Glenn Duffie Shriver (born November 23, 1981) is an American convicted of conspiracy to spy for China.
Shriver’s experience was dramatized in the short film Game of Pawns, produced by the Counter-Intelligence Unit of the FBI and released online in April 2014. One of the film’s goals was to warn students of dangers in China. It featured the actor Joshua Murray as Shriver.
Adam Taylor of The Washington Post described it as “strikingly cheesy, obviously low-budget”. Emily Rauhala of TIME described it as “a bit of a stinker” that “comes off as cross between a public service announcement and a parody.” Rauhala concluded that since the film had a “stereotypical view of China” it meant that “the people behind it, like Shriver, seem well-intentioned but unforgivably naive.”
Within the film the Washington, D.C. Chinatown is used as a stand-in for Shanghai.
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