Posted on 03/30/2007 8:13:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SANTA ANA - A federal agent testified Friday that investigators found a computer disk with sensitive details on the Navy's next generation of destroyers when they searched the home of a Chinese-American engineer accused of illegally sending technology information to China.
FBI Special Agent James Gaylord said the CD was found at the home of Chi Mak after his arrest and it contained materials related to the so-called DDX, highly advanced guided-missile warships that are under development.
The documents were sent by the Navy to companies during contract bidding, including the company Mak worked for, Power Paragon Inc. The company responded to the request but ultimately did not get a contract.
The government says a copy of the material was also found on a computer belonging to Mak's brother, Tai.
Chi Mak, a Chinese-born naturalized U.S. citizen, is on trial in federal court on charges conspiracy to export defense material to China, failure to register as a foreign agent, attempted and actual export of defense articles, and making false statements. His brother, their wives and a nephew also were indicted and face trial later.
The government this week began presenting its case against Chi Mak, who at the time of his arrest in 2005 was working on a project called Quiet Electric Drive, a system to decrease the signatures emitted by Navy submarines and surface warships.
Prosecutors on Friday also put into evidence a photo found at Chi Mak's home that showed him, his wife and an official of the China National Nuclear Corporation, an entity Gaylord described as essential in developing China's nuclear submarines.
The government also submitted into evidence details about a small calendar book belonging to Chi Mak that contains information about Navy ships that passed through Hong Kong in the early 1970s when he lived there.
Gaylord noted that the book contains hull numbers and names of commanding officers associated with the ships.
Defense attorney Ronald Kaye sought to blunt the importance of the book during questioning of Erin Lee Abernathy, an intelligence specialist with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service who examined the book.
Kaye noted that Hong Kong newspapers at that time regularly published arrival and departure times of ships and that the calendar book included escort and hospital ships among other vessels not specifically designed for battle.
Send this POS directly to the gallows.
Execute him.
I agree. Betrayal of the safety and security of the citizens of the US deserves nothing less.
F.O.B.?
It would have been OK if he registered?
If he's found guilty it is time for a swift execution. Both him, his borther, and their wives if they were involved.
For endangering our lives, they lose theirs.
That is a slightly different configuration from the one that I first saw. Still, an impressive concept.
I read in another article that he had immigrated to the US in the 1980s. Could be a sleeper agent.
He seems to have stolen the Navy's Statement-Of-Work for DDX. I don't think China was planning to bid.
Incriminating.
SHoot this worthless chicom POS
That could be true, but as we all know, it doesn't take much to be an F.O.B. Eighties Schmieties!
What I find interesting is the calendar in which he charted US naval activity in Hong Kong during the 1970s.
OT. Any idea why # of views per thread isn't showing?
Profiling, that's what you are suggesting. Tsk, tsk, shame on you ............. and me too.
After a fair trial, then followed by execution by firing squad, send a bill for the ammo used to kill him, to the Chinese Government.
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