Jensen Huang Kept His Affair Quiet. How Much Power Does a Secret Like That Hand Someone?

Jensen Huang kept his affair quiet until he confessed it in a memo to Nvidia employees, and reports say the woman was Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded was a Chinese intelligence asset. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and I go beyond what’s been established in the Nvidia case to ask how much power a secret like that hands someone.

Robin is the former chief of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Security experts say spy schemes that use romance can end in coercion or blackmail. Nvidia’s board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised, and China denies the spying claims.

I ask Robin what changes once a shared secret becomes a threat, what the fear of losing your family can make you agree to, and what keeps the demands from growing after the first time someone gives in. We also talk about whether the person doing the recruiting can be under the same kind of pressure.

I end by asking whether Huang going public would strip the power from anyone who might have been holding his secret.

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