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Johnny Chung Unfiltered: The Shocking Story the Press Won't Report

Carl Limbacher November 1, 1999

At an Oct. 23rd Judicial Watch awards dinner, key government witness Johnny Chung described at length what he knows about the Clinton administration's "Cash for Military Secrets" Chinagate scandal. It was the first time Chung has spoken out in such detail in any venue not controlled by mainstream media censors.

As he reported that night, Chung's harrowing experience included no fewer than three separate attempts on his life by persons identified to him by the FBI as members of a Beijing "hit squad." The most recent assassination attempt took place in March of this year, when a man with a gun got as far as Chung's office, only to be stopped by FBI agents assigned to protect him.

The former Democrat fund-raiser explained his role in the FBI's undercover Chinagate sting operation, where he was bodywired before meeting with a Chinese government agent. That agent implicated the White House in an international cover-up, telling Chung on tape that he could get a presidential pardon if he played along.

Chung also revealed how a leak covered by the New York Times blew his cover and sabotaged the investigation, compelling the FBI to assign 24-hour, seven-day-a-week protection to him and his family.

Though three television networks sent camera crews to film Chung's blockbuster address, only one, C-Span, offered coverage to its viewers. The rest of America knows nothing about Johnny Chung's stunning insider story, thanks to the mainstream media's blackout.

Here's just some of Mr. Chung's story. As he told his audience that night, "You be the judge":

"Since I get my sentence  I plead guilty March 9th, 1998  immediately a gentleman named Robert Lu, acting like a Chinese messenger, gave me the message, 'Delay, delay, delay,' because President Clinton is ready to visit China. 'Take the FBI and the Department of Justice [on a wild goosechase].'

"One thing he doesn't know is that I'm fully cooperating with the FBI, with a bodywire and everything. My office is like a radio studio, a recording studio. Everything we said is recorded on the tape. Don't let them burn it.

"And he said, 'Keep quiet and you can retire in style.' Which means, I'm going to receive a lot of money. 'If you talk, everything will be out of control. How's your family? How's your wife?' The Chinese are a little bit different than the Italian Mafia. They're more polite. But he didn't know that every word was on the recording.

"And he said, 'If you have to go to jail, you are going to spend it in the country club. And you can even get a presidential pardon. And, both sides of Beijing and Washington and Taiwanese officials, they are working on [my] case, if you wanted to keep quiet.'

"When I was meeting with the one guy, he, Mr. Robert Lu, wanted me to meet with one attorney named Mr. David Brockway in Los Angeles. He called himself a former attorney for Watergate. And when I met with the guy, before I meet with them, Mr. Lu told me, 'I'm going to meet you in a private club; not even the CIA can get in.'

"Thank God. What a wonderful FBI job. Inside that restaurant, that private club, every table filled with FBI agents to protect me. And he is why CIA cannot get in  but FBI did.

"Then into the conversation [Lu] said number three of Department of Justice, the head of civil division, is working out with him. 'Everybody keep quiet. Don't worry, don't panic.' I don't remember the name but I know the position. Mr. Klayman, I give it to you already in my testimony in your deposition. Sometimes when [Larry Klayman] asks me the questions, I volunteer to give another extra answer. Because I know this guy is seeking for the truth.

"But because of that, somebody leaked the information to the New York Times. That was May 14th, 1998, when I was [in an] undercover operation. Immediately, the next day, May 15, 1998, I got a phone call from the FBI [telling m]), 'Mr. Chung, it's time to go, to begin our 21-day government protection.' Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

"Thank God, and I want to thank my daughter and my wife for being there with me. Thank you.

"The people who leaked the information, I hope the Congress will check it out and continue to investigate because [those who leaked] don't care [about] someone who's willing to fully cooperate with the government. They put my life and my family's life in danger because they want to burn, to burn the undercover operation.

"During the undercover operation I see something strange. [While] the FBI protect me with a machine gun, I was allowed to have my [baseball] hat with my sunglasses, with my T-shirt and my short pants, with my slippers. I don't think you guys can recognize that's Johnny Chung.

"Later on they told me that there's four men from Beijing, China. They call them 'hit squad.' [They go] from Beijing [to] Los Angeles [to] Las Vegas [back to] Los Angeles [to] Honolulu, Hawaii, [to] Tokyo; then they go back to Beijing. Then the second time, during that same 21 days, two men and one woman arrive in Los Angeles Airport. And this time [the FBI] send them back with the same airplane. Thank God for the wonderful counterintelligence information [the FBI] got.

"And the third time was this year, March 20, 1999. An Italian-American person come to my office and knock on the door like crazy with a weapon in his back pocket. I was lucky the FBI agent was inside my office. Finally they got him. But I do not know what happened next.

"I made a mistake; I paid a huge price. But I want to say it again and again: They can try to kill me, but they cannot stop me from telling the truth."

-- Crooks are them (media@inbed.biggoverment), November 01, 1999

Answers

so it sounds like the FBI is honestly trying to uncover what's going on? is this why the FBI and our pres are not getting along lately?

-- tt (CUDDLUPPY@YAHOO.COM), November 01, 1999.