"Johnny Chien Chuen Chung" (born 1955) was a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy.

Born in Republic of China/Taiwan, Chung was the owner of a "Junk fax/blastfaxing" business (an automated system that quickly sends out faxes to thousands of businesses) in California, United States in the early 1990s. Chung eventually found himself in the middle of the Washington, D.C. elite within a couple weeks of his first donations to the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party. Between 1994 and 1996, Chung donated $366,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Eventually, all of the money was returned. Chung told federal investigators that $35,000 of the money he donated came from People's Republic of China/China's military intelligence.

Called a "hustler" by a United States National Security Council/U.S. National Security Council (NSC) aide Robert Suettinger, Chung befriended former Lt. Col. Liu Chaoying during a United States Commerce Department/Commerce Department trade mission to China.

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I have never sought to do anything that might facilitate any sinister attempt to undermine the interests of my country, the United States, which I love.

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If you really want to do something about this, then change the system that allowed me to, with a few selected donations, attract the interest of the head of Chinese military intelligence.

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