2026年10月4日 / 美国东部时间下午6:21 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
据执法部门消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，联邦调查局在洛杉矶国际机场逮捕了一名涉嫌中国特工，该女子此前 allegedly 监视了台湾地区领导人定居美国的儿子。
现年34岁的张婉莹（网名“希瑟”）是加利福尼亚州尔湾市的一名房产经纪人，周日在她从洛杉矶国际机场登上飞往中国上海的航班前，被联邦执法人员逮捕，罪名是充当未注册的外国政府代理人。
张婉莹的丈夫丁艾德是同一家房产公司的经纪人，周日在电话中接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时表示：“我目前还一无所知”，并拒绝进一步置评。
目前尚不清楚张婉莹是否聘请了律师。
联邦调查局洛杉矶反情报小组的一名成员向联邦法院提交的刑事起诉书指控，张婉莹及其一名同伙于2025年9月前往华盛顿州西雅图市，并在一名台湾地区高级官员家属的郊区住宅外拍照。
执法部门消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，监视目标是赖清德之子赖廷宇。
据台湾媒体报道，现年30多岁的工程师赖廷宇曾在美国读大学，与妻子陈晓（音译）育有一名在美国出生的幼子。他目前就职于荷兰跨国电子公司飞利浦。
“如果中华人民共和国（PRC）希望在任何潜在冲突中对台湾地区领导人施加影响，获取一名台湾地区高级政府官员近亲属的位置和照片，包括其住宅和车辆的照片，可能会对中华人民共和国有所帮助，”联邦调查局特别特工凯文·霍尔特在2026年10月3日的刑事起诉书中写道。
几十年来，台湾地区一直是高度地缘政治紧张局势的焦点。台湾地区宣称自身独立，而中国政府则声称台湾是中国的一部分。该岛屿地处主要航运航线的关键位置，也是全球许多最先进半导体芯片的制造地。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系台湾地区驻美领事馆置评。
起诉书显示，张婉莹和一名仅被列为“人员1”的男子于2025年9月1日从拉斯维加斯飞往西雅图，租了一辆黑色日产奇骏，驾车前往目标住宅。
起诉书中附带的邻居监控摄像头画面据称显示，两人在当天晚上赖廷宇一家返家时“似乎在拍摄”赖廷宇、他的妻子和孩子。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻将画面与西雅图附近一处由赖廷宇所有的地址进行了比对。
起诉书显示，张婉莹据称曾给其中国政府联络员发短信称：“看到他了。年轻男性。就是那个年轻人”，以及“我正在录像”，随后发送了两个车牌号码。
联邦调查局特工写道，从微信（中国即时通讯应用）发来的这些短信是通过搜查令获取张婉莹的iCloud账户后得到的。
“张婉莹至少与两名她似乎承认是中华人民共和国政府工作人员的人保持联系，”该特工写道。
起诉书称，张婉莹于2025年6月通过其母校北京国际关系学院的一名同学结识了其中一名中国政府官员。霍尔特表示，该学院与中国国家安全部关系密切。
霍尔特的宣誓书称，张婉莹在2025年6月的一次访问期间，在中国长沙预订了一间私人包房，据称她在此处与该政府官员会面并领取了监视任务。
根据起诉书，她后来给该官员发短信称：“我能处理好这件事”。
起诉书显示，2025年8月26日，张婉莹写道：“本周我将在洛杉矶忙于工作，下周可能会去西雅图”，该官员回复道：“好的，感谢你的辛勤工作”。
张婉莹是加州JC太平洋资本公司的持牌房产经纪人。她在Zillow的个人资料显示，她在洛杉矶及周边县共有130笔房产交易和挂牌房源。
根据其学术发表的个人简介，赖廷宇于2012年在俄亥俄州克利夫兰的凯斯西储大学获得电气工程学士学位，次年在巴尔的摩的约翰斯·霍普金斯大学获得生物工程创新与设计硕士学位，随后在华盛顿大学生物工程系获得博士学位。
台湾电视新闻三立电视台报道称，他在攻读博士学位期间结识了台湾妻子。据台湾国家通讯社中央社报道，两人于2018年结婚，2020年在美国育有一子。
此前曾有中国政府特工在美国被抓获，罪名是监视和骚扰中国异见人士和亲民主活动人士。
联邦检察官表示，75岁的王书君（音译）为中国国家安全部渗透并监视纽约皇后区的一个中国亲民主组织长达17年。他于2024年因充当外国代理人被定罪。
2023年4月，两名男子因参与曼哈顿的一家非官方中国派出所被捕，该派出所旨在监视中国异见人士。
美国司法部警告称，中国安全部门有一项名为“猎狐行动”的计划，旨在全球范围内遣返被通缉的中国公民，该计划针对的是政权的敌人。
总部位于纽约的安全忠（音译）被检察官称为“猎狐行动”美国分支的头目。他因骚扰一名中国异见人士试图将其遣返回国，于2025年3月被判刑。
在加利福尼亚州，前阿卡迪亚市市长王艾琳（音译）于5月被指控充当中国代理人。她承认曾收受报酬在美国传播亲中国政府的宣传内容，包括在其博客上发表文章否认中国存在“强迫劳动”。
FBI arrests alleged Chinese agent at LAX after she allegedly surveilled son of Taiwanese president
October 4, 2026 / 6:21 PM EDT / CBS News
The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president’s U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News.
