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Chinese spy Christine Fang — also known as “Fang Fang” — had an impressive run infiltrating California politics that included Ambien-fueled romps with disgraced Rep.Eric Swalwell before vanishing back to her home country, newly released FBI files show.The “narcissistic” honeypot reportedly bragged of her seductive exploits, launched an illegal fundraising scheme and was nearly recruited for a top-secret FBI counterintelligence as she sought “money” and “power” during her roughly four years in the Unites States, investigators wrote in documents made public by the White House Transparency Task Force.
Fang was known to FBI investigators as “Rusty Thumbs,” according to an FBI memo dated June 2013.The comely Chinese national hooked up with Swalwell on several occasions — once brazenly showing up at his East Bay apartment and announcing that she wasn’t wearing any underwear, per the files.
She bragged to FBI investigators of family ties to the Chinese Communist Party, claiming she would sing for high-level officials as a child and that she worked as a flight attendant on China’s version of Air Force One.Described as a “striking individual” who presented herself as wealthy and fashionable, Fang easily wormed her way into California political circles by volunteering at events and fundraisers with Swalwell, former Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, according to investigative notes.
Fang and Swalwell met in 2012, when he was not yet in congress, and communicated often through text messages and email.Swalwell later copped to investigators that he saw her once every couple of months, but believed the friends-with-benefits arrangement was only “casual.” The two even “hooked up” while Swalwell was on Ambien, the disgraced rep admitted to investigators.
Fang’s parents were believed to be associated with China’s Ministry of State Security.The FBI even attempted to recruit her as a counterintelligence agent, ...