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Chinese Defector Mystery Deepens

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Chinese Defector Mystery Deepens

Beijing’s sketchy report of Dong Jingwei’s appearance at a spy-catcher seminar only adds suspicion that top counterintelligence official fled to U.S.

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Jeff Stein
Jun 21, 2021
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Where is Dong Jingwei?

Widespread rumors that China's top counterintelligence official had defected to the United States last February reached a fever pitch over the weekend, propelled largely by unfounded reports in anticommunist and pro-Trump circles that Dong had brought with him evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic had originated in a leak from a viro…

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