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Raytheon engineer arrested for taking US missile defense secrets to China
Qz ^ | February 1, 2020 | Justin Rohrlich

Posted on 02/01/2020 9:55:58 AM PST by NorseViking

When Wei Sun, a 48-year-old engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems, left for an overseas trip last year, he told the company he planned to bring his company-issued HP EliteBook 840 laptop along.

Sun, a Chinese-born American citizen, had been working at Raytheon, the fourth-largest US defense contractor, for a decade. He held a secret-level security clearance and worked on highly sensitive missile programs used by the US military.

Since Sun’s computer contained large amounts of classified data, Raytheon officials told him that taking it abroad would not only be a violation of company policy, but a serious violation of federal law, as well.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: betrayal; business; china; computers; espionage; military; raytheon; science; weisun
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To: Robert DeLong

Publicly.
And the manager who hired him, and the person responsible for security in his dept./division, should be *fired* and barred for life form working on any classified material ever again.


41 posted on 02/01/2020 10:34:59 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Rummyfan

The people who issued clearance to him should have taken it into account.


42 posted on 02/01/2020 10:35:37 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: dp0622

Threats make them high risk employees so they shouldn’t have security clearances. I’ve worked with quite a few and they just present a higher risk.
Either for money or threats or allegiance they will spy.


43 posted on 02/01/2020 10:36:12 AM PST by Oldexpat (Stand strong VA.)
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To: NorseViking
"Chinese-born American citizen"

No matter how much the liberal idiots howl about it, Chinese-born American citizens should NOT be given access to US secrets. Would China let an American born non-Asian have access to their secrets?

Further, we should absolutely require ANY US defense contractors/companies to sign an agreement that states 'in order to participate in any US military contract work, the contractor/company agrees to pay fines, up to $2 billion to the US treasury if they are found to have employed anyone who is passing secrets to a foreign power, with fines increasing the longer this activity goes undetected by the contractor/company'.

I guarantee they will be a lot more careful vetting who they hire, and observing their employees.

44 posted on 02/01/2020 10:36:17 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: NorseViking

“Sun didn’t listen, according to US prosecutors.”

I would have taken the computer away right then, when Sun said he would take it to China, and put in writing exactly what the company would do, including cooperation with prosecuting authorities, if Sun had copied anything sensitive.


45 posted on 02/01/2020 10:37:12 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Oldexpat

Agreed.

We can’t and shouldn’t take the chance.


46 posted on 02/01/2020 10:38:26 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point do you at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Gen.Blather
How could you possibly trust what he might tell you?

In most cases they would not divulge that kind of information, the names of other agents, to him.

Yes, I doubt he is an agent, and is doing it for the money.

Forget the damn plea agreement, and try him for treason.

47 posted on 02/01/2020 10:38:42 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Captainpaintball

I’m with you on that.


48 posted on 02/01/2020 10:41:37 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks.


49 posted on 02/01/2020 10:42:57 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Brian Griffin

We had to burn ours daily.


50 posted on 02/01/2020 10:45:25 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: NorseViking
It has become regular news to hear about Chinese working in sensitive sectors such as defence and high tech, stealing the technology and taking it to China.

Not sure why this person has been given a plea deal, he should be sent to jail for a very long time for endangering this country and betraying it. There are quite a number of them engaged in this betrayal and caught in the act.

It should be very obvious by now that Chinese coming to the US and getting into defence and sensitive high tech are quite possibly spies for the Chinese government.

51 posted on 02/01/2020 10:48:38 AM PST by Moorings
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To: Rummyfan

There are rules if you do, but it isn’t prohibited if it’s a business trip. Odd that he told the company before his trip. Somebody jumped on it and caught him out.


52 posted on 02/01/2020 10:50:17 AM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: Bob434

Give him the same operation the North Koreans gave Otto and send him home.


53 posted on 02/01/2020 10:53:22 AM PST by heshtesh
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To: Robert DeLong

Hang the little bastard.


54 posted on 02/01/2020 10:57:58 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NorseViking

Why is the Federal Government allowing these weapons manufacturers to hire alians to work in these sensitive projects?

If they are not native born they should not be allowed in any of the Defense Industries.We are cutting our own throats when we allow this to happen.

It’s just stupid.Thanks for nothing Raytheon.


55 posted on 02/01/2020 11:09:36 AM PST by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

I don’t understand if Raytheon knew he was working on military stuff; he had top-secret clearance; and the computer belonged to Raytheon - why was he allowed to take it out of the country? It wasn’t even his.


56 posted on 02/01/2020 11:10:50 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
" Why they would help out a bankrupt political system and not cast their lot with the US is beyond me."

Because they don't want to get a bill from the PRC for the bullets that killed their parents, and the notification that their brothers and sisters were sectioned as organ donors?

57 posted on 02/01/2020 11:11:53 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: NorseViking

Give him a fair trial.

Then hang him by the neck until he’s dead.

Ship the corpse back to China freight collect.

Cash only.

L


58 posted on 02/01/2020 11:12:44 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: NorseViking

How dumb are these employers? Unreal!


59 posted on 02/01/2020 11:13:09 AM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Exactly - right then! He announced his intentions and queried whether it was ok. NO - and you take it from him. Where’s his boss in all of this?


60 posted on 02/01/2020 11:14:55 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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