Response to Conrad Wilgus

Dear Editor,

I hope you afford me the same opportunity you did for Wilgus.  As for being on an intelligence committee and not knowing about Fang, no one on the committee knew about her until the CIA/NSA began to investigate her.  Fang began her associations with American politicians many years before the investigations of her began.  She established relationships with many types of politicians from mayors to congressmen.  Many people establish relationships with politicians, and until otherwise known or suspected, those politicians assume those people have good intensions.  Intelligence agencies do not investigate someone, unless they do something suspicious.  In this case, Fang evidently did something that aroused their suspicions, but not until she had already supported politicians for many years.  So…. Yes it is possible to be on an intelligence committee and not know that a supporter is a spy.  The incident was a failure of intelligence, not Swalwell.

–Robert Thomas, Castro Valley