Locke Lau person
also: Lau, Locke-Low
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Claims (6)
Locke Lau spied_on
China documented
“in a workplace discrimination lawsuit that he filed with the DOJ that he had spied on China in the late 80s and 90s for the FBI and the CIA. Although Lau is prohibited from discussing the specifics of his spy mission because of national sec…”
▶ he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4 @ 26:26
Locke Lau member_of
CIA book_quoted
“And everybody's acting all bent out of shape? Yeah, yeah. Because we don't ever hear about the spies that get caught in China from us. Lau was a CIA operative. He would have been sanctioned to spy internationally as an FBI agent with CIA au…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 14:14
Locke Lau spied_on
China book_quoted
“The author says that he never met Gary Webb, but he had just finished up a major expose about a former FBI agent called Locke Lau in October of 2003. The story exposed the Bureau had used Lau to spy on China in late 1980s and early 1990s. O…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 13:46
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Locke Lau book_quoted
“The Justice Department says it may renew an extraordinary request to let the FBI search and destroy mission on computers harboring classified information about a 1980s case that temporarily became public in a lawsuit. The federal judge prev…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 22:45
FBI removed_from_power
Locke Lau book_quoted
“Lau had completed his mission, however, the U.S. government ignored his resulting PTSD and difficulty in reentering normal society because he lived among a bunch of crooks forever. The FBI eventually fired Lau for performance, prompting him…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 15:53
Locke Lau member_of
FBI book_quoted
“And everybody's acting all bent out of shape? Yeah, yeah. Because we don't ever hear about the spies that get caught in China from us. Lau was a CIA operative. He would have been sanctioned to spy internationally as an FBI agent with CIA au…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 14:14
Mentions (21)
▶ 25:55
That always seems to get left out of the conversation. Former spy and FBI agent Locke Lau says that the Horn case is a perfect illustration of how there is no coordination between the intelligence community and DEA. Well, there is if you ha…
▶ 26:26
in a workplace discrimination lawsuit that he filed with the DOJ that he had spied on China in the late 80s and 90s for the FBI and the CIA. Although Lau is prohibited from discussing the specifics of his spy mission because of national sec…
▶ 26:55
Like Horn, certain pleadings in Lau's employment discrimination case were later stricken and placed under seal. Lau went on to say that the U.S. government was really serious about, if they were really serious about eradicating the drug tra…
▶ 27:27
not to mention the funding for the CIA's covert actions. The CIA can use the proceeds of the drug trade to pay for armies around the world, which we know in fact they do. Lau also says a lot of careers in the intelligence community has been…
▶ 27:54
You take down the very assets whose careers depend on them. Former CIA spy manager Luttrell Osborne, who served during the Cold War, doesn't directly concede Loud's point about the CIA, but did tell the author in an interview, the U.S. adve…
▶ 13:46
The author says that he never met Gary Webb, but he had just finished up a major expose about a former FBI agent called Locke Lau in October of 2003. The story exposed the Bureau had used Lau to spy on China in late 1980s and early 1990s. O…
▶ 14:14
And everybody's acting all bent out of shape? Yeah, yeah. Because we don't ever hear about the spies that get caught in China from us. Lau was a CIA operative. He would have been sanctioned to spy internationally as an FBI agent with CIA au…
▶ 14:48
Three, three. That had been issued in the 80s by President Reagan. Lau, who went undercover posing as a businessman in a successful effort to infiltrate Chinese crime syndicates or business, whatever. In this case, they gave the FBI spy acc…
▶ 15:21
for the CIA. It was extremely dangerous. Deep cover assignment for FBI agent Locke Lau. So basically what he's saying here without saying it is he's CIA pretending to be an FBI agent. He was required to survive inside a criminal underworld …
▶ 15:53
Lau had completed his mission, however, the U.S. government ignored his resulting PTSD and difficulty in reentering normal society because he lived among a bunch of crooks forever. The FBI eventually fired Lau for performance, prompting him…
▶ 16:21
From a declaration filed by Lau in 2003, I'm going to quote, the assignment was extraordinarily dangerous and stressful. I was cut off from my family and friends and the FBI handlers did not remain constant. I later learned I was not treate…
▶ 16:54
From an amicus brief filed with the court in 2003, the League of United Latin American Citizens said this, Lau was involved in espionage activities, kidnappings, trading in human slavery, illegal immigration, murder, torture, kidnapping, ex…
▶ 17:23
penetrated the Chinese triads, the Tang and other Chinese organized crime organizations that trade in all of these things. There is no way that Lao could have performed his undercover so well if he had not engaged in that activity.…
▶ 17:46
Lau claims that in the wake of the spying mission, the FBI was willing to discard him, eventually firing him in 2000. There was a story in a business weekly in Texas that was part of a national newspaper chain that said Lau's career was bas…
▶ 18:12
public court documents filed with the federal court in Sacramento, California, and that is near where Gary Webb was and where Lau lived. The author later recalled reading over a paper that he got a call from a source who told me that the U.…
▶ 18:43
for national security reasons that they wanted them back. I had called the U.S. Attorney's Office for comment on the story, which I suspect triggered the court mention. In the court pleadings, they asked that the government be allowed to se…
▶ 19:13
That meant the journalist computer and potentially the computers of the entire newspaper where he worked. What was mind-blowing to the author about this is when we went to press on Wednesday, the court document pleadings in Lau's employment…
▶ 19:46
Two days later, after the newspaper had printed the stories and the readers read the story, the government was trying to put the documents as classified under national security reasons. That's weird. That's where Gary Webb came into the sto…
▶ 22:16
In October of 2003, the judge determined that he did not have the power to seize all copies of the Locke-Low pleadings existing outside the court's possession because it was literally all over the web. The judge knew, to paraphrase the old …
▶ 22:45
The Justice Department says it may renew an extraordinary request to let the FBI search and destroy mission on computers harboring classified information about a 1980s case that temporarily became public in a lawsuit. The federal judge prev…
▶ 24:47
doing journalism that we don't really want that journalism coming over on this journalism because this isn't real journalism. We're just doing puff shit to sell stuff. So in December, 2003, a few weeks after publishing what turned out to be…