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Glam ex-CIA analyst denies she’s a South Korean spy, runs red light in cab to flee from The Post
By Jack Morphet, Ben Kochman, Matt Troutman,
2024-07-18
A glamorous ex-CIA analyst accused of working as a secret agent for South Korea dodged The Post’s questions over the bombshell allegations — hailing a taxi and apparently having it run a red light to make her escape.
Sue Mi Terry, 54, left her nearly $2 million Upper West Side home Thursday morning — two days after the feds arrested her on charges of acting as a foreign agent — nervously looking at her phone and checking over her shoulder.
The Post caught up with Terry outside a West 72nd Street medical office, where she tried to avoid questions by unsuccessfully hailing a cab that wouldn’t take her, telling a reporter “I am very late” and ultimately denying she was a foreign agent.
When The Post asked why she was charged, she replied: “It will all be explained”.
Sue Mi Terry nervously walked around the Upper West Side Thursday morning. Robert Miller
She kept checking her phone as she went into a doctors office. Robert Miller Terry hailed a cab that blew through a red light in an apparent attempt to elude The Post. Robert Miller
Terry then hopped in a cab that drove aimlessly around the Upper East Side before stopping near Park Avenue, where she appeared to pay the cabbie.
But Terry stayed in the cab, which sped off and ran a red light.
Terry’s skittish antics came after she and her husband Max Boot, a Washington Post national security columnist, put up their tony Upper West Side apartment as collateral for her $500,000 personal recognizance bond as a condition of her release before trial.
The six-room, $1.8 million turn-of-the-century home features lavish wood paneling, built-in bookcase, stained glass windows and airy 10-foot ceilings, according to its StreetEasy listing.
Terry and her husband Max Boot, a Washington Post columnist, live in a luxurious Upper West Side apartment. Douglas Elliman/real estate The couple put up the $1.8 million apartment up for collateral to secure Terry’s release before trial. Douglas Elliman/real estate
The taste for such luxury is what allegedly drove Terry — a native of Seoul who formerly worked as a CIA analyst before becoming a prominent policy expert linked to several think tanks — to disclose US secrets to South Korean spies, Manhattan federal prosecutors said.
Terry traded her access to information from top US officials, including US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in exchange for luxury goodies such as a $3,450 Louis Vuitton handbag and a $2,845 Dolce & Gabbana coat, prosecutors said.
During Terry’s mad dash from The Post, she appeared to have swapped out designer duds for a more understated look of cut-off straight leg jeans, a sleeveless blouse and chunky heel ankle boots.
Prosecutors said Terry’s taste for luxury prompted her to give South Korean operatives access to US officials. NYPost
Outside Terry’s home, a man who appeared to be Boot – and bedecked in a casual ensemble of exercise clothes, flip flops and a California Golden Bears cap – handed off an Apple laptop to the driver of a black Cadillac Escalade.
He then spotted a Post reporter and photographer, crossed the street to take photographs of them, their car and license plate.
After dodging questions about whether he was Max Boot and if he would comment on the charges, he crossed back over the street and walked inside the building without saying a word.
As part of her bail conditions, Terry also had to give up her passport. Her next court date is July 30.
Her lawyer Lee Wolosky — a politically well-connected attorney and diplomat whom President Biden had picked as a White House counsel — contended in a statement that the accusations against Terry were unfounded and, without providing corroboration, maintained she was also a harsh critic of the South Korean government during the years when the feds say she worked as a foreign agent.
He maintained, without providing corroboration, that Terry was also a harsh critic of the South Korean government during the years when the feds say she worked as a foreign agent.
“Once the facts are made clear it will be evident the government made a significant mistake,” he said.
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