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Alleged Spies Caught in Hawaii Using IDs of Two Dead Texas Children

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The Americans was a TV show about foreign spies planted in the US by the Soviet Union during the 1980s. The husband was a travel agent. I never watched so I have no idea how a travel agent could do much damage to America.

There have been plenty of examples of Americans spying for the Soviets during the 1980s and doing immeasurable damage to the US.

In 1985, sometimes referred to as “the year of the spy”, G-men rounded up John Walker, who headed a Navy spying ring, and Ronald W. Pelton, who worked for the NSA. Also nabbed was Jon Pollard, who spied for Israel.

Arguably the worst example of an American spying for the Soviets, then the Russians, was Robert Hanssen. Hanssen started his career with the FBI, ironically, in 1976. He began spying the same year that Walker, Pelton, and Pollard were arrested. His espionage lasted until 2001 when he was arrested. The damage he caused was enormous, and it wasn’t for an ideology, it was for money. $1.6 million in cash, diamonds, and bank deposits.

Stars and Stripes Magazine reported that a couple has been arrested in Kapolei Hawaii on “conspiring against the government and identity theft” charges.

Their real names are Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, both born in 1955. The couple was originally from Port Lavaca, Texas. They married in 1980 and, here is where it gets cold-war-like. Seven years later, they resurfaced and assumed the identities of two dead Texas children named Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague. Fort died in 1967. Montague died at the age of three weeks in 1968. In 1988, about a year after they assumed their false identities, they remarried as Fort and Montague.

Primrose waited until 1994 (arguably to build up a “history”), and at 39 years of age, he enlisted in the Coast Guard. Fort, had he lived, would have been 27. I don’t know a single 39-year-old man who could pass for a 27-year-old, either in appearance or during a physical, but he enlisted and eventually “served” 22 years stationed, finally, at Barber’s Point, not far from their home in Kapolei. In 2016, Primrose was hired by an “unnamed” defense contractor and had been employed as such until his arrest last Friday.

That Primrose got into the Coast Guard is a clear failure in basic vetting. That he got a “secret” clearance in the Coast Guard, and then the same secret clearance in 2016 with a defense contractor, is unconscionable.

The government’s pleading indicates that a “close associate” said Morrison lived in Romania while it was a Soviet bloc country. Her attorney denies this. Attached to the pleading as an exhibit is a photo of both Morrison and Primrose wearing a Soviet KGB uniform. That was a “joke” said defense counsel. According to the Assistant US Attorney handling the case, a search of the couple’s home turned up an invisible ink kit, documents with coded language, and maps showing military installations.

Both defendants have indicated that it is all a big misunderstanding – neither of them are spies, according to a defense attorney. It’s all a big mistake. Da.

The government has asked for no bail. They remain in custody with a bail hearing set for this coming Tuesday.

Senate Report: China Infiltrating Federal Reserve in Espionage Effort to Undermine US

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The Federal Reserve decided to hike interest rates by 75 basis points on Wednesday.

Former Director of the National Economic Council under Trump, Larry Kudlow welcomed their actions but said they should have come sooner and that he believed we were already in a recession, which he blamed at least in part on the Biden overspending and the infrastructure bill. But then he dropped a bomb in the last two minutes of this clip.

“China has infiltrated the Federal Reserve,” Kudlow said. “China has infiltrated Fed research assistants.” He said that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had been investigating.

According to the minority report, headed by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), this was no light probing effort by the Chinese, but was a broad-based espionage attempt targeting the Federal Reserve connected to China’s Thousand Talents economic espionage program.

“A Federal Reserve counterintelligence analysis identified 13 persons of interest as having connections with known Chinese talent recruitment plan members or ‘having similar patterns of activity the [Federal Reserve] analysts deemed’ of potential concern,” the new report says. “Federal Reserve investigators dubbed these individuals, representing no fewer than 8 of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, as the P-Network.”

The Senate report said the actions of those individuals and their connections to Chinese talent programs are “alarming” and provide “stark examples of the ways in which the Chinese Government has attempted to gain access to sensitive internal information and influence” the Fed.

“I am concerned by the threat to the Fed and hope our investigation, which is based on the Fed’s own documents and corresponds with assessments and recommendations made by the FBI, wakes the Fed up to the broad threat from China to our monetary policy,” Portman told the Washington Examiner. “The risk is clear. I urge the FBI and the Fed to do more to counter this threat from one of our foremost foreign adversaries.”

So, you would think that Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, would be concerned and thank Portman for the information.

Instead, Powell appears to be attacking the report, saying they were “troubled by what we believe to be the report’s unfair, unsubstantiated, and unverified insinuations about particular individual staff members.”

The report showed this had been ongoing since at least 2013 and detailed all kinds of evidence, even five “case studies” of employees being targeted.

Chinese officials “forcibly detained one Federal Reserve Bank employee on four separate occasions during a 2019 trip to Shanghai” and “threatened the individual’s family unless the individual provided them with economic information and assistance, allegedly tapped the employee’s phones and computers, and copied the contact information of other Federal Reserve officials from the individual’s WeChat account,” according to the report.

The investigation also “found multiple U.S. Federal Reserve employees with close ties to the People’s Bank of China,” while one Federal Reserve bank employee held a position in 2017 with the Chinese central bank, which was meant for “overseas, top performing talent with directly applicable, advanced modeling experience, and insight with China and U.S. economic monetary policy.”

“One Federal Reserve Bank employee with sensitive access to Federal Reserve Board data provided modeling code to a Chinese university with ties to PBOC,” the report says. “Another Federal Reserve Bank employee attempted to transfer large volumes of data from the Federal Reserve to an external site in at least two separate instances. The individual had continuous contacts with Chinese nationals and universities associated with talent recruitment programs as well as access to sensitive datasets ‘considered of high value to an adversary’ and had previously received a request from an individual with ties to the Chinese Government for non-public information.”

Portman said that the Chinese were taking advantage of the Fed’s lack of “internal counterintelligence competency or sufficient ongoing cooperation with Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.”

This is an incredibly serious thing, particularly detaining the employee to force him to comply, but it raises the concern of how deeply engrained China is and how many people have they compromised. This isn’t just regarding things like the Fed, but we saw how they did this with politicians as well, with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Fang Fang. But unfortunately, we don’t even know if we can count on the Biden team to truly address these concerns–when there are even questions about Biden being compromised.