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Boeing engineer charged with stealing Space Shuttle secrets for China
Chicago Tribune ^ | February 11, 2008 | James P. Miller

Posted on 02/11/2008 12:11:54 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

The Justice Department said Monday that it has arrested a former Boeing Co. engineer on charges that he stole Boeing trade secrets related to several aerospace programs -- including the Space Shuttle -- on behalf of the Peoples Republic of China.

The department said the arrest of 72-year-old Dongfan "Greg" Chung, of Orange, Calif. follows his indictment on eight counts of economic espionage and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: avaiation; aviation; ba; boeing; china; chinathreat; espionage; spaceshuttle
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Egads!
1 posted on 02/11/2008 12:12:02 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Hang the SOB.


2 posted on 02/11/2008 12:13:08 PM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Gadzooks !
3 posted on 02/11/2008 12:13:36 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Yowza.............


4 posted on 02/11/2008 12:14:30 PM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (God Bless George W. Bush)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Evidently this guy didn’t donate $100,000.00.

That’s how Loral’s chairman got around it.


5 posted on 02/11/2008 12:14:45 PM PST by DoughtyOne (That's right McStain, you'll get my vote when you peel it from my cold dead fingers.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

China is very aggressive in stealing our technology. From sub secrets to penetrating the NSA to stealing B-2 Bomber stealth secrets, they have been very busy.

I bet they are tired of it too. By backing Hillary they want to simply show up at the Oval Office with a check for the library and have the info Fed-Exed to them.


6 posted on 02/11/2008 12:16:17 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

There are hundreds if not thousands of such spies working in high tech commercial and academic labs all over the US. No one cares.


7 posted on 02/11/2008 12:17:42 PM PST by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Space Shuttle secrets

I would expect most 30 year old technology to be available on ebay.

8 posted on 02/11/2008 12:20:47 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Not surprising when even our department of defense admit that they can’t track who makes our sesitive military equipment.


9 posted on 02/11/2008 12:20:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Will Clinton will pardon him, if elected?


10 posted on 02/11/2008 12:22:47 PM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: pissant

The prison time and fines mentioned in the article are too soft. Giving defense secrets to a foreign power should be punished by hanging/death. Our government often trades a lenient sentence for information from the spy as to what was leaked. I say, torture the spy to get the info and then execute the spy. That’s what China does and the Soviets did and they had fewer leakers than we have had.


11 posted on 02/11/2008 12:23:58 PM PST by RicocheT
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To: thackney
I read once where some computer parts and system boards for the shuttle had to be bought off Ebay since the original maker went under or was bought out decades ago.

Slightly OT here. As a kid, I remember reading in some magazine or maybe Weekly Reader about how the internals of some computer at the IRS were so old, they crumbled into dust when handled. Being an young and naive type, I was concerned. Now, that would be great news. Especially if it were a daily thing.

12 posted on 02/11/2008 12:26:12 PM PST by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair!)
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To: RicocheT

I agree. Quick execution is in order.


13 posted on 02/11/2008 12:26:23 PM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

14 posted on 02/11/2008 12:26:42 PM PST by poindexter
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To: Paul Ross

Typical


15 posted on 02/11/2008 12:27:05 PM PST by am452 (Globalist: Converting the American people to the Democrat party since 1992)
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To: IrishCatholic

Pardon me, they, China, aren’t just “aggressively stealing”, they have been at it for dozens of years, and the Clintons got in the White House and HANDED it over.


16 posted on 02/11/2008 12:28:29 PM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

How many chinks in our security protocols are there?


17 posted on 02/11/2008 12:29:11 PM PST by toddlintown (Building More Highways For Children---Huckleberry Talking Point)
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To: poindexter

18 posted on 02/11/2008 12:29:43 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

If anyone is interested, the astronauts are spacewalking now and getting ready to hang the Columbus module on the station.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html


19 posted on 02/11/2008 12:32:22 PM PST by cabojoe
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To: Hacklehead
There are hundreds if not thousands of such spies working in high tech commercial and academic labs all over the US. No one cares.

Yes they do. It counts towards diversity.
20 posted on 02/11/2008 12:33:21 PM PST by Sig Sauer P220
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