美国海军华裔军官涉嫌向中国传递情报

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.

美国海军(US Navy)考虑以间谍罪控告一名负责情报收集的军官，这名军官涉嫌向中国大陆和台湾传递秘密信息。

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.

美国官员称，海军少校爱德华•林(Edward Lin)是一名生于台湾的归化美国公民，曾在海军侦察机上工作。除了面临可能的间谍罪指控（美国现役军人很少受到这种指控），林少校还面临通奸和召妓指控。

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.

这些指控是在上周五的所谓“初步听证会”(Article 32 hearing)上宣布的，而公开发布的指控内容经过大量的编辑。此案是由美国海军研究所（US Naval Institute，简称USNI）管理的《USNI新闻》(USNI News)率先报道的。

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年加入美国海军，曾为一名助理海军部长作了两年的国会联络官，还曾在艾森豪威尔号(USS Eisenhower)航母上待过。根据美国海军研究所的说法，他最近的岗位是在夏威夷一个机构的总部工作，该机构掌管着包括EP-3E在内的一些侦察机。

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.

白宫发言人乔希•欧内斯特(Josh Earnest)证实，一名美国海军军官被关在弗吉尼亚州切萨皮克(Chesapeake)的美国海军联合禁闭所(Navy Consolidated Brig)、并面临可能的间谍罪指控。一名美国官员表示，林少校涉嫌向中国大陆和台湾传递信息。

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”.

经过编辑的指控书称，林少校正因两项间谍罪和三项间谍未遂罪指控接受调查，他还被控传递“有意或有理由认为会被用来使他国获利”的秘密信息。

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，他还面临召妓、通奸、以及未向美国政府披露境外旅行并在事后撒谎的指控。这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，美国海军一份刊物在一篇文章中描述了林少校归化为美国公民的情况。文章援引他的话称：“我一直梦想来到美国这块‘应许之地’。”文章披露他是14岁时离开的台湾。“我从小就认为，在美国，条条大路都通往迪士尼乐园(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.

他还向该刊表示，他报名上学时不得不求助于一名翻译，包括帮他填写必要的文件。文章援引他的话称：“我几乎只会拼写‘ABC'。那时候我知道的唯一一个美国名字是埃迪(Eddy)。”