Johnny Chung tells all

In an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview with Johnny Chung, the former
Democratic Party fund-raiser and frequent White House guest reveals how
he became immersed in international intrigue, illegally channeled
Chinese military money to the president, and later cooperated with the
Justice Department — only to run into a brick wall around the
president.

An Asian-American businessman from Southern California, Chung wanted
his company to be a success. In his pursuit of the American dream,
Chung found himself inside the Clinton White House with Chinese Army
officers.

“I am not a Chinese agent,” Johnny Chung said firmly. “I want to
make it clear to every single person that I have told the truth.
America has a right to know the truth. Make sure that all the details
are clear.”

“Now when I look back on it all,” said Chung, reflecting on the
events, “I was trying to ‘put powder on my face.’ I was trying to look
good by inviting big businessmen from Asian companies inside the White
House. The access to President Clinton made me and my business look
good. In Asia you need to get close to people in power. I found much
the same to be true in Washington, D.C.”

Chung made it clear that his access to the flower of American
political power, the Oval Office, made him popular. Suddenly, Chung
became all too popular in the wrong circles.

“It was my 57 trips to the White House that attracted the Chinese
army attention,” stated Chung. “Attracted Colonel Liu Chao Ying. At
first, all I knew was she was the daughter of a famous Chinese General.
I did not know she too was a Chinese officer. I thought she was no
different than, say, the daughter of Gen. Colin Powell. She said she
would help my business.”

“On Aug. 7, 1996, I went on a trip to Hong Kong with my daughter and
her girlfriend,” said Chung. “Just me, father Chung, and two teen-age
girls. On Aug. 11, we took a shopping tour of Zhuhai, a city across the
border from Macau, inside red China.”

“Suddenly I received an urgent phone call from Liu Chao Ying,”
explained Chung. “She said I had to have dinner in Hong Kong with a
very important man from Beijing. I accepted and left Zhuhai by ferry,
leaving my daughter with a close friend of mine who lives on the
mainland.”

“Liu Chao Ying picked me up in her car in Hong Kong and took me to
the restaurant,” explained Chung. “She told me that the man we were
going to meet with was very important. Liu said that I should talk
myself up and she encouraged me to show him my
brochure. Liu Chao Ying told me that I was much more impressive than
Charlie Trie, because I had better connections than Trie.”

“At the restaurant, Liu made a cell phone call from the basement,”
noted Chung. “I asked her how she could make a cell call from the
basement. She said there was special antenna. I thought this was
certainly curious.”

“When the man arrived,” said Chung, “he came in through the kitchen,
not the street. I thought this was odd. He said my name is ‘Mr. Xu’
which was his way of saying my name is ‘Mr. Smith’. He seemed to be
very powerful and Liu acted as if she were his subordinate.”

“I told him about a recent trip to Washington, D.C., where I met with
President Clinton and he listened carefully. Then he told me three
things: ‘We really like your president. We would like to see him
re-elected. I will give you $300,000 U.S. dollars and you give it to
the president and the Democrat Party.'”

“I was somewhat startled by this proposal, and I wondered who this
man really was,” said Chung. “I knew this was not right. I also began
to wonder about my child. I wondered if I needed to worry about her
safety. I certainly didn’t want to insult this guy or insult Liu, so I
kept my mouth shut.”

“The man then left through the kitchen,” said Chung. “When we left,
no one paid the bill.”

“I really wanted to know who this man was,” said Chung firmly.
“However, Liu urged me to be quiet. When I got in the car with her, she
put her finger up to her lips, noting that I should not talk while in
the car with the driver.”

“After we got out of the car, she pulled me aside and told me who the
mystery man was. She told me his name was Gen. Ji, the military
intelligence director of the People’s Liberation Army!” exclaimed Chung.

“At this point, I knew it was bad,” said Chung. “Now I was really
worried about my kid in Zhuhai. I know what the Chinese army can do to
innocent people. I knew that I had to get my kid and her friend out of
Zhuhai at once.

“Two days later I met with Gen. Ji again, this time at their hotel
next to mine in Hong Kong,” said Chung. “It was there he ordered Liu to
wire me the $300,000. Gen. Ji said to her in front of me ‘I will wire
you the $300,000 and you can wire it to him. I need a receipt so I can
report to the organization.’

