Counterfeit Lies

EPILOGUE

No one was ever prosecuted for the espionage, murders, and other crimes committed during the course of what the CIA and FBI called “Operation Counterfeit Lies.”

The Department of Justice and the Director of National Intelligence declared all the activities and events that took place during the undercover operation to be part of a Foreign Intelligence Activity. The DNI classified all files, debriefs, and audiovisual surveillance recordings as Top Secret.

The undercover recording devices and associated memory chips worn by Gabe Chong and Jake Kruse during the operation were placed in an FBI evidence container and transferred to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. They subsequently disappeared.

All U.S. government participants in Operation Counterfeit Lies were compelled to sign nondisclosure agreements pledging to never reveal what they knew of the operation or the DPRK-Iran nuclear weapons deal.

Park Soon Yong agreed to become an undercover asset of the CIA and the FBI. To maintain his cover, the $2.9 million in Supernotes was replaced with real currency and he continues to operate a global import-export business from Los Angeles. His case officer is named Wilson.

Olivia Knox was promoted and assigned to head the National Counterterrorism Center under the Director of National Intelligence.

Charles Hafner has been named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI office in Anchorage, Alaska.

H. Daniel Reid and three of his former clients were arrested in Hawaii and charged with “possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.”

Trey Bennett and Brian Carter are still assigned to the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI.

The DPRK continues to refine fissile material and build nuclear warheads for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Gabe Chong, “Cheech” to his Marine Corps buddies, will never be publicly recognized for his valor. Retired Marine Major General Peter Newman and FBI Special Agent James “Jake” Kruse were the only “outsiders” invited to the closed ceremony when Gabe’s sacrifice was honored by an anonymous star on the wall at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The tiny device hidden in Gabe’s clothing recorded what happened to him. A portion of the classified citation for his National Intelligence Medal cites Gabe for “extraordinary bravery and devotion to duty. Despite brutal and prolonged torture that led to his death, National Clandestine Service officer Chong never revealed the identity of another U.S. Agent who likely would have been killed.”

Jake Kruse remains undercover and knows he is the other “U.S. Agent” mentioned in the classified citation. He also knows that had it not been for Gabe’s courage, his best friend’s son would never call him “Uncle Jake.”