When they run operations like this they like to feed fake info to people they know are spying which pisses off the recipient when exposed because they have no way to know what reality is at that point.Aint no honeypot if they already gave secrets
They did the same thing to this GE Aviation spy
Former GE Power Engineer Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Economic Espionage
A Real-life Spy Story
How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing reach of Chinese espionage.
www.nytimes.com