“One week after I gave my testimony to Congress, Gen. Ji was
demoted,” said Chung with some satisfaction. “He went from director of
the Chinese army intelligence to being a teacher.”

“Let my banking records speak for themselves,” stated Chung flatly.
“My banking records are the proof the money came from the Chinese army.
I gave all my records to the Department of Justice, but they have yet to
give them to Congress.”

One China specialist confirmed Chung’s fears about Zhuhai and the
Chinese army. “Zhuhai is a military city. It is controlled by the
People’s Liberation Army,” stated William Triplett, co-author of a new
book “Red Dragon Rising.”

“Chung should have been under surveillance by PLA intelligence agents
with General Ji the whole time,” added Triplett. “The PLA operation
against America is very similar to our successful use of American
organized crime bosses, the so-called ‘Mafia’, to penetrate Sicily and
Italy during World War II.”

In addition, Chung’s assertion that his banking records were not
turned over to Congress by the Justice Department is also true,
according to a former House prosecutor. “We were unable to get anything
out of the Department of Justice,” stated David Schippers, who
prosecuted President Clinton during the 1998 impeachment trial.

“DOJ put up a brick wall,” Schippers told WorldNetDaily. “We had
zero cooperation from DOJ. We got no records on Johnny Chung.”

However, one thing Chung made very clear is that he still fears the
powerful Chinese army. In 1998, Robert Luu, a suspected Chinese
operative, approached Chung. Over the course of several meetings, Luu
asked Chung to engage in a cover-up — to hide the sources of the money
he had funneled to the Democrat party in the 1996 campaign.

“I cooperated with the FBI,” said Chung. “In the summer of 1997 I
gave the Department of Justice all of my banking records voluntarily.
On March 9, 1998, I pled guilty and was immediately approached by
Robert Luu.”

“I wore an FBI microphone when I met with Robert Luu,” explained
Chung. “I was ‘scripted’ by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Everything I said and did at that point was scripted by the Department
of Justice and the FBI. I did exactly what they told me.

“At one of the first meetings, Robert Luu asked me to keep quiet,”
explained Chung. “He told me to take the FBI around and around in
circles. Robert Luu made it clear that he got his salary from Beijing.
He told me to keep my mouth shut and everything would be fine. He said
if I did remain silent I could retire in style.

“He then asked me about my health, and about my wife and family,”
said Chung. “He even hinted at a Presidential pardon for me. He said
that high ranking officials in Beijing and in Washington agreed that I
would get a presidential pardon if I went to jail.

“However,” said Chung. “During the next meeting, Luu told me he knew
that he was being taped. He knew about the FBI surveillance from
inside.

“After that, I was told by an assistant U.S. attorney, ‘This case is
over.’ I asked him what I should do if someone tried to kill me. He
said to call 911,” stated Chung with disgust. “The ‘call 911’ statement
came from the same guy who also prosecuted another of Beijing’s
‘postal-boys’ from Los Angeles in the Clinton campaign finance scandal.

“Have there been threats on my life?” asked Chung. “I am under
government protection because I will not remain silent. On March 20,
1999, the FBI arrested one man with a gun who tried to get to me at my
office. My thanks go out to the brave FBI. It doesn’t take much
imagination to figure out who would benefit from silencing me forever.”

“I want to correct some things,” said Chung. “I refuse to be a
scapegoat. I was never an agent for COSCO (China Ocean Shipping
Company), the Chinese shipping firm that tried to buy the port in Long
Beach. I don’t know any COSCO people. I do not know Li Ka-Shing. The
COSCO story is a disinformation campaign run by the real people who
supported the Long Beach purchase.”

“I am thousands of dollars in debt,” said Chung. “There is a lien on
my business. I don’t know how to put food on the table for my family.
Yet, I did not run. I did not hide. I am willing to face the heat
because I made a mistake. I am willing to pay the price because I am an
American.”

In November 1999, the California Franchise Tax Board initiated a lien
against Chung’s company. Interestingly, the “lien” on Chung’s business
came 48 hours after he made a speech for at a
Judicial Watch
conference. Chung believes the financial
pressure may be coming from a level much higher than California.

“I have a message for them,” said Chung. “You can put a lien on my
property, but you can’t put a lien on my soul. You can’t put a lien on
my love for America.”