Which one? Georgie or Dickson. All the same CCP-bootlicking 货色.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeo_Jun_Wei
This Dickson Yeo character is quite interesting. I am quite puzzled as to why he will help the CCP so much.
As a People's Republic of China agent
Being recruited
While still receiving education at LKYSPP, Yeo made a presentation on
Southeast Asia'spolitical situation at
Beijing in 2015 and was approached by individuals who claimed to be China-based think tanks.
[16] They offered him money in exchange for political reports.
[16] Yeo later learnt that at least four of these individuals were Chinese intelligence officers. One of the intelligence officers later offered Yeo a contract to work with the
People's Liberation Army. Yeo refused to sign the contract, but he continued to assist and work for the intelligence service.
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Between 2015 and 2019, Yeo had made frequent trips to China, meeting different operatives for at least 40 times.
[a] In each trip, he would be processed in a separate office, away from the custom lines upon arrival to conceal his identity.
[16] Yeo would also maintain communications with the officers via
WeChat, through by changing different WeChat accounts and phones each time they communicated.
[16] However, when Yeo was in United States, he was instructed not to communicate with the intelligence officers over concerns that their communications would be intercepted.
[16] If need be, he would email them from a local coffee shop.
[16] Yeo was also issued with a bank card to facilitate payments to his targets.
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Information gathering efforts
Yeo was tasked by the intelligence officers to provide them with information about international political, economic and diplomatic relations, and these pieces of information were to be of "non-public" in origin, and were referred to as "
scuttlebutt".
[16]In one of his meetings with the intelligence officers in China, he was specified to obtain non-public information about the U.S. Department of Commerce, artificial intelligence, and the
Trump administration's trade war with China.
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Yeo's focus was initially Southeast Asian centric, but subsequently was switched to United States. By combing through
LinkedIn,
[19][20] Yeo found Americans, including U.S. military and government employees with high-level security clearances, with resumes and job descriptions suggesting that they would have access to valuable non-public information which the Chinese intelligence officers seek. After he identified individuals worth targeting, Yeo followed guidance he received from Chinese intelligence operatives regarding target recruitment methods, including identifying their vulnerabilities, such as dissatisfaction with work or financial difficulties. Yeo then solicited them for non-public information and paid them to write reports. Yeo told these American targets that the reports were for clients in Asia, without revealing that they were in fact destined for the Chinese government.
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In 2018, Yeo created a fake consulting company that used the same name as a prominent U.S. consulting firm that conducted public and government relations, and Yeo posted job advertisements under that company name.
[7][16] He would receive more than 400 resumes,
[16] with 90 percent of them coming from U.S. military and government personnel with security clearances, and he passed resumes of interest to one of the Chinese intelligence operatives.
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Between January 2019 and July 2019, Yeo stayed in
Washington, D.C. where he attended several events and speaking engagements at D.C. area think tanks. Yeo also contacted several individuals from lobbying firms and defence contracting companies.
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Successful recruitment of individuals
Yeo managed to successfully recruit multiple United States citizens to provide him with information.
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In 2015, through LinkedIn, Yeo spotted and contacted a civilian who was working with
United States Air Force on the
F-35B military aircraft programme. The civilian held high-level security clearance, and was having financial trouble. Yeo had him write a report. The civilian also provided additional information about the geopolitical implications of the Japanese purchasing F-35 aircraft from the US which Yeo used to draft a report for his Chinese contacts.
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In response to the job posting that Yeo had posted for his fake consulting company, a
United States Army officer had sent in his resume. The officer was assigned to the
Pentagon which was US Army's headquarters at that time. Yeo contacted the officer via a social networking app, and had met him on multiple occasions. The officer confided in Yeo that he was traumatised by his military tours in
Afghanistan. Yeo asked him to write reports for clients in Korea and other Asian countries, and withheld the fact that it would be read by a foreign government. The officer wrote a report on how the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan would impact China, which Yeo paid $2,000. The money was made to the officer's wife's account.
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Between 2018 and 2019, Yeo spotted another individual on LinkedIn who was employed at the US Department of State at the time.
[16]This individual felt dissatisfied at work and was having financial trouble, worrying about his upcoming retirement. Despite his misgivings about jeopardising his retirement pension if it was made known that he had provided Yeo a report, he wrote a report about a then-serving member of the
Cabinet of the United States, and was paid $1,000 or $2,000.
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