$16,500 in Undeclared Cash

[Randy W]

in the SCMP

 

US man may face execution, accused of sending secrets to Chinese spies with illicit communications device

Former US agent Kevin Mallory was allegedly caught with undeclared stacks of cash after a trip to Shanghai, where he is accused of meeting suspected Chinese spies who gave him secret device to send documents

 

 

 

According to the affidavit, Mallory traveled to Shanghai in April, and was interviewed by Customs agents at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after he failed to declare US$16,500 in cash found in two carry-on bags.

 

The FBI interviewed him the next month, and he admitted that he met with two people from a Chinese think-tank, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, that he now believed were Chinese intelligence agents. He said they had given him a special communications device for transmitting documents.

According to the affidavit, Mallory told the FBI agents that the only documents he transferred were two unclassified “white papers” he had written on US policy matters, for which he said he was paid US$25,000.

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An analysis of the documents on the device found four classified documents, including three with a Top Secret classification.