Defense Contractor Held In Spy Case

The Washington Times ^ | November 30, 2005 | Bill Gertz

[Paul Ross]

A defense contractor charged with failing to register as a Chinese agent admitted passing data on U.S. Navy arms technology to China for 22 years, including information on next-generation destroyers, an aircraft carrier catapult and the Aegis weapons system, according to new court papers in the case.

[Paul Ross]

CODE NAME: The "Red Flower of North America."

Twenty-Two YEARS of high technology compromises. This was not a n isolated or infrequent problem...it proves the scope and scale of the monstrous Chinese espionage octopus devouring all the U.S. military tech secret. What do you want to bet, just as I predicted, that the intel on the Sinking of the Super carrier, the CV-66, America, wound up in their possesion...and now the Chi-Comms know PRECISELY how to hit our Carriers.

[Rodney King]

The guy should be executed.

[Paul Ross]

This sums some of the compromises he ADMITS to...

According to the papers, Chi Mak admitted passing to China information on:

•Direct current-to-direct current (DDC) converters for submarines.

•A 5,000-amp direct current hybrid circuit breaker for submarines.

•Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), a new system to launch aircraft from carriers using magnets instead of steam.

•The power distribution system for the Aegis weapons system and its Spy-1 radar, used on the Navy's most advanced guided missile destroyers and cruisers.

•A study that reveals the methods used by U.S. warship personnel to continue operating after being attacked. Officials said the paper is a blueprint for attacking and disabling warships.

•Modifications and Additions to Reactor Facility (MARF), a nuclear reactor located at the Navy's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory that's used for testing prototype nuclear reactors. Investigators found a detailed, hand-drawn map of that facility in Chi Mak's house.

COMMENT: Highly critical information. And the technology represents our "edge" the next-generation systems. What ELSE aren't they even aware of that "Red Flower in North America" has successfully ferreted out?

[Paul Ross]

Pinging.

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: Direct current-to-direct current (DDC) converters for submarines.

Note the fact that the PRC has great capability to product power devices and circuits and could take these schematics to production tomorrow. Look at Guangdong alone - there must be 100 power supply factories there.

RE: A 5,000-amp direct current hybrid circuit breaker for submarines.

Ditto.

RE: Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), a new system to launch aircraft from carriers using magnets instead of steam.

Note that since the 1980s, the PRC has essentially been the world's place for rare earth processing and magnetic component production. All the stuff made previously in the US and Mexico is now made in the PRC. Look at the mag levs going up in the PRC. Again, they can take this IP to the bank now.

RE: The power distribution system for the Aegis weapons system and its Spy-1 radar, used on the Navy's most advanced guided missile destroyers and cruisers.

Cable assemblies are mostly made in the PRC today. Another perfect fit for this IP.

[Alia]

From article: U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who ordered Chi Mak to be held without bond, dismissed a defense lawyer's claim that the charges were exaggerated. "You're talking about billions of dollars of technology that puts our country at serious risk," he said.

Bang ON Big Time, Judge!!

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

Imagine that, the PRC has spy's.

Guess they didn't want to wait for President Hillary Clinton to exchange the information for 2012 campaign cash.

[TexasCajun]

Glad you posted this, I saw it earlier.

Infreakingcredible!!!

Hiring Chinese military as subcontractors! ..for 20+ years.

[Paul Ross]

Infreakingcredible!!! Hiring Chinese military as subcontractors! ..for 20+ years.

That isn't the end of the insanity. Letting them have access to the information on Navy damage control...perhaps even the latest information on how to sink the carriers...

Retired carrier USS America sunk off Atlantic coast
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 21, 2005
Last updated: 11:34 PM

NEWPORT NEWS — The retired aircraft carrier America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.

The 84,000-ton, 1,048-foot warship that served the Navy for 32 years rests about 60 miles off the coast and more than 6,000 feet down, according to Pat Dolan, a spokeswoman for Naval Sea Systems Command.

She did not give a location, but the Navy previously said the explosions would take place off North Carolina.

Dolan said the America went down May 14, finally flooded after the series of explosions over 25 days. No announcement was made at the time.

Dolan did not immediately return a call Friday from The Associated Press.

No warship this size or larger had ever been sunk, and plans to sink the America caused controversy.

“Not a day goes by that I don’t think about it,” said Lee McNulty, president of the USS America Foundation, which wanted to turn the ship into a museum. “Of all the carriers, that one should have been saved, just for the name America.”

The America launched warplanes during the Vietnam War, the 1986 conflict with Libya, the first Gulf War, and over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the mid-1990s.

The Navy said in March that the explosive tests would provide valuable data on survivability for the next generation of aircraft carriers, which are now in development.

Since its decommissioning in 1996, the America had been moored with other inactive warships at a Navy yard in Philadelphia.

