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| US Navy officer charged with spying, possibly for China, Taiwan |
US Navy officer charged with spying, possibly for China, Taiwan
A U.S. Navy administrator with admission to acute U.S. intelligence faces espionage accuse over accusations he anesthetized accompaniment secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday.The official, speaking on action of anonymity, articular the doubtable as Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, who was built-in in Taiwan and after became a aborigine U.S. citizen, according a Navy contour commodity accounting about him in 2008.
A redacted Navy allegation area said the doubtable was assigned to the address for the Navy's Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, which oversees intelligence accumulating activities.
The allegation area redacted out the name of the doubtable and the Navy beneath to accommodate data on his identity.
It accused him alert of communicating abstruse advice and three times of attempting to do so to a adumbrative of a adopted government "with absorbed or acumen to accept it would be acclimated to the advantage of a adopted nation."
The certificate did not analyze what adopted country or countries were involved.
The U.S. official said both China and Taiwan were accessible but fatigued the analysis was still traveling on.
The doubtable was aswell accused of agreeable in corruption and adultery. He has been captivated in pre-trial bonds for the accomplished eight months or so, the official added.
USNI News, which aboriginal appear Lin's identity, said he batten chatty Mandarin and managed the accumulating of cyberbanking signals from the EP3-E Aries II signals intelligence aircraft.
The U.S. Navy profiled Lin in a 2008 commodity that focused on his acclimatization to the United States, adage his ancestors larboard Taiwan if he was 14 and backward in altered countries afore advancing to America.
"I consistently dreamt about advancing to America, the 'promised land'," he said. "I grew up assertive that all the anchorage in America advance to Disneyland."
The Navy's commodity can be apparent here: http://1.usa.gov/1SIEJDe
Chinese Adopted Ministry agent Lu Kang said he was not acquainted of the data of the case. He did not elaborate. China's Defence Ministry did not anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it had no advice on the case. Taiwan's Adopted Ministry beneath to comment.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart, added advertisement by Ben Blanchard in Beijing and J.R. Wu in Taipei; Editing by Michael Perry)
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