Posted on 02/08/2010 7:37:05 PM PST by Steelfish
Former Engineer Sentenced To 15 years For Stealing Aerospace Secrets For China
February 8 A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space shuttle information and other documents for China.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney in Santa Ana imposed a 188-month prison term on Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 73, a naturalized U.S. citizen who resides in Orange. At Monday’s sentencing, Carney declared that he could not “put a price tag” on national security and sought to send a signal to China to “stop sending your spies here,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Chung, who worked at Boeing’s Huntington Beach plant, denied being a spy and said he was gathering documents for a book, not for espionage. His attorneys argued that much of the material was already available on the public record. At his sentencing, Chung professed his love for the United States, even as prosecutors depicted him as a spy who would compromise U.S. national security.
“Giving China advanced rocket technology is not in the United States’ national interest,” said Asst. U.S. Atty. Greg Staples. “There is a voracious appetite for U.S. technology in China.”
Whether loyalty to his homeland or financial gain was Chung’s motive remained unclear. The case is one of a number of prosecutions that have shed light on alleged Chinese efforts to gain access to U.S. technology and research through espionage.
Chung was the first suspect tried with attempting to help a foreign nation under the terms of the 1996 Economic Espionage Act, passed to help prevent pilfering of sensitive economic information. When Chung was convicted last year, Carney said the case revealed Chung’s “secret life” as a........
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And then we’ll kick his old arse back to China.
At source, article indicates he spied for China for THIRTY YEARS.
In China, they would have tied a placard to him, forced him into the kneel, and then shot him in the base of the skull from behind with an AK.
Then his family would have been charged for the bullet.
OR WORSE.
Yeah, a book in Chinese.
STOP China? This won't even SLOW them. There are millions of Dongfan's where this came from.
Anyone employeeing a Chinese national as an engineer in this country is a damnfool.
Even Ford learned this way back in the ‘80s, when a former “engineer” stole Ford glass’ float glass process secrets for making auto windshield glass.
Yet, companies use Russian and Chinese citizens all the time in non-classifed contracts where they no doubt have access to enough sensitive information to hurt US companies.
What is wrong with corporate America? Why do they hire thes foreigners when they know that they come from unfriendly countries. Our tech and space program is full of Chinese, Russian, Pakastani, Saudi and other foreigners who are pumping our technology overseas at an alarming rate. So much for diversity.
We need to execute a few of these people so as to concentrate the minds of the others; 15 years is pittance. China can’t develop the technology without stealing it from us, and one day they will attack us with it. Also, all of his family in this country should all be returned to China.
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pfft..
I’m surprised that he was even arrested under THIS administration.
How stupid can we be?
Gezuz...
He’ll have a lot of time to think about what he did now.
“Diversity is our strength!” - Some unknown liberal pothead.
What's really scary is people need to be told this.
Ya go down to LAX, and they have tens of thousands of these people land here everyday....Our government can't even control our borders, or it's budget, let alone thousands of potential spies.
“Then his family would have been charged for the bullet.
OR WORSE.”
What’s worse-they’d have to buy bullets for the whole firing squad?;)
Start publically hanging or shotting these SOBs and it might cause China to think twice, if not those who spy for them....
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