacks used some similar techniques as did the attack on the United Kingdom government at the start of 2006. This one used the, at the time, unpatched vulnerability in WMF rendering. This involved e-mails containing information apparently about a secret rendezvous being sent to around 70 members of the UK parliament as well as other staff in the British Government.
The levels of complexity and preparation involved in these attacks may mean they are the first things to warrant the, massively over hyped, name of cyber warfare.
APPSENSE SECURITY
The cyber attacks on the Critical National Infrastructures of the US and UK, originating from inside China have hit the headlines again. This time they appear to be targeted against one specific agency within the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The BIS is involved in the regulation of the export of sensitive goods and technologies as well as enforcing export control and anti-boycott laws. The targeting of this organization is in some ways not surprising, it is responsible for the prevention of the exportation of military technology to China.
The exact method used for this attack has not been publicised, but there have been strong suggestions that this involved carefully researched e-mails and possibly Trojans. This involved the Chinese group sending e-mails apparently from internal e-mail address to various government employees. The subject and content of these mails were deliberately chosen. The careful research mentioned above allowed the mails to be targeted in such a way that the victim would be more inclined to trust the mail and any attachment to it.
The same method of researched e-mails would also work if malicious websites were being used to exploit some vulnerability in Internet Explorer, as was seen recently with the VML based exploitation. There have been reports of Web sites registered on Chinese Internet service providers hosting malware with Rootkit capabilities. It is likely that this is true as the BSI has admitted that they are not attempting to repair any computers perceived to be infected. Instead wholly new machines are being used to replace these.
This is the latest in a long line of attempts to spy on other areas of the Government and infrastructure which were traced back to China. The, so called, Titan Rain attacks used some similar techniques as did the attack on the United Kingdom government at the start of 2006. This one used the, at the time, unpatched vulnerability in WMF rendering. This involved e-mails containing information apparently about a secret rendezvous being sent to around 70 members of the UK parliament as well as other staff in the British Government.
The levels of complexity and preparation involved in these attacks may mean they are the first things to warrant the, massively over hyped, name of cyber warfare.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
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!
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!
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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.
* 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.
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