Kevin Mallory - Ex CIA and State Dept Fed Agent Caught Spying for China

[Laughing American]

Didn't see a thread on this, but here is another former CIA and State Dept Special Agent who has been spying for the Chinese. No doubt he passed a few polygraphs in his career.  Looks like he got himself in trouble by showing that device and talking to the FBI. Thoughts?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/ex-dod-employee-accused-of-selling-top-secret-governments-to-china/2017/06/22/3ec3a706-576f-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/264754031-story

[xenonman]

Thoughts?

It's interesting in that he's not of Chinese ethnicity, which most of those IC employees who spy for China usually are.

I always have a perverted sense of glee everytime I learn of these CIA employees who have successfully negotiated all the supposedly impregnable IC barriers erected to bar employment of those of dubious character, who nonetheless become employed and then attempt to use their positions there for personal profit.

Of course at State, he never would have been polygraphed, but in the case of the CIA he certainly must have been, to say nothing of all the vetting to satisfy the Office of Security that he was indeed a model citizen of the  most impeccable, faultless background and character!

This disclosure offers further confirmation, as if any is still needed, of just how well the "impregnable" vetting process (particularly the polygraph and BI) actually functions in reality to extirpate all those foreign spies from the pool of unfortunate, naive applicants!

[George W. Maschke]

Laughing American,

I am not sure the Kevin Mallory case has any relevance to polygraph policy, in that his alleged espionage activity seems to have happened only after the termination of his CIA employment. There is no indication that he passed a polygraph "test" whilst committing espionage (as Aldrich Ames, Ana Montes, Leandro Aragoncillo, and numerous other spies did).