Wanying “Heather” Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, was cuffed by federal law enforcement on Sunday before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China, from LAX, on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
Zhang’s husband Edric Ding, a realtor at the same firm, told CBS News when reached by phone Sunday: “I don’t know anything yet,” and declined to comment further.
It was not immediately clear if Zhang has an attorney.
A criminal complaint, filed in federal court by a member of the FBI’s counterintelligence squad in L.A., accused Zhang and an accomplice of traveling to Seattle, Washington, in September 2025 and taking pictures at the suburban home of a top Taiwanese official’s family.
Wanying “Heather” Zhang. FBI
Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the target was Ting-Yu Lai, the son of Taiwanese President Ching-Te Lai.
Ting-Yu, an engineer in his 30s, attended college in America and has a young U.S.-born son with his wife, Hsiao Chen, according to Taiwanese media reports. He now works for the Dutch multinational electronics firm Philips.
“If the PRC [People’s Republic of China] wish to obtain leverage over the President of Taiwan during any potential conflict, the location and pictures of the close relatives of a high-ranking Taiwanese government official, including pictures of their homes and cars, could be useful to the PRC,” wrote FBI Special Agent Kevin Holt in the Oct. 3, 2026, criminal complaint.
Taiwan has been the focus of high geopolitical tensions for decades. It asserts its independence, while the Chinese government claims it is part of China. The island is in a key position astride major shipping lanes, and is where many of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips are manufactured.
CBS News reached out to the Taiwanese consulate for comment.
The complaint said Zhang, 34, and a man named only as “Individual 1” flew from Las Vegas to Seattle on Sept. 1, 2025, rented a black Nissan Rogue and drove to their target’s home.
Images from a neighbor’s security camera included in the complaint allegedly show the two “appearing to film” Ting-Yu, his wife and their child as they arrived home that evening.
CBS News matched the images to an address near Seattle owned by Ting-Yu.
Zhang allegedly texted her Chinese government handler: “Saw him. Young male. It’s that young one,” and “I am videorecording,” followed by two license plate numbers, according to the complaint.
The FBI agent wrote that the texts from the Chinese messaging app WeChat were obtained from a search warrant on Zhang’s iCloud account.
“Zhang was in contact with at least two people whom she appeared to acknowledge worked for the PRC government,” the agent wrote.
FBI agents arrested Wanying “Heather” Zhang at Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 4, 2026. U.S. Department of Justice
The complaint claims Zhang was introduced in June 2025 to one of the Chinese government officials by a classmate from her alma mater, Beijing’s University of International Relations, which Holt said has close ties to the Ministry of State Security.
Holt’s affidavit claims Zhang booked a private room in Changsha, China, during a June 2025 trip, where she allegedly met the government official and received her surveillance mission.
She later texted the official, “I can take care of this thing,” according to the complaint.
On Aug. 26, 2025, Zhang wrote: “I will be busy with work in L.A. this week. I will probably go to Seattle next week,” and the official replied: “Ok. Thank you for your hard work,” the complaint said.
Zhang is a licensed California realtor with JC Pacific Capital Inc. Her Zillow profile says she has 130 sales and listings around Los Angeles and neighboring counties.
Ting-Yu received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2012; a master’s in Bioengineering Innovation and Design from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the following year; then a PhD from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, according to a profile from one of his academic publications.
Taiwan TV news station SETN reported that he met his Taiwanese wife while studying for his doctorate. They married in 2018 and had a child in the U.S. in 2020, according to CNA, Taiwan’s national news agency.
Chinese government agents have previously been caught spying on and harassing Chinese dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the U.S.
Federal prosecutors said Shujun Wang, 75, infiltrated and informed on a Chinese pro-democracy group in Queens, New York, for the Chinese Ministry of State Security for 17 years. He was convicted in 2024 of acting as a foreign agent.
Two people were arrested in April 2023 for their involvement in an unofficial Chinese police station in Manhattan set up to monitor Chinese dissidents.
The Justice Department has warned of a plan by the Chinese security services called Operation Fox Hunt aimed at repatriating wanted Chinese nationals around the world, which targets enemies of the regime.
New York-based Quanzhong An, who prosecutors say is a leader of the U.S. wing of Operation Fox Hunt, was sentenced in March 2025 after harassing a Chinese dissident in an attempt to bring them back to China.
In California, former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang was charged with acting as a Chinese agent in May. She admitted to being paid to spread pro-Chinese government propaganda in the U.S., including an essay on her blog denying “forced labor” in China.
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