Reporter : Li Jiaxin
Editor : Dongye
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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Image : Information below about Yeo Jun Wei Dickson (middle) on the website of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore obtained by NTDTV. (Screenshot of the university website)
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Singaporean confessed on Friday (July 24) that he used his political consulting service company in the United States as a guise to collect data for the CCP’s intelligence services. intelligence. The Department of Justice accused him of engaging in illegal activities in the United States as a foreign agent.
The Singaporean citizen's name is Yeo Jun Wei Dickson. On Friday, he confessed to the U.S. Federal Court in Washington, DC that he was instructed by the CCP’s intelligence department to collect sensitive information for the CCP.
He admitted in his confession that between 2015 and 2019, he worked for the CCP’s intelligence department and used social media on professional websites to “discover and evaluate Americans who had access to valuable non-public information, including those with advanced security clearances. Of American military and government employees.”
According to court documents, Dickson Yeo paid these Americans with high-level security clearance (Security Clearance, or "eligibility to participate in confidentiality") to write reports. These reports were written to Dickson's Asian clients, but they were actually sent to the Chinese Communist government without their knowledge.
According to information provided by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy website of the National University of Singapore, Dickson is a doctoral student registered by the school in 2015 to study the CCP’s treatment framework for small countries participating in the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Court documents show that during his visit to Beijing in 2015, he gave a speech on the political situation in Southeast Asia and was recruited by CCP intelligence personnel.
In the following years, he traveled to mainland China many times to meet with the CCP’s agents, and enjoyed special treatment during his travels.
The CCP intelligence department asked Jun Wei to collect non-public information about the U.S. Department of Commerce, artificial intelligence, and the U.S.-China trade war, and even instructed him to create a fake consulting company in 2018.
Dickson acted on the instructions of the Chinese Communist Party and misappropriated the name of a well-known American consulting company, which was engaged in consulting services on public and government relations. On Dickson's LinkedIn profile page, he labeled his company "Resolute Consulting".
After the company was founded, he received more than 400 resumes, 90% of which came from US military and government employees with security clearances. He submitted to them some of the resumes that he thought would interest the CCP agents.
Between January and July 2019, he moved to Washington DC and participated in a number of think tank activities in order to build a network and recruit more people to write reports.
In November 2019, when he returned to the United States and tried to get a US military officer working at the Pentagon to provide more classified information, he was arrested.
Jun Wei targets those who are in financial difficulties and recruits them to work for him. According to court documents, the Americans recruited by Dickson included a civilian who was engaged in the F-35B fighter project in the US Air Force, a US military officer who served in Afghanistan, and an employee of the US State Department. Yeo Jun Wei paid US$1,000 to US$2,000 for each report, and the CCP agent gave him a bank card to pay for these reports.
Jun Wei was very careful when contacting the agents. CCP agents instructed him not to bring mobile phones and laptops when traveling to the United States, and not to contact them while in the United States, lest the U.S. government would intercept their information.
Outside the United States, he communicated with CCP agents through the Chinese app WeChat, and was told to use multiple mobile phones and change the WeChat account each time.
Yeo Jun Wei Dickson faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and will be sentenced on 9 October 2020.
Jun Wei pleaded guilty at a time when the US State Department closed the "Spy Center" in Houston. On the same day, the CCP military researcher Juan Tang (transliteration) was also forced to walk out of the CCP consulate in San Francisco (San Francisco) where she was hiding, and was arrested by US law enforcement officers for visa fraud.
John Demers, Assistant Secretary for National Security Affairs of the U.S. Department of Justice, stated, “The Chinese government uses a series of deceptive methods to obtain sensitive information from unsuspecting Americans. Yeo (Jun Wei) is such a plan. At the core, he used career websites and a fake consulting company to attract Americans who might be interested in the Chinese government. This is another example of the Chinese government's use of the openness of American society."
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