A high-profile prosecution of a Cambodian government official accused and ultimately acquitted of illegally importing long-tailed macaques into the United States may have ultimately exposed a much deeper, troubling level of activity within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – namely an illegal espionage operation in an otherwise friendly nation.
Court documents also reveal the federal government paid a Chinese national over $200,000 and moved his family to the U.S. to act as an informant in a case that ultimately turned into nothing.
