Many times, when we hear the Chinese have recruited spies on US soil, they are normally Chinese-American scientists. Like most foreign intelligence services (FIS), the Chinese realized it would be much more valuable to have someone who could get inside the Central Intelligence Agency who perhaps wasn’t Chinese-American. Meet Glenn Duffie Shriver, a Michigan college student Beijing recruited to join the CIA in 2007. Although he failed to matriculate into the agency, he was paid over $70,000 to do so. American counterintelligence discovered this recruitment and prosecuted Shriver. Subsequently, in 2010, he was sentenced to four years in federal prison for committing espionage for a foreign government. The video above describes Shriver’s recruitment, the consequences of his actions, and subsequent attempts by the Chinese to recruit agents from backgrounds similar to Shriver’s.

Here are some resources to learn more about Shriver:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver

http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2011/wfo012111.htm

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/chinas-mole-in-training/

http://www.hanford.gov/c.cfm/oci/ci_spy.cfm?dossier=162

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/april/students-abroad-warned-of%20foreign-intelligence-threat/video-glenn-duffie-shriver-describes-experience
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