Via the Navy Times- The Strange Case of LCDR Lin

When Navy Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin was first arrested at the Honolulu airport in 2015 on a flight to China, military investigators thought they had uncovered an espionage case of epic proportions – a Mandarin-speaking Asian-American military officer accused of leaking highly sensitive U.S. military secrets to Chinese and Taiwanese officials. After two days of…

When Navy Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin was first arrested at the Honolulu airport in 2015 on a flight to China, military investigators thought they had uncovered an espionage case of epic proportions – a Mandarin-speaking Asian-American military officer accused of leaking highly sensitive U.S. military secrets to Chinese and Taiwanese officials.

After two days of intense interrogation, Lin confessed to telling a recently retired Taiwanese naval officer and others some highly classified details about the U.S. Navy’s weapons programs, including the Long Range Anti-ship Missile under development, the high-speed rail gun and the Laser Weapon System being tested in the Persian Gulf, according to statements made at a recent motion hearing in a courtroom in Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

Read the whole thing. It’s very intriguing. For instance, he’s a SIGINT guy, but the information he’s accused of compromising has nothing to do with intel.

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Responses to “Via the Navy Times- The Strange Case of LCDR Lin”

  1. KenH

    How does a Signals Intelligence guy, get access to highly classified weapons systems programs??
    THAT, should be the question they asking as well

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  2. Casey

    What access? From the article I read his stuff was open source.
    Apparently his biggest “crime” was failure to report his continuing contact with Taiwanese officials.

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  3. Krag

    Open source? Doesn’t –
    “…some highly classified details about the U.S. Navy’s weapons programs…”
    from the quote above mean not open-source?

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  4. Falcon Fixer

    “90% to 95%, maybe even 99% of what someone would think is secret is available at a good public library. The keys are; how good the library is, and knowing where to look.”
    Not sure where or when I read this, but I think it was R. A. Heinlein.

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