(CBS) “60 Minutes” has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash. The video, which has never been made public before, offers a rare glimpse into the secretive world of espionage and illustrates how China’s spying may now pose the biggest espionage threat to the U.S. China may be the number-one espionage threat now. “The Chinese are the biggest problem we have with respect to the level of effort that they’re devoting against us, versus the level of attention we are giving to them,” says Michelle Van Cleave, once America’s top counter-intelligence officer who coordinated the hunt for foreign spies from 2003 to 2006.
“Definitely, without a doubt,” the Chinese focus most of their espionage on the U.S., says Fengzhi Li, who once recruited spies for China’s Ministry of State Security and is now in the U.S. seeking asylum. In the videotape obtained by “60 Minutes”, Gregg Bergersen, a civilian Pentagon worker with a high-security clearance, is shown taking money, about $2,000, from the Chinese spy, Tai Shen Kuo.
I hope it was worth the 2,000 dollars, schmuck.
Why would a surveillance camera switch between two different camera views like this one did? The money placement in the pocket seemed rigged, like over-obvious……where is the “BS-meter alert” on this story? There is something “fishy” about this whole thing.
We have the technology.
I agree Rabid. Why do they need spies anyway? We gave them our economy already.
Just proves that “high-security clearance” and “secret” clearance is just worth the paper it was written on.
#1 – Rabid_Monkey – Why would a surveillance camera switch between two different camera views like this one did?
It’s called editing.
NICE camera work..
GREAt audio work..
I hope this is a reenactment..
Or even a setup..
HOW to place 2 HIGH quality cameras in a car, and NOT let them be seen??
#3 Grandpa said “I agree Rabid. Why do they need spies anyway? We gave them our economy already.”
They are like our Washington politicians, they want the power. Maybe the limos and the rest of the BS also, but for sure they want the power.
Does raise the “opportunity” to consider the role of “secrecy” in international relationships.
What exactly does it do?
Pro’s and Con’s to all I can think of including this issue and Grandpa kept his eye on the more important issue.
Religion, sports, sex scandals, espionage. Don’t let the passing Circus distract you.
#6, Some of the few constants in the Universe. Politicians will always crave more power, and government will always try to grow until it eats itself.
But there is no “threat” from China. If there were the Prez would be dealing with them. Just more Republican paranoia, stirring up hatred against non-whites.
Chill people.
Don’t they own us already? Come on I am sure we will be working for them sooner or later. Sometimes I wonder if that may not be a bad thing.
“#1 – Rabid_Monkey – Why would a surveillance camera switch between two different camera views like this one did?
It’s called editing.”
well even editing needs two different camera sources…it just seems “produced”
A show worth 1-2 watches is “Bait Car.”
Car theft in action with footage as produced as the subject clip.
Evidently, pin hole camera’s are hard to see if you aren’t specifically looking for them.
#1: Each camera has it’s own recorder. Are you with me on this?
Then the big man in the expensive room with all the blinky lights takes each recording and puts them down on a computer.
Can you grasp that? It’s like they’re two different strings of picture and sound. But because they were recording the same event at the same time, they have the same sound.
The big man moves them around until the sound on each one is on top of the other. You stop hearing two different sound “tracks” and you hear just the same sound from each in perfect—hang on, this is a difficult concept—”sync.”
Now the big man takes a piece of Number One, then a piece of Number Two, then back to Number One, and pretty soon it looks just like TV.
The big man could have shrunk each picture and put them side by side, but he chose to do it the way you see. See?
Next post: How brushes work with teeth.
Pretty much every mainland Chinese citizen living in the west is a potential, dormant or sourced.
#5: They’re like that tiny camera in your iPhone, only smaller.
They live in that little handle every car has above the door, but nobody uses.
Inside the handle is room for a camera, a very tiny director, a miniature executive producer, a miniscule audio person, an eensy weensy video tape operator, a microscopic rack of equipment and a wee network executive from the front office, whose job it is to offer “suggestions.”
#14: Pretty much like every Mormon has seven wives, and every Muslim is an antisemitic terrorist! Don’t even get me going on those bastards from Lichtenstein!
Sorry. The tooth story is going to have to wait. My ma called me.
LOL….ok…point taken…I get it…I just didn’t have audio for some reason….maybe my stereo was on wrong settings
Too bad they didn’t catch Bill Clinton on video when he traded the Chinese nuclear secrets for campaign contributions.
Clinton did get a presidential library out of the deal that looks appropriately like a house trailer. Maybe one day the Chinese will complete the transaction by making it ground zero.
#16. Those wacky, Lichtenstanians!