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Feds: We Don’t Have Chinese Defector Dong Jingwei 

Rumors of Chinese counterintelligence chief fleeing are false, Washington says

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Jun 22, 2021
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Swirling, widespread reports over the past several weeks that Beijing’s top counterintelligence official had defected to the United States are “not accurate,” a U.S. government official told SpyTalk on Tuesday.

“We are just looking to correct the record,” said the official, speaking on terms of anonymity to discuss the highly sensitive issue.

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