China's Big Export - When it comes to spying, Beijing likes to flood the zone

Ning Wen and his wife were arrested last fall at their home office in Manitowoc, Wis., for allegedly sending their native China $500,000 worth of computer parts that could enhance missile systems. As these naturalized citizens await trial, similar episodes in Mount Pleasant, N.J., and Palo Alto, Calif., point only to the tip of the iceberg, according to FBI officials keeping tabs on more than 3,000 companies in the U.S. suspected of collecting information for China. A hotbed of activity is Silicon Valley, where the number of Chinese espionage cases handled by the bureau increases 20% to 30% annually. Says a senior FBI official: "China is trying to develop a military that can compete with the U.S., and they are willing to steal to get [it]." But instead of assigning one well-trained agent to pursue a target, "the Chinese are very good at putting a lot of people on just a little piece and getting a massive amount of stuff home," says a U.S. intelligence official. The number of Chinese snoops is staggering, if only because average civilians are enlisted in the effort. FBI officials say state security agents in China debrief many visitors to the U.S. before and after their trips, asking what they saw and sometimes telling them what to get. .................

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The FBI, severely criticized for its investigation of physicist Wen Ho Lee in the mid-'90s, has added hundreds more counterintelligence agents and put at least one in every Energy Department research facility. The bureau also started cooperation initiatives with corporations, but still sees universities as a soft spot, with some 150,000 Chinese currently studying in the U.S. The FBI'S three most recent counterintelligence arrests were of suspects who had held student visas at some point. To help sort the few who go to America to spy from the thousands who go there for a better life, the FBI relies heavily on Chinese informants.
Says a high-ranking Silicon Valley agent: "We have almost more assets than we can deal with."

Why didn't the employees of Time mention the Cox Report? This is nothing new. It's SOP.

Why didn't these clowns mention that Wen Ho Lee never lived up to his plea agreement?

To wit, "After pleading guilty to the charge of mishandling classified information, he was sentenced to the time he had already served. Lee ultimately acknowledged copying classified nuclear data onto portable computer tapes and removing them from Los Alamos. Despite an intensive debriefing by the FBI under the terms of his plea agreement, the tapes have never been found."

8/27/01 Washington Post: "Report Details More FBI Blunders in Wen Ho Lee Probe"

"Lee agreed to tell the government why he put the data on computer tapes and what exactly became of several of them that now are missing. In exchange, he received a sentence of nine months, the time he already served awaiting trial."

It seems that his hyphenated supporters screaming "Racists!" overlook that pesky little detail, including perhaps Lee himself.

Folks, many of us remember the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s where the accused were victims and the investigators were evil. It took almost fifty years to learn it but the facts were just the opposite. Here we are again. Watch for more "Stop the racial profiling" demands from the hyphenated groups.

In a 2/6/02 Associated Press: "Los Alamos Director Defends Firing Lee, Hopes To Restore Image" the Director, John C. Browne, said that Lee downloaded 400,000 pages --

"enough to make a pile that would be 13 stories tall. 'That's a lot of classified information,' he said."

The hyphenated crowd would have us believe that it all went on a couple of floppies that were somehow misplaced and cannot be found -- or, if pressed, "Everybody did it. What's the big deal? It's racism I tell ya!"

You remember the Cox Report, right? The Clinton pukes refused to let Congress release the entire report and, I believe, after months of delay the remaining portion was released on a Friday afternoon before Easter and promptly forgotten except for criticism of it from the MSM.

You see, one of the MSM employee clowns found an "error" in the printed version and the whole thing was rejected by the anointed ones.

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