Declan Ganley
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Declan Ganley
@declanganley
Entrepreneur, Patented Inventor, Chairman & CEO @RivadaNetworks & @RivadaSpace. Tweets in personal capacity.


The terrifying reality of modern espionage isn’t a foreign operative breaching a secure facility; it is a homegrown American insider selling out his nation from the shadows. For over a decade, Thomas Pauken II lived a double life. Writing under the pseudonym Tom McGregor to hide his family ties, he embedded himself in Beijing's state propaganda machine, working for China Radio International, CCTV, CGTN, and Xinhua. Beyond writing headlines, Pauken secretly authored confidential intelligence reports for China’s Ministry of State Security. His handler assured him these briefings went directly to President Xi Jinping. Pauken was uniquely positioned to infiltrate American power. He is the son of a Reagan administration official and former Texas Republican Party chairman. When he returned to the U.S. in January 2025, the FBI confronted him but kept him on a long leash. For over a year, federal agents monitored him as he actively worked to place a high-level asset inside the incoming Trump administration. The trap sprung in February 2026 at a Washington hotel. Under FBI surveillance, Pauken met a job-seeker who now works at a U.S. government agency. Pauken handed over a dedicated cell phone and laptop, offered a $10,000 cash bonus, and demanded weekly policy reports for Beijing. He later admitted to the FBI he was "80 percent sure" this setup would result in classified secrets being funneled straight to China. He was arrested immediately and remains in federal custody. Pauken faces a single felony count under 18 USC 951 for acting as an unregistered agent of China, carrying up to 10 years in prison. His attorney downplayed the severity, arguing Pauken merely failed to file paperwork for routine professional work rather than committing active espionage. While technically true of the specific charge, it is a highly charitable spin for an operation designed to feed U.S. intelligence to an adversarial superpower. Disturbingly, the individual who took the laptop and cash still works inside a U.S. government agency, and no public charges against them have been reported. Furthermore, the Department of Justice issued no press release, keeping the case entirely sealed for ten days before quietly opening the docket ahead of a May 29 pre-indictment plea hearing. A veteran of Chinese state media nearly placed a paid informant inside the administration, and the public almost never heard about it. #UnveiledChina #CCPEspionage #NationalSecurity #FBICrackdown #ForeignAgents #MinistryOfStateSecurity #BeijingInfiltration #USPolitics





While everyone was glued to the U.S. and Iran contest in the Middle East, a wild Cold War-style cat and mouse game was quietly being played in the North Atlantic. In April, the UK MoD confirmed that it was involved in a month-long hunt, tracking a Russian submarine package in the GIUK Gap. We're talking at least three hulls - an Akula-class and two ultra-secret GUGI-class spy subs - most likely mapping critical deep-sea infrastructure. 1/2 🧵








🚨 Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas States the 'right to life' is the first right and essential to all other rights 'When this fundamental right is denied — as in the cases of induced abortion, killing of the innocent and euthanasia — we are faced with choices that the Church considers gravely wrong'



Russia’s shadow fleet is not only a sanctions-evasion network —it presents a sustained hybrid war threat at sea. ACLED maps underwater infrastructure damage, drone activities, vessel seizures & Russian naval counter-moves in the Baltic and North Sea.🔗acleddata.com/report/russias…





