美國海軍華裔軍官涉嫌向中國傳遞情報

The US Navy is considering espionage charges against an officer involved in intelligence collection who is suspected of passing secret information to China and Taiwan.

美國海軍(US Navy)考慮以間諜罪控告一名負責情報收集的軍官，這名軍官涉嫌向中國大陸和臺灣傳遞祕密信息。

Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, a naturalised US citizen born in Taiwan, worked on naval spy aircraft, according to US officials. As well as potential espionage charges — rare for a member of the military on active duty — Lt Cmdr Lin is facing accusations of adultery and hiring a prostitute.

美國官員稱，海軍少校愛德華•林(Edward Lin)是一名生於臺灣的歸化美國公民，曾在海軍偵察機上工作。除了面臨可能的間諜罪指控（美國現役軍人很少受到這種指控），林少校還面臨通姦和召妓指控。

The charges were aired last Friday at a so-called Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury, and have been published in heavily redacted form. The case was first reported by USNI News, which is managed by the US Naval Institute.

這些指控是在上週五的所謂“初步聽證會”(Article 32 hearing)上宣佈的，而公開發布的指控內容經過大量的編輯。此案是由美國海軍研究所（US Naval Institute，簡稱USNI）管理的《USNI新聞》(USNI News)率先報道的。

Lt Cmdr Lin, who joined the Navy in 1999, spent two years as a congressional liaison for an assistant secretary of the Navy and had a tour on the USS Eisenhower, an aircraft carrier. In his most recent job he worked at the headquarters of a Hawaii-based group that operates intelligence aircraft, including the EP-3E, one of the navy’s most secret aircraft, according to USNI.

林少校1999年加入美國海軍，曾爲一名助理海軍部長作了兩年的國會聯絡官，還曾在艾森豪威爾號(USS Eisenhower)航母上待過。根據美國海軍研究所的說法，他最近的崗位是在夏威夷一個機構的總部工作，該機構掌管着包括EP-3E在內的一些偵察機。

Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, confirmed that a US Navy officer was being held at the Navy Consolidated Brig in Chesapeake, Virginia, and was facing potential espionage charges. A US official said there were suspicions Lt Cmdr Lin had passed information to both China and Taiwan.

白宮發言人喬希•歐內斯特(Josh Earnest)證實，一名美國海軍軍官被關在弗吉尼亞州切薩皮克(Chesapeake)的美國海軍聯合禁閉所(Navy Consolidated Brig)、並面臨可能的間諜罪指控。一名美國官員表示，林少校涉嫌向中國大陸和臺灣傳遞信息。

The redacted charge sheet said he was being investigated on two counts of espionage and three of attempted espionage and was accused of communicating secret information “with intent or reason to believe it would be used to the advantage of a foreign nation”.

經過編輯的指控書稱，林少校正因兩項間諜罪和三項間諜未遂罪指控接受調查，他還被控傳遞“有意或有理由認爲會被用來使他國獲利”的祕密信息。

He also faces accusations of hiring a prostitute, committing adultery and not disclosing foreign travel to the US government, which he later lied about. The document gives no indication of the identity of his legal representative.

此外，他還面臨召妓、通姦、以及未向美國政府披露境外旅行並在事後撒謊的指控。這份文件未披露林少校法定代理人的身份。

In 2008 Lt Cmdr Lin was profiled in a navy publication in an article about his naturalisation as a US citizen. “I always dreamt about coming to America, the ‘promised land’,” he was quoted as saying, revealing that he had left Taiwan at the age of 14. “I grew up believing that all the roads in America lead to Disneyland.”

2008年，美國海軍一份刊物在一篇文章中描述了林少校歸化爲美國公民的情況。文章援引他的話稱：“我一直夢想來到美國這塊‘應許之地’。”文章披露他是14歲時離開的臺灣。“我從小就認爲，在美國，條條大路都通往迪士尼樂園(Disneyland)。”

He told the publication a translator had to help him register for school, including filling out the required paperwork. “I was barely able to spell ‘ABC’. The only name that I knew back then as an American name was Eddy,” he was quoted as saying.

他還向該刊表示，他報名上學時不得不求助於一名翻譯，包括幫他填寫必要的文件。文章援引他的話稱：“我幾乎只會拼寫‘ABC'。那時候我知道的唯一一個美國名字是埃迪(Eddy)。”