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FBI Albany IIR — Chinese Fraudulent Drivers Licenses for Mail-in Votes (provided to Chairman Grassley)

FBI Intelligence Information ReportSep 25, 20206 pagesFBI_ALBANY_IIR_PROVIDED_TO_CHAIRMAN GRASSLEY .pdf

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  • The document claims that in late August 2020, the Chinese government produced a large amount of fraudulent U.S. drivers licenses secretly exported to the U.S. to allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the CCP to vote for Joe Biden despite being ineligible.

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  • The document claims China collected private US user data from millions of TikTok accounts (name, ID, and address) to create fraudulent licenses with real US persons' information, making them difficult to detect.

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  • The source is described as 'a collaborative source with indirect access, none of whose reporting has been corroborated for less than one year,' and the information was obtained from an unidentified sub-source who claimed to have obtained it from unidentified PRC government officials.

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  • The document warns that the information report has not been finally evaluated and receiving agencies are requested not to take action without prior coordination with the FBI.

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10 sourced claims

Addressed FM DIRECTOR FBI TO ALL FBI FIELD OFFICES, with a wide INFO distribution to defense commands and IC agencies (24AF/543 ISR GP Lackland AFB, USAFRICOM, USEUCOM, USPACOM, USSTRATCOM, USTRANSCOM, INSCOM, NGIC, CIA, DHS, DOJ, State, Treasury, DIA, NSA, DNI, ONI, SECDEF, White House Situation Room, LEGAT/AMEMBASSY Beijing, etc.) (p.1-2).

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China·FBI·NSA·CIA·DHS

Country: United States; China (p.3).

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China

Subject: "Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Drivers Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020" (p.3).

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China

Source described as "a collaborative source with indirect access, none of whose reporting has been corroborated for less than one year"; the source obtained the information from an identified sub-source who claimed to have obtained it from unidentified PRC government officials (p.3).

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China

Warning: information report not finally evaluated; receiving agencies requested not to take action without prior coordination with the FBI; presumption of innocence noted (p.3).

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FBI

Text: in late August 2020 the Chinese government had produced a large amount of fraudulent U.S. drivers licenses secretly exported to the U.S. (NFI), which would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the CCP to vote for U.S. Presidential Candidate Joe Biden despite being ineligible (p.3).

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China

China had collected private US user data from millions of TikTok accounts (name, ID, and address), which would allow the Chinese government to use real US persons' information to create the fraudulent licenses with true ID and true address of US citizens, making them difficult to [detect]; China planned to use the licenses for tens of thousands of mail-in votes (p.4).

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China

Analyst comment: a person's address information was not a valid field when creating a TikTok account, and it was unspecified how China would attain US data from the application; source available for re-contact (p.4).

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China

Dissemination page (partly redacted) lists agencies: CIA, Coast Guard, DHS, FBI, Air Force, Army, DIA, Defense, Navy; State/Local: None (p.5).

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FBI·CIA·DHS

Page 6 is a Bates cover page only (p.6).

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