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Steve Bannon ally
+ Chinese fugitive,
Guo Wengui, 👈
aka Miles Kwok, 👈
sues over private espionage
deal gone bad.

Fight touches on
pair of think tanks,
senator’s widow +
capital’s tight-knit group of China hardliners
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
"2 perform
research + analytics
on numerous
Chinese Nationals
whom Guo + his undisclosed Chinese assocs
suspected 2 B engaged in activities in U.S.
+ elsewhere inconsistent w
their standing in Chinese Communist Party
+/or laws of U.S."
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
2018, Guo-linked firm hired
Strategic Vision, 👈
an obscure company led by
Washington-area executive
French Wallop, 👈
2 dig up info on several targets.

Wallop was 3rd wife of
Malcolm Wallop, 👈
late GOP senator from Wyoming.

washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…
J. Michael Waller 👈
Strategic Vision,
representative.

Waller isVP of far-right
Center 4 Security Policy, 👈
think tank founded by
Frank Gaffney,
NATSEC activist known 4
his conspiratorial hostility to Islam.

politico.com/story/2019/06/…
J. Michael Waller
ghostwriter 4 memoirs of
Blackwater founder
Erik Prince. 📌

politico.com/story/2019/06/…
10-22-2017

'China’s Pursuit of
Fugitive Businessman
Guo Wengui
Kicks Off Manhattan Caper
Worthy of Spy Thriller'

Beijing pressure 4
Guo’s return
sparks frantic response
from Trump admin
+ Penn Station, JFK airport standoffs'

1/3
wsj.com/articles/china…
10-22-2017

'China’s Pursuit of
Fugitive Businessman
Guo Wengui
Kicks Off Manhattan Caper
Worthy of Spy Thriller'

Beijing pressure 4
Guo’s return
sparks frantic response
from Trump admin
+ Penn Station, JFK airport standoffs'

2/3

wsj.com/articles/china…
10-22-2017

'China’s Pursuit of
Fugitive Businessman
Guo Wengui
Kicks Off Manhattan Caper
Worthy of Spy Thriller'

Beijing pressure 4
Guo’s return
sparks frantic response
from Trump admin
+ Penn Station, JFK airport standoffs'

3/3
wsj.com/articles/china…
Former
RNC Finance Chair,
Steve Wynn,

Hand-delivered
Orange Mob Blob
ltr from Chinese govt
requesting Guo’s handover.

Guo’s fate became subject
of heated internal debate w/in admin,
+ Jeff Sessions threatened 2 resign
if mogul turned over 2 China.
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
January 2018,
Hong Kong firm tied 2 Guo,
Eastern Profit, 👈
inked contract w
Strategic Vision US.

Contract promises
$9M in exchange 4
yr’s worth of snooping
on 10 unnamed individuals
known as “fish”.

Espionage
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
Strategic Vision
details on movements
2 financial records
2 sensitive personal info including
details on “subject's family,
extramarital affairs,
children born out of wedlock”
their “pornography”
+ their use of
dating’ or sexual services apps.😱

politico.com/story/2019/06/…
Strategic Vision
said it had a former NSA agent
on staff + said it had worked 4:

Republican politicians, 👈
Middle Eastern prince + 👈
politician belonging 2
opposition party in Russia.” 👈😱

politico.com/story/2019/06/…
Strategic Vision
provided a “sample report,
which appeared 2 show
Strategic Vision
could enter N2 banking systems
+ find evidence of money laundering.”
After $1M advancement by
Guo 2 Strategic Vision,
discovered firm didn't have
capabilities claimed.
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
ChYna + their malware:

In countersuit,
Strategic Vision
accusea Guo
of variety of troubling actions.
The firm, which denied most of
Eastern Profit’s allegations,
claimed when rep of Guo’s
provided a thumb drive w info
on his chosen surveillance targets🎯
Strategic Vision claims
Guo's thumb drive w
Chinese officials whom
Guo suspected of wrongdoing,

Thumb drive turned out 2 B loaded
w sophisticated malware.

After firm complained,
it received
3 new thumb drvs from Guo’s side,
1 containing malware.😱
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
Guo was introduced 2
Strategic Vision by
Lianchao Han,
a dissident activist.

Guo allegedly told SV
2 communicate w his asst,
whom Guo
“oddly advised was a member
of the Chinese Communist Party
who also could not be trusted.”
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
Strategic Vision
also alleges,
when it began researching its targets🎯
it discovered the targets
“had been designated by U.S. Dept of State
under Obama admin as
🔥‘Records Protected’ persons,
meaning info concerning
their status + activities:
not subject 2 disclosure.
None!
📌‘Records Protected’ persons,
meaning info concerning
their status + activities
was not subject 2 disclosure
under any circumstances.

Strategic Vision
learned that attempting 2
research 'Records Protected' subjects
could be a criminal activity."😱
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
📌Not clear 2 what exactly
“Records Protected”
designation refers.

“I have never heard of a State Dept
‘records protected’ designation per se,”
wrote Brian Egan, partner at law firm Steptoe
who served as dept’s top legal adviser
at end of Barack Obama’s admin.

1/2
📌Brian Egan continues:
“I am also having hard time imagining
circumstance in which
private person or company
could be prosecuted 4
attempting 2 research info
about a particular individual.”
2/2
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
*Background:
Guo made fortune in real estate,
benefiting from construction boom
around 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Developed reputation 4 playing hardball.

Guo gave police video of official
having sex w his mistress,
prompting man’s arrest + political downfall.
MOB Extrortion
Background:
Guo appears 2 owe his rise in part to his relationship
w former vice minister at China’s Ministry of State Security.
Ma Jian
who fell out of favor + arrested in early 2015
on corruption charges.

caixinglobal.com/2015-03-26/tyc…
Background:
Guo accused China’s
top anti-corruption official,
Wang Qishan, 👈
of corruption + of having an affair w famous actress,
📌Fan Bingbing,
whose temp disappearance
became international mystery
of its own last yr.
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
Even China works Horseshoe

Guo Wengui
is member of
Mar-a-Lago,
'Malware Centrale'
🤣
prompting *concerns
he might attempt
2 show up at club
during Xi’s first summit
w Trump in spring of 2017
cause some sort of
international incident.
ht @TrueFactsStated

#RatBoat
China hawks launched
Committee on Present Danger,
new conservative *advocacy group
aimed at encouraging U.S. confrontation
w China.

Both Waller,
who is fighting Guo Wengui,
+ Bannon,
billionaire’s closest U.S. ally,
R members of committee.🤔🐎👠
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
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