中国国安部在加州设死信标间谍网盯防美海军人员，两名涉案华人被判刑
Ministry of State Security ran California dead-drop spy ring targeting Navy personnel before federal sentencing
- 美国联邦地区法官乔恩·蒂格（Jon S. Tigar）对中国公民赖利仁（Liren Lai）与陈元策（Yuance Chen）判处30个月联邦监禁，罪名是在美国领土上为中国国家安全部运营未注册的间谍网络。 U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar sentenced Liren Lai and Yuance Chen to 30 months in federal prison for operating an unregistered Ministry of State Security spy network on American soil.
- 奥克兰联邦法庭记录显示，国安部上线指使二人将1万美元现金藏匿于加州利弗莫尔一家健身房的储物柜中，并拍摄基察普海军基地（Naval Base Kitsap）的核潜艇设施。 Court records in Oakland show MSS handlers directed the pair to hide $10,000 cash in a Livermore gym locker and photograph nuclear submarine facilities at Naval Base Kitsap.
- 该情报行动搜集了美国海军现役水兵及征兵人员的个人背景档案，企图为中国情报机关发展内部线人。 The operation gathered biographical profiles on active-duty U.S. Navy sailors and recruiters to cultivate insider sources for Chinese intelligence.
根据加州奥克兰解密的联邦量刑记录，中国国家安全部曾操纵一个秘密间谍网络，通过健身房储物柜“死信标”向线人支付报酬，并对太平洋海军设施展开侦察。美国联邦地区法官乔恩·蒂格（Jon S. Tigar）在案号为 4:25-cr-00186-JST 的判决中，对中国公民赖利仁与陈元策判处30个月监禁。这起共谋始于2021年，当时赖利仁招募陈元策负责现金转运。在加州利弗莫尔，两人将1万美元现金藏进一家康体中心的储物柜内；随后，陈元策前往基察普海军基地拍摄核潜艇泊位，并搜集现役水兵的背景档案。这笔现金最终无人认领。
该行动展示了不对称渗透的手法——利用持旅游签证的平民信使刺探关键基础设施。国安部上线指使陈元策使用加密手机编纂海军目标档案，同时筹划在菲尼克斯安排第二笔2万美元的死信标交接。这一模式并不陌生。2023年，联邦法院定罪了两名加州水兵，二人因微薄的贿赂向中国情报机构出卖了太平洋舰队战舰图纸。在本次案件中，该政权采取借口掩饰，以海外华人日常出行的名义遮掩间谍勾当。而一旦行动人员落网，幕后的上线便销声匿迹。
北京将海外华人社群视作可供胁迫或武器化以对付所在国的行动预备力量。这种掠夺式的招募，彻底毒化了逃离威权控制的华裔移民所赖以生存的信任环境。党国体制自身承担零风险。国家安全机关在郊区康体中心内用现金诱购海军机密，既削弱了外部的威慑力，又在手铐合拢的瞬间将本国公民当成弃卒抛弃。
China’s Ministry of State Security ran a clandestine spy ring that paid informants through gym locker dead drops and surveyed Pacific naval installations, according to federal sentencing records unsealed in Oakland. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar sentenced Chinese nationals Liren Lai and Yuance Chen to thirty months in prison under Case No. 4:25-cr-00186-JST. The conspiracy began in 2021 when Lai recruited Chen to handle cash deliveries. In Livermore, California, the pair hid ten thousand dollars inside a recreation center locker before Chen photographed nuclear submarine berths at Naval Base Kitsap and profiled active-duty sailors. The cash sat unclaimed.
The operation demonstrates asymmetric infiltration, using civilian couriers on tourist visas to probe critical infrastructure. State security handlers directed Chen to compile dossiers on naval targets using encrypted phones while arranging a second twenty-thousand-dollar drop in Phoenix. The pattern is familiar. In 2023, federal courts convicted two California sailors for selling Pacific Fleet warship blueprints to Chinese intelligence for modest bribes. Here, the regime deployed pretextual cloaking to mask espionage beneath routine diaspora travel. Handlers vanish when operatives get caught.
Beijing views the diaspora as an operational reserve to be coerced or weaponized against host nations. This predatory recruitment poisons trust for Chinese emigrants who fled authoritarian control. The party-state absorbs zero risk. By dangling cash for naval secrets inside suburban recreational centers, state security organs degrade foreign deterrence while discarding their own nationals the moment handcuffs click.
由于官方媒体的严密审查，中国大陆社交媒体平台上完全未见有关奥克兰宣判的任何报道或讨论。在海外中文论坛上，网民嘲讽这种依靠冷战式健身房储物柜死信标传递现金的笨拙手法，并指出国安部上线随时准备抛弃被招募的平民信使，而高级情报官员则安然隐匿在遥远的北京。
Mainland social media platforms saw no reporting or discussion of the Oakland sentencing due to strict state media censorship. On overseas Chinese forums, users mocked the clumsy reliance on Cold War-style gym locker cash drops, observing that MSS handlers readily burn recruited civilian couriers while senior intelligence officers remain safely insulated in Beijing.
中国国家网信办对“赖利仁”、“陈元策”及“利弗莫尔死信标”等相关境内搜索词实施了即时封杀屏蔽。官方媒体对联邦法院的判决全然不报，向国内公众隐瞒了安全机关如何将持旅游签证和绿卡的普通平民武器化、驱使其从事海外间谍活动的行径。
The Cyberspace Administration of China enforced an immediate blackout on domestic search terms related to 'Liren Lai' (赖利仁), 'Yuance Chen' (陈元策), and 'Livermore dead drop'. State media completely ignored the federal court ruling, concealing from the Chinese public how civilian citizens on tourist visas and green cards are weaponized by the security apparatus for overseas espionage.
这起案号为 4:25-cr-00186-JST 的诉讼突显了中国国家安全部对环太平洋地区美军海军基地的系统性盯防。该行动与2023年美国海军水兵魏金超（Jinchao Wei）和赵文恒（Wenheng Zhao）被定罪一案高度相似，当时二人因微薄的现金贿赂向国安部上线出卖了受管制的两栖攻击舰图纸和雷达技术手册。
The prosecution under Case No. 4:25-cr-00186-JST highlights the Ministry of State Security's systematic focus on U.S. naval installations across the Pacific Rim. The operation closely parallels the 2023 convictions of U.S. Navy sailors Jinchao Wei and Wenheng Zhao, who sold restricted amphibious assault diagrams and radar technical manuals to MSS handlers for modest cash bribes.