A prominent voice on US foreign policy with a taste for designer labels is accused of accepting luxury goods in exchange for helping South Korean intelligence.
Sue Mi Terry, a prominent voice on US foreign policy, had a refined palate, a love for top-shelf sushi and a taste for designer labels. She liked coats by Christian Dior, handbags by Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton, and Michelin-starred restaurants.
In Terry’s case, prosecutors say she began operating as a foreign agent in 2013, five years after leaving the CIA. She was first contacted by an intelligence officer posing as a diplomat for the Korean mission to the United Nations in New York City, the indictment said, and in return for her work over the next decade, Terry received handbags, clothing and at least $US37,000 in covert payments to the think tank where she was employed at the time.
In a statement, Lee Wolosky, Terry’s lawyer, said the allegations were unfounded and distorted “the work of a scholar and news analyst known for her independence and years of service to the United States”. Considered an expert on North Korea and broader security issues in the region, Terry has worked not only at the CIA, but at the American National Intelligence Council and National Security Council, places where she produced “hundreds of intelligence assessments,” according to her biography on the Council on Foreign Relations website.
In an interview with the FBI in June 2023, Terry, who was born in Seoul but raised in the United States, admitted that she had resigned from the CIA in 2008 rather than be fired because the agency had “problems” with her contacts with members of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, the indictment said.
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