answered at the trial is if yujing jang was a spy for the chinese. she wasn t charged with espionage, but a person familiar with the situation told cnn her case has been connected to a larger federal probe of potential chinese spying efforts. former fbi counterintelligence agent eric o neill says it s possible she wasn t a spy or that she could have been an informal operative, someone who was not fully trained, but who chinese officials loosely sent in to test security. to see how easy it is to get into mar-a-lago. and if she does get in there, she could have a basic knowledge of intelligence gathering to extract some intelligence, such as, what kind of people are in mar-a-lago? how do you get toward where trump might be? cnn has reached out to chinese authorities multiple times, but so far they have not responded to the suggestions that yujing jang might have been spying for them. friends and family of hers have described her to the miami herald as a mere tunnist w iop