Fourth World War: Chinese spy trashed 'Blue Team' skeptics: "Ronald Montaperto, the veteran Defense Intelligence Agency officer who spied for communist China, also served as an agent of influence to destroy the credibility of scholars and policymakers who saw the PRC as a threat to national security.
As a member of the Blue Team that follows Beijing's military and intelligence operations, this blogger saw firsthand how Montaperto would malign the arguments, presentations, facts, credibility and integrity of US intelligence officers and mid-level officials who warned of PRC intentions and capabilities.
Montaperto was so pro-Beijing that Blue Team members half-joked among themselves that if he wasn't a recruited agent of the PRC, he at least acted like one."
This is another time when I'm cribbing a whole (small) post. however, if you follow the link and return to Waller's site, he's got a lot more on Montaperto.
Might explain the VIPs, too--working for another team.
ReplyDeleteThere was some sort of Blue Team shake-up during the first GWB term, that involved an uncovering of a systematic misrepresentation of the PRC military.
ReplyDeleteI assumed it had to do with the whole Win Ho Lee/Janet Reno/Los Alamos, Riady, Ice-Tea, Buddhist Fundraiser, Johnny Huang, Sandy Berger's Mandarin consulting service website, et cetera, complex of doings centered around shaving that generation off the PRC ICBM sub fleet.
It's probably not true that the first sub, detected a couple years ago and ten years before expected, is nicknamed the "Birr Crinton".
It's probably not true that the first sub, detected a couple years ago and ten years before expected, is nicknamed the "Birr Crinton".
ReplyDelete... if only because that's a Japanese accent.
No no--remember: "Maline, You Die!"?
ReplyDeleteJapanese can say L but not R, Chinese R but not L. I think.
STY
ReplyDeleteThe west has always underestimated the Chinese. So Bill just saw them as another source of revenue.
ReplyDeleteVietnam, in bow to reality of politics, puts Dung in Prime Minister's office:
ReplyDelete"The polished 56-year-old Dung, meanwhile, has been marked for top leadership for the past decade...."
ReplyDeleteNope, it's Chinese do L and Japanese do R. So a guy named Lin Ch'i in China gets called Rinzai by the Japanese.
ReplyDeletePunchline quiz: "Now I am an American --- you gleek plick."
Interesting link Buddy. The irony will be rich when one day the US signs a mutual defense treaty with Vietnam. Allies against Chinese hegemony.
ReplyDeleteWell, VN is basically in the WTO now, and you're right, that'll be the irony of ironies. USN back in Cam Ranh Bay. Neither side will ever be able to figure who won that war.
ReplyDeleteSTY, you may be right--but what about "Maline"? Is that just Norman Mailer or something?
Gleek plick--you got me--where from?
ReplyDeleteCounter quiz:
What is nationality of the newly-arrived Asian in Frisco bank exchanging for dollars: he's complaining he got shorted, and bank teller keeps repeating "It's the currency fluctuations!"
Finally Asian guy gets mad and hollers "Oh yeah? Well, it's the currency fluc you Amelicans, too!"
tough room.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Greek guy with a restaurant next door to a Chinese restaurant. (It's also an old joke, old enough to date from when Chinese couldn't be naturalized.)
ReplyDeleteThe Greek guy makes fun of the Chinese guy because he can't be naturalized. Then the law is changed, and the Chinese guy tells the Greek can "Now I am Amelican too!"
Then the Greek guys makes fun of the Chinese guy because he can't say "American". So after months of practice....
Har--good one. Mine needs shaping: "Maybe someday currency flucs you Amelicans, too!"
ReplyDeleteBack to the drawing board--he can't say "currency". guess it has to be 'told', not written.
ReplyDeleteThis is identical to Ana Belen Montes, another DIA official caught
ReplyDeletespying for Cuba, which helped write
assessments that downgraded the Cuba threat. Which makes us wonder
are there counterparts to Monpierto
and Montes, flacking the Iranian,
Saudi viewpoint