COMMENT: Prophetic. Sinking the CV-66 America, a Super Carrier, showing their spies the vulnerable spots, may yet result in China successfully sinking the rest of our carriers...and America itself.

[azhenfud]

He should be tried by firing squad.

[Paul Ross]

Guess they didn't want to wait for President Hillary Clinton to exchange the information for 2012 campaign cash.

Why bribe to steal when you can get your enemy to HIRE your agents (saving your spy service a real wad) to develop the secret military technology...which they cheerfully hand off to the PLA-Industry adjunct...saving them hundreds of billion in R&D...and giving them a leg up on how to tackle us in a head-on clash...a bead on the Achilles heels of the technologies...

[Paul Ross]

The guy should be executed.

Execution would be too good for these guys...

Cruel and unusual punishment seems warranted in this case. But the Constitution forbids it...

Of course, in China, which they aided, a similar security breach would meet with EXACTLY that.

We may never even know how bad the security losses have been...till we are in a war that isn't supposed to happen because we are so confidently assured of our technical and logistical edge...

If they have the goods on our Next Generation systems...just what gives us any confidence that what is deployed now is not compromised...

[Paul Ross]

Should have posted some pictures of the great ship...

America, sailing into the sunset...

[TexasCajun]

Very impressive! ...one lean mean fight'n machine.

[Paul Ross]

Yes. The technical and broader industrial base capability of China to exploit these thefts is very real...and underappreciated by many U.S. analysts.

I'm concerned that a lot of people are not catching wise to the scope of the burgeoning Chinese military-industrial threat...this article from over four years ago pointed out...

How China Plans to Dominate the Shipbuilding Industry ...and it's military implications:

China is making a concerted effort to establish itself as a major maritime power. It is now the world's third largest shipbuilder in terms of gross tonnage, surpassed only by Japan and South Korea. The high volume of these three Asian countries comes from commercial, not naval (military), construction. Commercial shipbuilding has, however, always been considered a strategic industry, and not only because its infrastructure can also support warship construction. England at the dawn of the industrial revolution, and Japan as it strove to catch up with the West in the 19th century, both used shipbuilding as a catalyst for wider economic development.

[elfman2]

"and now the Chi-Comms know PRECISELY how to hit our Carriers."

You mean they know PRECISELY how to destroy themselves?

[Paul Ross]

You mean they know PRECISELY how to destroy themselves?

If Ronald Reagan was still president, that would be true.

And he wouldn't wait for the hammer to fall.

The mere fact that all of the new advances for this ship also

CVX. Next generation carrier.

were stolen, would force extreme changes in national defense posture and expenditures:There is not any indication that GWB has ANY gonads to deal with China whatsoever...remember the EP-3 coming home in boxes... where was the consequences to these thugs? Notice he even covers for their continuing currency-pegging, when there is absolutely no conceivable advantage to the Republicans...or the country... to do so. NONE.

President Bush can't even get a simple PLEA for religious liberty out to the Chinese people past their media filters and censorship. (Notice Bush fails to DEMAND ON BEHALF OF THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE as Reagan did)

We need to hear from the people on the ground in China if the President's "religious" talk had any impact whatsoever.

If he isn't clear on the fundamentals of liberty, then he won't be clear on national defense.

[elfman2]

One of my favorite lines from Operation Iraqi Freedom (undertaken by GWB and probably wouldn’t have been necessary if Reagan had given our Marine gate guards bullets for their rifles or not retreated after about 225 of them were killed.) came from an Army commander shortly after the fall of Baghdad. In response to a reporters insinuation that our technology defeated the Iraqi Army he said something to the effect of, “They had some good weapons but they were poorly deployed and they didn’t know how to used them. If they had our equipment and we had theirs, we’d have still beat them.”

China has ZERO war fighting experience, and are several times more vulnerable economically than us. Expecting them to successfully invade and hold Taiwan because of technology is like expecting members of your gym to win the Superbowl if given the opposition playbook and new uniforms.

[staytrue]

This sums some of the compromises he ADMITS to

Maybe yes. But according to the article, this is what court papers filed by the prosecutor says he admits to. Further, the original story that you poste said prosecuters indicted him on drug smuggling. Where is the evidence for that ?

[Paul Ross]

Drug smuggling...where, in the fine print? Give us a break. The "B" charges were unregistered foreign agents. BTW: Note that TWO federal judges reversed the Xlintonites here...this is NATIONAL SECURITY of the highest order. And what do you lamely try to defecate here?

You are trying to kick sand in our eyes. Won't work.

Where are you from? I am beginning to have doubts about you. Your response is not one of respectful admission of your egregious intell mistakes, but continued bull-headed Han sino-intransigence.