China Targets Another Energy Lab

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A recent Pentagon report indicates that the Chinese assault on the U.S. Energy Department's national laboratories is continuing. The victim this time appears to be the Ames Laboratory, located on the campus of Iowa State University. Ames is one of the Energy Department's "science" labs. It focuses primarily on energy-related research in the materials, chemical, and biological sciences. But it also conducts research on behalf of national security clients.

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This time around, the Chinese have acquired a so-called "smart material" known as Terfenol-D. Terfenol-D was originally developed by the Ames Lab in the 1970s under contract to the U.S. Navy. The Pentagon report said that the material is used in "militarily critical naval and aerospace applications."

Bill Gertz, writing in the Washington Times, reported that the Navy uses the material in advanced sonar systems for tracking enemy submarines. U.S. officials told him that the Chinese could use the material to develop multiple-warhead ballistic missiles as part of their overall strategic nuclear force modernization. Gertz said that sales of the material are strictly controlled and require an export license.

The FBI has alleged that two Chinese students stole information about the material in a "computer hacking incident." One of the students attended Iowa State and was said to have worked closely with the Ames Lab. One of the two students admitted supplying the Chinese military with the Terfenol-D data. Over the years, the U.S. Navy has spent millions of dollars in research to create the smart material.

In 2003, the Congress appropriated over $5 million for continued research on the material.

The FBI cites this as a good example of how the Chinese are acquiring dual-use military technologies in the United States. In an interview with the Associated Press, a senior FBI official charged that many of the thousands of Chinese visitors, students, and businessmen come to the United States each year with tasking from Beijing to collect intelligence information.

The Pentagon report labeled academic exchanges as one of the prime methods the Chinese use to collect sensitive technologies, like Terfenol-D. The report also said the authoritative Chinese journals have recommended an increase in the use of overseas ethnic Chinese scientists to acquire foreign technologies.

In the same Associated Press interview, the FBI official labeled China "the greatest espionage threat to the U.S. over the next ten to fifteen years." Echoing the now largely forgotten Cox Report, he said the Chinese have set up more than three thousand "front" companies in the U.S. to run espionage operations.

Overall, the FBI believes that there are now more foreign spies operating in the U.S. than ever before. To counter this threat, the FBI is trying to rebuild its counter-espionage capabilities. These were largely dismantled in the 1990s. The FBI sections devoted to Chinese espionage were hit especially hard.

The Bureau is now trying to reconstitute that capability, but such a feat cannot be accomplished overnight.

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Notra Trulock is the Associate Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at:
aimeditor@yahoo.com

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[tet68]

, the FBI is trying to rebuild its counter-espionage capabilities. These were largely dismantled in the 1990s. The FBI sections devoted to Chinese espionage were hit especially hard.

Now why did Clinton do that ???

We know the answer.

[Dr Warmoose]

Sounds like some university facilitators need to suffer a lawsuit, or a trial of treason.

In the meantime, lets bill China for the "research".

[PokeyJoe]

Heck, Let's just send China Bill. (chuckle)

[jungleboy]

Why is the US letting chinese kids work in and around these top-secret facilities?

[Patriotways]

Free Trade LOL FBI: China has 3000 espionage “front” companies in U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966227/posts?q=1&&page=51

[Captainpaintball]

Could some idiot in the "Ad-min-iss-tray-shun" put Trulock in charge of overhauling the entire nuclear lab system? He still seems interested in the subject, even after what happened to him personally...Who better?

[Patriotways]

called Socialists=one world government United Nations,wto,nafta world bank, SHARE verything we the U.S have with the world

[Patriotways]

Truman and the United Nations


http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/un/large/

[Captainpaintball]

Why is the US letting chinese kids work in and around these top-secret facilities

1. I know you and others are not going to want to hear it, but there are not many "Amurikin kidz" qualified to work in these labs.

2. The answer to everything: diverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsity.

3. I guarantee there some sick f!@ks in our government that want it that way.

[Paleo Conservative]

As far as I am concerned enemy spies operating on American soil should be tried by tribunals.

[Patriotways]

The US Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Los Alamos (LANL), and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) established an unofficial program of scientific interactions with China's nuclear weapon laboratories in support of US arms control and nonproliferation policy. http://www.nti.org/db/china/laborg.htm

[jungleboy]

Cap'n, I couldn't agree more re: Notra. HOWEVER, I doubt he wants to work for the gubbermint anymore:(

[Patriotways]

exchange programs U.S. investigators arriving at Los Alamos after the evidence of espionage surfaced four years ago found Chinese scientists and postdoctoral students all around the sprawling facility in New Mexico, studying under official exchange programs that are part of the Clinton administration's policy of engagement with Beijing. And some CIA analysts concluded that Chinese weapons scientists' access to open sources and exchanges with their Russian counterparts may have done more to help Beijing's weapons development than the alleged illegal actions in the late 1980s by a Taiwanese-born Los Alamos researcher. http://www.taiwandc.org/wp-9908.htm exchange programs

[Patriotways]

exchange programs =called Socialists=one world government United Nations,wto,nafta world bank, SHARE verything we the U.S have with the world

[jungleboy]

Thanks for the info...not suprised that these programs were set up in '94. The chicoms and the clintonistas were merging BIG TIME in '94.... I witnessed Rockwell International "selling" dual-use technologies to KNOWN front companies in '94/'95... I got thrown out of a "business dinner" for getting drunk and voicing my outrage... Corp America KNOWINGLY selling out our country's National security:(

[Patriotways]

International Exchange and Harmonization

MLIT exchanges materials and information, and makes adjustments among systems of each country for increasing benefits of the entire world, through international organizations such as the United Nations, WTO (World Trade Organization) , APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation), and OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).http://www.mlit.go.jp/sogoseisaku/inter/tech/tech1-3e.htm

[Patriotways]

Bush, Jiang Vow to Cooperate in War (Look For More Military Exchange Programs For China)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/552780/posts

[Tailgunner Joe]

bump

[SevenDaysInMay]

Fascist China accumulates detail upon detail, aggregating and filtering information from any and all sources. Millions may be processing our open books.

After the Clintons' treasons, we're still trying to figure out how the barn door can't be closed.

If the treasons were effectively enforced, by a 9 gram weight gain if nothing else, some of the leaks would be closed, for a while.

China will soon have more college graduates than the USA has people, including our criminal aliens. I suspect that China will have more English speakers than the USA because metasticizing Aztlan will not require Engllish.

The last great invasion from "Mexico", the Bronze people ate the Hopi and Navajo ancesters. Aztlan will be good eatin'.

Neo-Meso-America will not pose a threat to China.