During a routine secondary inspection by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Kevin Mallory was found to be carrying $16,500 after having declared he was not carrying over $10,000 on his customs forms. The Customs Officer allowed Mallory to amend his form, and Mallory went on his way.
This incident on April 21, 2017, was the beginning of the unraveling of Mallory's espionage relationship with the People's Republic of China's intelligence services
(PRCIS). You see, when Mallory arrived in Chicago, he was arriving from Shanghai, China, where he had just completed a series of meetings with his PRCIS handlers. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Mallory's arrest on June 22, 2017, and made publicly available the criminal complaint against Mallory.
Who is Kevin Mallory? According to the criminal complaint, Mallory is a 60-year-old, self-employed consultant working out of his home in Leesburg, Virginina. He is educated, a graduate of Bringham Young University, is fluent in Mandrin Chinese, and was active duty military from 1981-86. From 1987-90, Mallory worked within the U.S. Department of State, within the Diplomatic Security Service. He left the State Department in 1990 and went to work for a variety of U.S. defense contractors and on U.S. Army active duty deployments from 1990-2013. His foreign assignments included the PRC and Taiwan. His security clearance was terminated in 2012 when he left government service.
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