U.S. Naval Flight Officer Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin Accused of Giving U.S. Secrets to China

[Freda'sMom]

A U.S. naval flight officer with an extensive signals intelligence background was accused by the service of passing secrets to China, USNI News has learned.

Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, who served on some of the Navy’s most sensitive intelligence gathering aircraft, faces several counts of espionage and other charges outlined during a Friday Article 32 hearing in Norfolk, Va.

Lin, originally a Taiwanese national before his family moved to the U.S., had a career as a signals intelligence specialist on the Navy’s Lockheed Martin EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance aircraft, several sources confirmed to USNI News.

Several sources familiar with the case told USNI News the country to which Lin passed secrets was China, however, few other details are known about the case given much of the evidence is classified

Speechless.

 

[Physicsguru]

Accused =/= convicted. The court-martial should be interesting, though we'll never know the whole tale.

 

[cga82]

Freda'sMom and all, I believe that this dove tales with past history. Hopefully this isn't too boring and informative .

For those who are unfamiliar with "The John Walker Spy Ring" here's a look. This Recent Intelligence Breach may be worse than the "Walker Spy Ring" causing major changes to the way of doing operations/ lives at risk.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...p9KRvC2HZrgmW3fAA&sig2=64jHNGSaDYgE2SB2-sutxQ

The EP-3E Aries II is an intelligence gatherer and the Chinese were very glad to get their hands on one. They did (what they stole -who knows) but it happened in 2001 at a place named the "Hainan Island". LT Osborn has a book out about the "The Hainan Incident" and a recommended read. Although, much has changed since then-the Aries platform was compromised in 2001 (See below), we now have LCDR Lin's problem to deal with now.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...yE10uCYHv1sYTofkg&sig2=4YHsMoennhoGK3TMhdP10Q


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...YxrPPaELaStT6xqVw&sig2=tu8Uc990TeQfUmcGx-HyEA


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...Tgq89_3ZMFQXIufUQ&sig2=ikY6ZMAfOHi47Q81bJBmQA