Former soldier searched Google, Reddit for spying tips, prosecutors say — Investigators say they found a document on the man’s computer titled: “Important Information to Share with Chinese Governme…::A document titled “Important Information to Share with Chinese Government" was allegedly found on the former soldier’s computer.
“Important Information to Share with Chinese Government"
I’m not a conspiracy person but does this not reek of a setup? 😂 Like surely someone spying for the chinese government wouldn’t just title a document that…
You’d be surprised how inept some people can be. Back when I worked in defense, we heard a story about a guy who, while preparing to exfiltrate sensitive data, named the file “data_to_exfiltrate.zip”. What a moron.
Yeah… Or setups just go past your nose often.
I don’t believe them as long as they don’t find copies oft “Sims 3” too.
Here’s the link the the FBI’s released on the topic. If this was a set up the FBI is as bad at espionage as Schmidt was. He literally offered to commit treason for China via his normal gmail, with his real name attached, that was given to the US army by himself.
Remember Jack the Dripper?
The “Important Information to Share with Chinese Government” folder on my own drive just contains my angry reviews of cheap crap from Amazon that didn’t work as advertised.
"information to absolutely under no circumstance share with the Chinese government…
Or people that like broccoli."
Schmidt studied Mandarin and was a spy handler, performing surveillance, interrogation and advanced psychological operation strategies
The saddest part is that a person in his position didn’t even have the knowledge to not link his treason Gmail account to his day to day Gmail account.
Gmail account 1 was subscribed to in the name of “Joe Schmidt.” In January 2018 and April 2019, SCHMIDT provided Gmail account 1 to the Army as his email address. Gmail account 1 also has a Google account associated with it. Gmail account 2 was subscribed to in the name of “Joey Schmidt” and lists Gmail account 1 as the recovery email address for the account. According to records obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, SCHMIDT used Gmail account 2 to make travel reservations for his trips to the PRC
It’s literally worse his (Joseph Schmidt) alias was Joey Schmidt. Then from the email the army has on record as being him he does this:
SCHMIDT used Gmail account 1 to send the following email to the pubic email address for the Chinese Consulate in Istanbul: Hello, My name is Joe Schmidt. I am a United States citizen looking to move to China. I currently reside in Istanbul, and am trying to set up an appointment at the consulate in Istanbul. I also am trying to share information I learned during my career as an interrogator with the Chinese government.
Oh man, that reminds me that I have a file called:
“File that would make any government super powerful, has a dead man switch, and I take bribes.”
I hope no one finds out about it.
Wait, you have one too? Crap
That’s like putting all your porn in a desktop folder labeled “Sexually Explicit Images”
