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A retired Department of Homeland Security agent who claims to have worked as a “security specialist” for Elon Musk at SpaceX was one of five men indicted as part of an alleged scheme to discredit US-based critics of the Chinese government, court filings revealed this week. Derrick Taylor, a 60-year-old now working as a private investigator based out of Irvine, Calif., was charged for his ties to what the fed’s described as a “transnational repression scheme to silence critics of the People’s Republic of China Residing in the United States.” Taylor is alleged to have destroyed evidence and lied to...