Glenn Duffie Shriver (born 1981) is an American convicted of conspiracy to spy for China.
Shriver was born in Henrico County VA, near Richmond. When his parents separated in 1983, he moved with his mother to the Jenison area of Michigan. He was a resident of Georgetown Township MI. He attended middle school through his second (sophomore) year
in Wyoming MI, and then Jenison High School.

He attended Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Allendale MI. In 2001, he took part in a 45-day summer study program in Shanghai, China. He subsequently spent his junior year at East China Normal University, also in Shanghai. After graduating from
GVSU in 2004 with a bachelor's in Int'l Relations, Shriver returned to Shanghai to work and to study the Chinese language, in which he eventually became proficient. He had a few acting jobs in the Chinese film industry.

In about 2004 Shriver answered an ad to write a paper about U.S.–China relations with regard to Taiwan and North Korea. A Chinese woman calling herself "Amanda" praised his paper and paid him US$120. This was a type of low-key initial approach, common
while recruiting intel operatives. Amanda eventually introduced Shriver to a "Mr. Wu" and "Mr. Wang". Amanda, Wu, and Wang, all operatives of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, encouraged him to apply for jobs with the United States government or
law enforcement, rather than the more common approach of recruiting an existing agent.

Soon they told him they were interested in obtaining classified material, and paid him $10,000 to take the US Foreign Service Exam in Shanghai in 2005, though he failed to pass. He was paid $20,000 for a second attempt at the exam in 2006 which also
failed. Shriver next applied for a position as a clandestine officer with the National Clandestine Service branch of the CIA in 2007. This time he requested and received payment of $40,000 from the Chinese. He took the money to the U.S., but failed to
report it, as required by law.

Shriver enjoyed China so much that he returned there as an English teacher and then lived in South Korea, where he became the fiancé of Yumi Kim. Kim was so impressed with Shriver's love of America that she nicknamed him "Mr. Patriot." In February 2010,
when he was in the final stages of processing for a position with the CIA, he lied in order to conceal his involvement with Chinese intel operatives. His CIA interviews took place June 7 through June 14 of that year, and he lied during these interviews.
Unbeknownst to Shriver, the CIA had learned of his connections early on in the hiring process. The CIA and FBI have not subsequently disclosed how they discovered Shriver had been recruited by the Chinese govt, but stated it was not through normal
background investigations.

The FBI detained him after his CIA interviews. Employees in the agencies debated on whether to use him as a double agent.

In June 2010 Shriver was arrested while trying to depart Detroit Metro Wayne Co. Airport for South Korea and charged with 5 counts of "making false statements" and one count of "willfully conspiring to provide national defense information to intelligence
officers of the PRC". He was denied bail and prosecuted by Stephen M. Campbell, a US attorney in Alexandria VA. He was held in the Alexandria City Jail.

Shriver was facing up to 10 years in prison under the Espionage Act of 1917 18 U.S. Code § 793 "Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information", but the prosecutor had also threatened him with a prosecution under 18 USC § 794 "Gathering or
delivering defense information to aid foreign government" which had a maximum of life imprisonment. Shriver pleaded guilty in Oct. 2010 to one count of conspiracy to commit unlawful conveyance of national defense info as part of a plea bargain which
included a full debriefing and polygraph testing. On Jan. 21, 2011 he was sentenced to four years in prison by judge Liam O'Grady.

At the time of Shriver's arrest the case only attracted media attention in Michigan.

Shriver had met with his handlers about 20 times, most often "Amanda", and taken $70,000. Shriver said "I made a terrible decision. Somewhere along the way I got into bed with the wrong people. I can't tell you what it’s like to carry a dark secret
like this for so many years." Prof. Geling Shang, one of the leaders of Shriver's summer study group, had worried that Shriver had no sense of what he wanted to do with his life. Shriver stated that he had been motivated by greed. He served his sentence
at the Federal Correctional Institution near Elkton OH, with Kim saying she would wait for him.

Wang Baodong, speaking for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said the Chinese government does not do anything to harm the interests of other countries and that the allegations against Shriver will be proven false. This is the normal comment by the
Chinese government in cases of foreign espionage. Between March 2008 and July 2010, 44 individuals were convicted by the US Dept of Justice in 26 cases involving espionage on behalf of China. According to David Wise of The Washingtonian, Shriver was the
first known case in which China tried to recruit an American to set up as a mole within the CIA, although the method has been attempted by other countries.

He received an international business master's degree during his incarceration. Shriver was released from federal prison in late 2013.

After Shriver's arrest, Peimin Ni and Geling Shang, professors at Grand Valley State involved in the university's China study abroad program, were searched by US airport security while flying from the US and interviewed by the FBI.

Shriver's experience was dramatized in the short film Game of Pawns, produced by Rocket Media Group, in association with the Counter-Intelligence Unit of the FBI and released online in April 2014. One of the film's goals was to warn students of dangers
in China. It featured the actor Joshua Murray as Shriver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver

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