Even FBI Agents and a Congressman Were Taken In ... Chinese Female Spy Cases Resurface Amid Jensen Huang Scandal

[Financial News] Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA Corporation, has admitted to having an affair with a woman suspected of being a spy for Chinese intelligence, bringing renewed attention to past cases in the United States involving Chinese women accused of espionage.
According to Yonhap News and other foreign media on the 9th (local time), a prominent example is the “double agent” case involving Chinese-American businesswoman Katrina Leung in the 1980s.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recruited Leung as an informant in 1982, taking into account her close ties to senior Chinese officials.
The FBI reportedly assigned Leung a codename and gave her operational funds totaling $1.7 million over 18 years.
However, Leung had affairs with two FBI agents, obtained classified information and passed it on to the Chinese side.
Warnings circulated within the FBI that Leung was leaking classified information, but the agent handling her case, who was having an affair with her, ignored them. Leung was not arrested until 2003.
In the 2010s, the case of Christine Fang, a Chinese national, came to light.
Fang, who was president of the Chinese student association at California State University, East Bay, approached an up-and-coming politician through political fundraising events.
Fang reportedly built a relationship with former U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (Democrat, California) dating back to when he was a city council member.
Swalwell entered Congress in 2012 and went on to serve on the House Intelligence Committee. He reportedly had an inappropriate relationship with Fang during that period. Fang fled to China in 2015 after the FBI launched an investigation.
In 2024, Linda Sun, a former deputy chief of staff to the governor of New York, was arrested by law enforcement authorities on suspicion of acting as an “agent of the Chinese government.”
Prosecutors charged Sun with obstructing an attempt by a representative of the Taiwanese government to meet with U.S. officials while she was working for the state government, and with trying to arrange a visit to China by a senior New York State official.
Sun denies the charges, and her trial is expected to resume next year.

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