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 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.

Comments

[KenH]

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

[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.

[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?

[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.