Were these six Chinese trespassers confused tourists or spies? The FBI wants to know.

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/were-these-six-chinese-trespassers-confused-tourists-or-spies-fbi-n1140496

FBI counterintelligence agents are probing whether the spate of incidents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club and a military site might be part of a coordinated espionage effort.


President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on April 18, 2018.Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images file

Feb. 23, 2020, 7:05 AM EST

By Anna Schecter and Tom Winter

On a Wednesday afternoon in mid-December, a Chinese woman entered the grounds of President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida through a service entrance and snapped photos on her cell phone. “Who is Mar-a-Lago?” she said in court following her arrest.

Eight days later, a Chinese student walked around a perimeter fence at a U.S. Naval base in Key West, taking pictures of government buildings. Stopped by police, he said he was trying to capture images of the sunrise.

And nine days after that, two more Chinese students drove past a guard at the same Naval base. When stopped by security 30 minutes later, they voluntarily displayed the videos and photos they took of the base.

Were the incidents isolated cases of tourists mistakenly taking photos in sensitive locations? Or could some or all of the individuals be part of a spy operation run out of Beijing?

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[safeinOhio]

1. China may be way better at espionage

than Russia and less likely to brag about it. Just hope they won't bend toward Tramp.

[SharonClark]

2. Spys

Des Moines Register 10/5/16. . .
"A Chinese businessman who pleaded guilty in a plot to steal trade secrets from U.S. agriculture companies will spend three years in prison.

Mo Hailong, 47, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to steal trade secrets from Pioneer and Monsanto. The crime was part of a years-long conspiracy involving several Chinese citizens aimed at stealing valuable patented corn seeds from Iowa farm fields so they could be smuggled to a Chinese agriculture conglomerate."

[superpatriotman]

3. It's out of the way

You have to seek it out to find it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. K&R