He served a year in jail, and was set free. At a trial in Albuquerque, FBI agents lied, and prosecution again did a poor job. He was suspected of giving nuclear-related secrets to MSS. Then there's the well known case of Wen Ho Lee, a scientist at Los Alamos, in New Mexico. There was a trial of her and one of her FBI lovers, but the DOJ botched the case, and both got off with light punishment. But it eventually came to light that Leung also worked for the MSS, the Chinese equivalent of the CIA. intelligence officers got information from here, paying her over a million dollars. She was a prominent business woman in the LA area. Spies such as Katrina Leung, who had love affairs with two FBI Agents, and was a double agent, herself, for the Chinese and the FBI, are depicted here. Wise knows his territory, having done years of research and a 150 interviews. It's a good read, much like a suspense novel. In summing up "TIGER TRAP", Wise points out a common Chinese saying that describes what espionage itself is all about, which is - "There are no walls which completely block the wind."Īs far as nonfiction books on espionage and counterintelligence go, I'd place this one on the top rung. This was something I was first made aware of in the early 1980s when it was discovered that France had engaged in economic espionage in the U.S. For example, gaining economic advantages from producing and selling products and services in overseas markets. "TIGER TRAP" also reminded me of the fact that nations spy on each other for a host of reasons. This is a book that I would read again, because it taught me so much about the impact espionage has on society. "TIGER TRAP" is a book that I would recommend to anyone to read because it not only touches upon Chinese espionage efforts up to the 1990s, but also on the ongoing "cyber-spying" actions in today's world, which can pose a direct threat to our way of life. But the truth is that "Chin lived a double life in more ways than one.he was not only a Chinese spy - over the years Beijing paid him about a million dollars - he had multiple girlfriends, a penchant for sex toys, gambled tens of thousands of dollars in Las Vegas, and stored gold bullion in a bank account in Hong Kong." To his colleagues, he came across as a modest, quiet and unassuming person. citizen who served as a top translator for the CIA from the 1950s to 1981. There is also the case of Larry Wu-Tai Chin, a Chinese born U.S. security matters.) This aspect of Nixon's life (which the FBI became aware of in 1967) was largely kept under wraps. consulate in Hong Kong and be briefed about U.S. (Nixon, as a former Vice President, was entitled to visit the U.S. There in Hong Kong, he engaged in a relationship with a young bar hostess, Marianna Liu, with whom he may have been indiscreet by sharing state secrets with her. One story that the reader may find surprising is one that involves Richard Nixon, who, during the 1960s, would frequent Hong Kong in his capacity as a chief partner in a New York law firm. "TIGER TRAP" reads in many respects like a thriller, which speaks well to Wise's talents as a writer and his encyclopedic knowledge of his subject. government has at times felt compelled or given no other choice (because of shoddy investigative work by government lawyers and FBI agents) but to either let suspects off the hook or find them guilty of a lesser crime. That explains why in some high-level spy cases, the U.S. justice system has for proving a person or persons guilty of engaging in espionage. What was surprising for me to learn is the exceptionally high bar the U.S. Wise also points out the successes the FBI has had in uncovering Chinese espionage in the U.S. military had been infiltrated and at times, compromised. Frankly, I was surprised to learn how much, in certain respects, the CIA, FBI, the State Department, and several of our laboratories and companies that deal with weapons design, research and development for the U.S. and its methods of encouraging and grooming people to spy for China.Įach chapter in the book deals at length with a variety of Chinese espionage cases in the U.S. In "Tiger Trap" (the book's title comes from an FBI code name for a case it was investigating during the early 1990s that was centered on Gwo-bao Min, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, one of the top laboratories responsible for designing nuclear weapons, who was suspected of betraying critical nuclear secrets to China), Wise explains to the reader Beijing's approach to conducting espionage in the U.S. For anyone with either an interest in espionage cases or spy novels, " TIGER TRAP: America's Secret Spy War with China" is the book to read.
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