Posted on 02/11/2005 10:40:20 PM PST by maui_hawaii
Szady highlights threat of Chinese espionage
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI's leader in spy catching used a rare public appearance Thursday to ask American business to help stop the theft of U.S. business and technology secrets.
FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence David Szady, cited Russia, Iran, Cuba and North Korea among countries he said engage in espionage against the United States, but he focused heavily on activities by Chinese.
"There are 150,000 students from China. Some of those are sent here to work their way up into the corporations," Szady said. There are about 300,000 Chinese visitors annually, and 15,000 Chinese delegations touring the United States every year, 3,500 of them in the New York area alone, he said.
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at least someone is finally talking about the Chinese.
God, they must know literally everything. What a mess.
Wow I'm surprised a government official would be this overt. Normally there is a push for political correctness. This is good (and amazing). I actually checked to see if this story was a hoax, but it seems legit.
After so many embarrassments you would think they would have gotten it before now.
Prosecution is making serious appeals. I don't if the appeal has been decided yet.
He estimated that about 3,000 false-front Chinese companies operate in the United States, and urged private-sector employers to "partner up" with FBI agents to help protect national security.
"The economic viability of the United States we now look at as a counterintelligence problem," he said.
"We now see almost all of the adversaries, the Chinese being a classic example, of using students, delegations, researchers, visitors ... and false-front companies," Szady said.
Another senior FBI official, who spoke anonymously, was more blunt.
"The Chinese are stealing us blind," he said. "The 10-year technological advantage we had is vanishing."
The FBI has been successful, he said, in making some arrests.
"We took down some cases in Milwaukee, Trenton, New Jersey, and Palo Alto. These were false-front companies that were stealing technologies for the Chinese. Every person arrested was a student. They studied here, got their PhD here, and went to work for places like Lockheed, Raytheon, and Northrop."
If true, 3,000 false front companies isn't just wholesale spying, it's crossing the boundary into something far worse. This can make an interlocking infrastructure that can be used for a variety of purposes.
ping!
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I wonder why I didn't read about this in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Or at least as legit as CNN can be :-)
"Interesting times" ping
bump for later
Yes, but Capitalism leads to Freedom, and as long as the Chinese are FREE, thay can't possibly pose a threat to us.
Or so goes the argument, as I understand it.
I.E. hurriedly closing the barn door after the horse has run off... aka; Barney Fife version of due diligence..
Especially what they learned during the ClinToon "Open-door Policy" years.
Two weeks ago we had an all-hands broadcast e-mail from our FSO indicating just this "be on the lookout for....." stuff.
We are taking this threat very seriously
Thanks for the PING TTS.
And the PING goes on to my FRiends****
We need to get back to basics here in America and on FR and keep an eye on the Commies.
Just because the Soviet Union is gone, it doesn't mean Communism is dead. They were good trainers and experts at mimicry, and all they want is the destruction of American Democracy.
Check out this thread:
Current Communist Goals (1958)
Restoring America PAC ^ | 1958/1963 | Cleon Skousen
Posted on 11/06/2004 2:01:50 PM EST by Remember_Salamis
at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1272893/posts
It is amazing how many of the goals they achieved, and if you replace communist with Islamic in some of the "goals" you will see how it applies to today.
The doors are still open. Apparently they aren't checking people very thoroughly before letting them into this country, under one of the various visa scams.
and some say 'communism' is anti-capitalism.
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