Chinese Espionage and FBI Covert Surveillance in Clandestine Car Meeting (Jul. 2007)

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Gregg W. Bergersen was a US Navy veteran (intelligence and Electronic Warfare) working as Director of C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) for the DSCA (Defense Security Cooperation Agency) when FBI CID (Counter Intelligence Division) discovered that he was selling classified information to Tai Shen Kuo, a naturalised citizen originally from Taiwan, working as New Orleans furniture salesman. Tai Shen Kuo was covertly working for Chinese intelligence, and recruited Bergersen as his agent under the guise that the information he sold to him would be provided to Taiwan. However, it was given to China.

They were both arrested and charged with espionage. Gregg W. Bergersen pleaded guilty to conspiracy to disclose national defence information to someone not entitled to receive it. He was sentenced to 57 months (about 4 years and 9 months) in federal prison and also received three years of supervised release after his prison term. Tai Shen Kuo pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliver national defence information to a foreign government. He was sentenced to 188 months in prison (about 15 years and 8 months) and ordered to forfeit $40,000.

This covert surveillance footage was obtained by FBI CID after clandestinely installing covert surveillance devices in the rented car they were meeting in. The sold information included all planned sales of weapons and military technology to Taiwan for the next five years.

00:00 - Overview
00:20 - Covert surveillance footage
01:25 - FBI comments
03:09 - Bergersen's business card
03:14 - FBI in Tai Shen Kuo's Houma house

References
LinkedIn: Gregg Bergersen:   / gregg-bergersen-483209118  
YouTube: CBS: Spy Transaction Caught on Tape:    • Spy Transaction Caught on Tape  
YouTube: 60 Minutes: Chinese Spy Stories:    • Chinese Spy Stories | 60 Minutes Full Epis...  
The San Diego Union-Tribune: How a networking immigrant became a spy: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...
Houma Today: Restaurateur arrested on espionage charges: https://eu.houmatoday.com/story/news/...
Substack: China in Arms - Podcast and Newsletter: Part 1: Spies and Provocateurs: https://chinainarms.substack.com/p/pa...
US Department of Justice: New Orleans Man Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Prison for Espionage Involving China: https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/p...