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PRC Espionage

Former Boeing Engineer Sentenced to Nearly 16 Years in Prison for Stealing Aerospace Secrets for China

9 February 2010

USAO/Central District of California, 8 Feb 10: SANTA ANA, California – An aerospace engineer was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison for his conviction on charges of economic espionage and acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China for more than three decades while employed by Rockwell and Boeing, from which [...]

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Convicted Chinese Spy to Get Espionage Sentence

8 February 2010

AP, 8 Feb 10: An elderly Chinese-born engineer convicted of economic espionage for hoarding sensitive documents that included space shuttle details faces sentencing Monday, and prosecutors are seeking a 20-year term. A judge found Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 74, guilty in July of six federal counts of economic espionage and other charges for keeping 300,000 pages [...]

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Cyberespionage threat ‘larger than anybody has ever conveyed’

4 February 2010

Wired, 3 Feb 10: . . . . Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at the nature of the attacks, and attackers, that struck Google and others. The report never mentions Google by name, or any other companies, but focuses on information gathered from hundreds of forensic investigations [...]

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China removed as top priority for spies

20 January 2010

Washington Times/Bill Gertz, 20 Jan 10: The White House National Security Council recently directed U.S. spy agencies to lower the priority placed on intelligence collection for China, amid opposition to the policy change from senior intelligence leaders who feared it would hamper efforts to obtain secrets about Beijing’s military and its cyber-attacks.
The downgrading of [...]

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