Spy Vs. Spy

So, as a former film student I’ve been dreaming for a long time of writing a spy movie. It seems now that it is being written for me.

 The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Gregg Bergersen, a Pentagon employee with top secret security clearances, for allegedly providing a Chinese government agent with information about US weapons sales to Taiwan. In another case, Chung Dongfan, a former Boeing employee, was arrested for economic espionage involving US military programmes.

The arrests highlight the growing concern in the US about Chinese military and industrial espionage. Kenneth Wainstein, assistant attorney-general for national security, on Monday said the Bergersen case was a “classic espionage operation.”

If you think references to “classic espionage operations” are as comic book as I do (and therefore hilarious!), check out this lin

On one occasion, Mr Bergersen appeared to let Mr Kuo take notes from a classified document regarding past, and potential future, weapons sales to Taiwan. On their way to the restaurant where Mr Kuo copied the information over lunch, Mr Bergersen warned him to be careful about letting the information fall into the wrong hands.

“I would be fired for sure. I, I’d go to jail,” Mr Bergersen said, according to a transcript of a secretly taped conversation included in the affidavit.

After leaving the restaurant close to Dulles airport outside Washington, Mr Bergersen renewed his concerns, saying “Fuck, I’d go to jail, I don’t wanna go to jail,” before warning that Mr Kuo should make sure there are “no fingerprints”.

One of your Chinese co-workers likes to claim that several well known Chinese entrepreneurs are actually spies (and that Wu Yi used to date an Asian prince!), so it seems that spooks are doing decent business in US-China relations, at least in the minds of US or Chinese citizens. Can anyone think of a potential difficulty in US-China relations that could lead to an ending suitably tragic for a spy movie? Bradley Gardner