Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, speaks at a Judiciary Committee hearing on June 17, 2020
The latest revelation that beautiful Chinese Communist spy Fang Fang seduced a U.S. congressman is like a remake of a James Bond blockbuster: a beautiful young woman sets a romantic trap for a rising political star while reporting the intelligence she gathers to her boss. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the Chinese Communist Party’s global layout. Let’s listen to a former U.S. intelligence officer’s analysis of the sweet trap strategy used by the Chinese Communist Party to perfection.
Since the U.S. media broke the news that U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was caught up in the Chinese Communist Party’s female spygate, a number of Republican lawmakers, including Hawley, Cotton and McCarthy, have urged the House Intelligence Committee to expel her.
Fang Fang spied with credit and received a certificate from the Chinese Embassy.
Clearly, Swalwell is not the first or last political figure to fall into the sweet trap. Several former U.S. intelligence officials believe that the Chinese Communist Party has been in the United States for a long time and continues to be.
Daniel Hoffman, a retired senior CIA covert service officer, told Fox News, “I can say with a lot of confidence that there are a lot of these beautiful spies in the United States.”
A former Defense Department intelligence officer said the Chinese Communist Party sends out hundreds of beautiful spies, often attending top U.S. universities, speaking fluent English and using social media platforms such as Collage and Facebook to fish.
Their prey is not limited to big names, but also targets promising political upstarts.
Investigators also found that Fang Fang dated numerous up-and-coming politicians and had sexual relationships with at least two mayors between 2011 and 2015. The report said the Chinese Ministry of State Security sent Fang Fang to influence the rising political stars, with contacts at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.
In 2015, her “lover” Swalwell joined the federal House Intelligence Committee. With the FBI’s involvement, Fang abruptly fled the United States.
Unlike Fang, more spies do not have ties to Communist consulates, intelligence officials said.
“Their goal is to win the trust of their prey to gain information. They want to get every detail of their target prey’s personality and leadership style to build a profile. They want to make connections while they’re new to politics, knowing full well that it’s going to be very difficult to achieve their goals once these people become well known.” Hoffman said.
Del Wilber, a former intelligence officer, observed that the targets of beauty spies are almost always married men and occasionally gay women. Their goal is to get photos or videos of their inappropriate behavior to compromise them.
“Once blackmailed, the target will be told to cooperate or their scandalous behavior will be exposed, they will be forced to divorce, lose their government clearance and job, etc.”
Several former intelligence officials told Fox News that the CCP has perfected the “sweet trap” to the extreme, employing different tactics and skills to achieve different motives and objectives.
As a result, they targeted not only people like Swalwell, but also their immediate friends, aides, subordinates, interns, etc., to build a more comprehensive profile of “high-value targets.
The focus of a sweetheart trap is to gather information about the opponent’s illegal activities that can be used as leverage to coerce them later. The trap usually begins with the provision of funds or services to the campaign or troubled business and then steadily grows the relationship.
A former U.S. intelligence officer still working in national security revealed that the Chinese Communist Party has targeted spies for sex in past decades as top businessmen and professors at top laboratories across the United States, but in recent years has begun to prey on American politicians.
Spies themselves may be blackmailed
Jamie Williamson, founder and CEO of Global Executive Management, a former U.S. military counterintelligence expert, said the spies may not simply be there to make money, but sometimes they themselves are targeted for blackmail by authorities because their families are threatened in China.
Just shortly after President Nixon’s visit to China, the Chinese Communist Party’s techniques in the area of beauty spying became more systematic, and as China’s economy opened up, prostitution and promiscuity became increasingly public.
Back in the 1970s, Katrina Leung, a Chinese citizen who immigrated to New York, became an informant for the FBI. She was later revealed to have seduced FBI officials for 20 years, during which time she gathered intelligence for the top levels of the Chinese Communist Party, and was in fact a double agent for the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
Sweet Trap Around the World
Swalwell, who was captured by the beautiful spy, was only the tip of the iceberg. U.S. intelligence director John Ratcliffe wrote to the Wall Street Journal on Dec. 3, warning that the Chinese Communist Party is targeting dozens of U.S. congressmen and congressional aides for influence and that it is the greatest threat to the United States and the free world since World War II.
The recent Biden “Hard Drive” scandal also revealed that the hard drive contained massive amounts of photo, video and email evidence, including a trip to China by Democratic candidate Biden’s son, Hunter, who was filmed using drugs and pornography and was used as leverage for blackmail. Then-Vice President Joe Biden’s collusion with the Chinese Communist Party to sell out the country’s interests was considered a huge threat to national security.
U.S. officials believe that Beijing’s network of sweet traps has grown far beyond the United States to the globe.
The BBC analyzes that such espionage is usually carried out by provincial state security bureaus, such as the Shanghai bureau covering the United States, Beijing covering Russia and former Soviet republics, and Tianjin covering Japan and South Korea.
In early 2011, French intelligence police accused the Chinese Communist Party of deploying “beautiful spies” to steal trade secrets and blackmail. This included a Chinese spy having sex with a top French drug researcher and using the footage for blackmail.
A year ago, the British security agency M15 accused the Chinese Communist Party of leading a “sweet trap” plot to hack into the computer networks of British businesses. corporate executives that “Chinese Communist intelligence services use sexual relationships and illegal activities to get individuals to cooperate with them.”
Such warnings increase when U.S. and other Western officials visit China. Hoffman noted in particular that this anxiety was particularly evident in the run-up to the September 2016 G-20 summit in Hangzhou.
At one point, officials working with British Prime Minister May were also notified by government security experts to avoid Chinese spies offering sexual bribes at major diplomatic events. The sweet trap was also reportedly used to secure benefits for the Communist Chinese company Huawei in the UK.
In 2016, the newly appointed Dutch ambassador to Beijing also fell into the trap, despite his national security training. His phone was stolen and secrets were stolen from him by female spies.
“Communist spies are everywhere in the United States, and the only way to prevent them is through education and awareness.” Hoffman added, “Rather than saying no to comment, Swalwell should send out a public announcement to remind others to be vigilant.”
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