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Chinese Spies Among Us Charles R. Smith Red Team vs. Blue Team The 1990s saw the rise of two informal but influential factions inside America, the "Blue" team and the "Red" team. Since then, these two teams have dominated the political debate over China. The names of these factions were taken from the traditional war-game colors from the Cold War era. The Blue team represented the free West, more specifically America, and the Red team represented the Communist empire, usually the Soviet Union. Each faction drew its ranks from an assortment of personnel; defense, intelligence, law enforcement, congressional, industrial and even members of the press. The Blue team sees China as a "strategic threat" while the Red team sees China as a "strategic partner." Each team has had its victories and losses. For example, the current (un)balance of trade between America and China is a massive victory for the Red team, which can include some of the most powerful and influential corporations among its ranks. Red team members have convinced Congress and the White House that trade with China is good for America. Yet the Blue team has its own victories. The Blue team effort to shut off advanced U.S. technology transfers to China such as satellites and space-launch vehicles came as fallout from the "Chinagate" affair. The Chinagate scandal involved massive donations made to the DNC and Clinton's presidential campaigns from the Chinese army (the People's Liberation Army, or PLA), funneled through a series of false donors. The object of the donations was to influence Clinton into giving China access to advanced U.S. military technology. The effort succeeded in that Clinton removed control over key military technologies from the Defense Department and State Department, giving the export powers to the Commerce Department. The result was a bonanza for the PLA. In the span of a few short years, Chinese missile, satellite, avionics and nuclear weapons capability surged forward over decades of development. Story Continues Below
Red Team Spy Yet, unknown to America, other members of the Red team were also taking actions that exceeded the law. One such vocal Red team member is Ronald Montaperto. Montaperto pleaded guilty to charges of passing secrets to the PLA. Montaperto began employment with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during the 1980s. He was assigned as an intelligence analyst on the People's Republic of China (PRC). He also held a Top Secret security clearance. "In August 2001, a joint Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and FBI investigation was initiated on MONTAPERTO in Honolulu, Hawaii. As part of the investigation, a ruse was established in which a U.S. military representative approached MONTAPERTO in July 2003 and asked him whether he would be interested in working on a sensitive project on China. In accordance with the ruse, MONTAPERTO was told that he would have to submit to a counterintelligence polygraph examination administered by the NCIS as a prerequisite to working on this special project. MONTAPERTO volunteered to do so," noted a statement of facts issued to Federal Court in Virginia by the FBI. "In two pre-polygraph interviews conducted by NCIS agents in October 2003, MONTAPERTO admitted the following: a) he met with PRC military attachés Yang Qiming and Yu Zenghe, individually, from 1983 to 1990; b) he knew when he met with the two attachés that both were trained intelligence officers; c) he would often discuss classified issues with the attachés by talking "around" the information; and d) he had verbally disclosed to Yu Zenghe information classified by the U.S. government at the Secret and Top Secret levels (although he stated he could not recall specifically what classified information he had disclosed to Yu Zenghe)," noted the FBI. "During this interview, MONTAPERTO elaborated on admissions he had made in previous interviews about having disclosed classified information to PRC military attachés in the 1980's. He also stated that from 1989 to 2001 he continued to meet with PRC military attachés from the PRC Embassy. MONTAPERTO named several attachés, all of whom were determined by the FBI to be PRC intelligence officers who worked within the United States," states the FBI Court document. "MONTAPERTO admitted he may have orally disclosed classified information that he recollected from his previous position to PRC military attachés as late as 2001," noted the FBI. DNC Web Site To demonstrate just how influential the Red team is, I must note that Montaperto's works until recently appeared on a DNC Web site right under the display of Democrat leaders such as Hillary Clinton. The DNC has since removed the essay and all links to Montaperto. However, a copy of the work, taken right from the DNC page, was made available to this reporter. "The PLA focus is defensive and directed toward its borders and adjacent areas," noted a 1998 DNC report written by Montaperto. "It is grossly misleading to conceive China as the next Soviet Union, both in terms of capabilities and intentions. China's military modernization program is still relatively modest in scale and limited in means. It is unlikely that China's economy will continue to grow at the 9 to 10 percent annual rate of recent years. Beijing is not rushing pell-mell to become a military superpower," states the report. "The PLA is not engaged in a crash program designed to produce modern military capabilities within a short period of time," asserts Montaperto. Ironically, the 1998 report on the DNC Web site by Montaperto flies in the face of the facts as we now know them. The PLA is indeed engaged in a crash effort to modernize its fighting powers. The Chinese military is deploying mobile missiles at nearly 100 a year and expanding its budget at double-digit rates. The PLA is not defensive, nor is it directed toward its borders and adjacent areas. The recent incursion of a Chinese nuclear submarine into Japanese territorial waters is a demonstration of power projection and dangerous intimidation. China is indeed rushing "pell-mell" to become a military superpower. The newest ICBM to sport the PLA colors can strike deep into the U.S. homelands, and the rapid expansion of Chinese airpower is a clear demonstration of billions being poured into weapons procurement by the PRC leadership. Nixon Center Of course, Republicans can also take faith that Montaperto relayed his messages to the Nixon Center in October 19, 2000. "Montaperto explained there is an upside to Chinese military modernization. As Beijing develops a greater capacity to defend itself, he said, its response to both internal and external events will be more tempered. In the past, China has had a ‘hair-trigger' response to perceived or real threats, according to Montaperto, in part because of its weak military. An increase in China's capacity to defend itself should encourage a more stable response to global events," notes a statement issued by the Nixon Center on Montaperto's performance. So, we are to take heart that an armed China will be more "tempered"? This is the same policy adopted by the Clinton administration that asserted the weakness of the Chinese military made Beijing paranoid and more likely to wage war. This upside-down theory has little basis in fact or recent Chinese history. Today's more advanced and heavily armed China is all too likely to respond with a "hair trigger" push of the atomic button. This attitude was voiced quite clearly by a PLA general last year who threatened to nuke America. Still, the Red team propaganda does not end here. Even as recently as May 2004, Monteperto's idiot mantra was spewed forth by the Council on Foreign Affairs. "PLA control of Taiwan would complicate the work of U.S. and Japanese planners by imposing additional strain on naval and air forces that are already overextended. But, such control would not threaten any vital U.S. interests. In military/strategic terms, Taiwan's value to the U.S. is marginal," noted Monteperto in an article published by the Council on Foreign Affairs. Monteperto's comments are a slap in the face of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy – because, according to him, these forces are "already overextended." This will certainly come as news to the bombers stationed at Guam and the three aircraft carriers that recently held exercises in the South Pacific. Of course, his comment that Taiwan's value is "marginal" ignores the danger if Chinese naval power controls the sea lanes through which virtually all of Japanese oil imports travel. His statement also ignores the key strategic importance of Taiwan to U.S. defense electronics such as nanotechnology. The Red team has lost a valuable member, and the Chinese army has lost an important spy. Whether advising Republican or Democrat, Monteperto and his ilk do great damage to the United States. The consequences of appeasement are war and enslavement. It is time to take a hard look at our relationship with China and recognize that the totalitarian regime in Beijing will use any means possible to destroy freedom, including planting spies among us. Editor's note: Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
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