Larry Wu Tai Chin
Chin, an individual of Chinese descent was naturalized as a US citizen. He worked for the US army as a translator during the Korean War and is believed to have started his career as a traitor then. Once he completed his military service, he was recruited by the CIA where he worked for the Chinese until his arrest in 1985.
On the day of his sentencing, when guards arrived at Chin’s cell in the Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center to transport him to court, they found him lifeless with a garbage bag over his head. An autopsy concluded that Chin had committed suicide in his cell taking the easy way out.
Harold James Nicholson
Harold James”Jim” Nicholson is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer.
In 1990, he was made CIA Chief of Station in Bucharest, Romania. He stayed in this capacity until 1992, after that he was transferred to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he served as the Deputy Chief of Station/Operations Officer and met with targeted Russian officials whom he looked to recruit. He stayed in this position for two years.
In 1995, Nicholson was subjected to a polygraph test where he failed on the following questions
“Are you hiding involvement with a Foreign Intelligence Service?”
“Have you had unauthorized contact with a Foreign Intelligence Service?”
“Since 1990, have you had contact with a Foreign Intelligence Service that you are trying to hide from the CIA?”
“Are you trying to hide any contact with a Foreign Intelligence Service since 1990?”
The polygraph examiner also had to warn Nicholson to stop taking deep breaths during control questions; a tactic often used to manipulate the test.
Nicholson was convicted of selling US intelligence to Russia for $300,000 and was sentenced to 23 years seven months of imprisonment on June 5, 1997. Prosecutors believed that he had sold the identities of all US intelligence officers stationed in Russia, as well as the identities of his trainees at the CIA school, commonly known as “the farm”.
James Hall lll
James W. Hall III is a former United States Army warrant officer and signals intelligence analyst in Germany who sold eavesdropping and code secrets to East Germany and the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1988.
He was nicknamed the “Stasi super-agent,” but after spending a quarter of a century in jail for selling top secret US intelligence data to the former Soviet Union and Communist East Germany, the ex-spy James Hall says he is ashamed of what he did.
Hall was convicted of espionage on July 20, 1989; he was fined $50,000 and given a dishonorable discharge and was serving a 40-year sentence for those activities at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from which he was released in September 2011
After his arrest, Hall said there were many indicators visible to those around him that he was involved in questionable activity. Hall’s activities inflicted grave damage on U.S. signals intelligence, and he is considered the “perpetrator of one of the most costly and damaging breaches of security of the long Cold War.
Ironically, I may have met Hall although I do not remember him. I was assigned to Berlin Brigade and had military intelligence duties at the same time with Field Station Berlin (FSB). Although not assigned to Teufelsberg as Hall was, it is very possible, in fact probable, he and I ran into each other at one time or another.
Col. George Trofimoff
Colonel George Trofimoff was a former United States military intelligence officer of Russian descent. He was convicted in a U.S. Federal court as a spy for the Soviet Union during the 1970s and ’80s. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 27, 2001. George Trofimoff is the most senior officer in U.S. military history to be charged with or convicted of espionage.
Former KGB General Oleg Kalugin, who had been head of the foreign counterintelligence, or K branch, of the KGB First Chief Directorate. Upon being asked whether he knew the name of Agent “Markiz,” Kalugin responded “Yes. I did. His name was George Trofimoff. “General Kalugin further described his own alleged meeting with Col. Trofimoff at a location in Austria.
In 2002 he was put on trial in absentia in Moscow and found guilty of spying for the West. He was sentenced to fifteen years in jail, in a verdict he described as “Soviet justice, which is really triumphant today.” The US and Russia have no extradition treaty. Kalugin currently works for the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies
Colonel George Vladimirovich Trofimoff died in Federal Prison on September 19, 2014.
Bradley Manning
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning) is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by a court-martial in July 2013, of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. Manning was sentenced to 35 years confinement in August 2013, but was later released on May 17, 2017 under an ill-advised commutation by President Obama.
Well, what can we say about little Bradley Manning? This is a person that should have never been in a position of trust much less in the US Military. His behavior and mental stability were giant red flags from day one, in fact even before the military. He is yet another person our intelligence agencies or military gave a pass to because of a need for a skill they had.
Looking at this list, I think we would be better served to find a patriot and teach them what they need instead of finding a skilled person and close our eyes to their problems. That is a hard lesson, and we seem to repeat the mistakes of the past over and over.
As a side note, if you are in the dating market, do not select anyone on Match.com named Chelsea that has a strong jaw line, they may be a traitor.
Edward Joseph Snowden
Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization.
In 2013, Snowden was able to find employment with NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA. In interviews, Snowden has stated he got that job with Booz Allen so he could steal information and leak it to the press.
Snowden clearly sees himself as self-important and more intelligent than his peers or supervisors. In fact, although he has the little formal education -Snowden dropped out of High School – he took it upon himself to decide that he “knew the law” and determined his interpretation was better than that of government officials, lawyers, and judges.
On June 21, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property. Two days later, he flew into Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport
He reportedly lives in an undisclosed location in Moscow and continues to seek asylum elsewhere in the world. I am sure the US will find him adequate accommodations here should he return. He won’t need much room, a 10 x 10 cell should be fine.
