Spies on the Space Coast are making a mockery of America’s security systems and law enforcement agencies. They blatantly utilize all tradecraft techniques, including “honey trap”, intrusions, drones, balloons, trespass, and electronic gathering. Yet law enforcement at all levels, from the FBI to local police, to the judicial system, to the political system, gives the spies, when caught, a slap on the wrist and sets them free. 

The Space Coast, located in Florida’s Brevard County, is home to:

1. Cape Canaveral space facilities, where NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin launch rockets vital to US national security.
2. US Space Force Patrick base, whose mission is the control of space launches and warfare training for space. It is the Department of War’s East Coast spaceport.
3. The Naval Ordnance Test Unit (NOTU) tests submarine ballistic missiles.

Vanity Fair recently published “Spylandia: How a Stretch of Florida Real Estate Has Become a Covert Corridor for Chinese and Russian Spies.” 

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging “unrestricted warfare” or a “smokeless war” against the United States and Western Civilization. The CCP and Islamism have formed a Red/Green alliance to undermine and subjugate the US and the West. The “enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

The CCP’s unrestricted warfare is unrelenting and encompassing:

1. Honey trap espionage – attractive Chinese females seduce prominent politicians, businessmen, military personnel, and academics:
   1. Eric Swalwell – US Representative and current candidate for governor of California, was supported socially and financially by Fang Fang, a suspected Chinese spy. The FBI eventually gave a defensive briefing to Swalwell on Fang Fang, and he terminated his relationship. She is no longer in the US.
   2. Bars in Brevard County near space launch control are scenes of Chinese women “cold bumping’ men for introduction and then probing them for work responsibilities and personal vulnerabilities.
2. Brazen behavior goes unpunished:
   1. Foreign diplomats who aren’t supposed to travel in the US feign vacation travel to Disney World but never actually visit it. They disappear into Florida with its Space Coast, 21 military installations, hundreds of defense contractors, three military combatant commands, and other critical infrastructure.
   2. A house near Patrick Space Force base is rented to a Chinese national for $6,000/month, well above the local rental rate. A private citizen, a divorced, remarried stay-at-home mom, thought there was something off with its all-white paint and bulky equipment boxes along the property’s exterior with cables snaking back into the building. An abnormally high level of Bluetooth emissions emanated from the house. When she contacted the FBI, the agent told her she was engaged in racial profiling.
   3. A Chinese-made drone launched from a vessel at sea breached restricted airspace over Kennedy Space Center prior to a manned SpaceX launch to the International Space Station. It flew four times higher than permitted for recreational use. The drone returned to the vessel, but security could not get an interdiction team to it before it bugged out(?)
   4. 71-year-old Xiao Guang Pan was arrested by the feds for flying drones on three separate occasions over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and photographing payload processing stations, munition bunkers, and other sensitive installations. He pled guilty, was placed on probation, and deported to Canada.
   5. A Chinese national frogman was arrested in Playalinda Beach, near Space Launch Complex 39B and well within the security perimeter, as Artemis prepared a launch. He carried rations, a solar charger, and sophisticated electronics for gathering signals. NASA turned him over to Homeland Security, who briefly interrogated him and then removed him from the country.

Summary

The list of Chinese intelligence operatives operating with impunity against America and Western Civilization are endless. Yet government authorities seem hapless and helpless in protecting and delivering justice for blatant breaches of security protocols.

The FBI, with limited resources, is overwhelmed with Chinese espionage cases, Russian spies, Islamic jihadists, North Korean cyber warfare, and Mexican cartels.

The US judicial system is designed for American freedoms and the presumption of innocence. Foreign nationals are not Americans, and there is no necessity that they be afforded the liberties and due process of American citizens.  

Action

1. A new court system should be established to prosecute foreign nationals who break the law and pose a security threat. And no more slap on the wrist or deportations. If they breach security laws, they should face significant jail time, followed by deportation.
2. Increase FBI counterintelligence capabilities.
3. Restrict Chinese ownership of land and property in the US. Reciprocity should be the foundation of US national policy. Americans cannot own land in China, so why do we allow Chinese nationals to own or control land in the US?
4. Restrict the number of Chinese students in American universities.
5. Restrict social media TikTok. The recent changes in ownership are window dressing, as a CCP entity still controls the algorithms that drive Americans down rabbit holes of anti-American propaganda and pro-Chinese propaganda. 
6. Americans must recognize the threat posed by the CCP. They are totalitarian communists who lie, cheat, and commit atrocities against humanity. One need not look further than what the CCP has done:
   1. Millions died in famines and persecution
   2. Organ harvesting
   3. Religious persecution
   4. No freedom of speech, political parties, religion, or rule of law.

Peace Through Strength! 

Laurence F. Sanford

Senior Analyst

American Security Council Foundation

www.ascf.us