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.
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Hang the SOB.
Yowza.............
Evidently this guy didn’t donate $100,000.00.
That’s how Loral’s chairman got around it.
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.
There are hundreds if not thousands of such spies working in high tech commercial and academic labs all over the US. No one cares.
I would expect most 30 year old technology to be available on ebay.
Not surprising when even our department of defense admit that they can’t track who makes our sesitive military equipment.
Will Clinton will pardon him, if elected?
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.
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.
I agree. Quick execution is in order.
Typical
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.
How many chinks in our security protocols are there?
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
I love your rope. Unfortunately, the “Fall of the West” and America, was started when we stopped punishing traitors and spies. The second pillar to fall was the acceptance of illegal immigrants into the US by both Parties of the United States.
These above are seminal events convincing me that the Fall of the US has indeed started. Perhaps the 3rd pillar will be the destruction of the conservative side of the 2 Party system.
“Pa dum pum.”
I’ve got a second show at 9. Don’t forget the tip your servers!
The safety and security of my country or one of these women, a man has to think about that.
The stolen secrets on the outdated shuttle info will be updated with lead paint.
Apparently somebody does, because we arrested this one.
My first reaction to the title is ‘the Space Shuttle still has secrets?’
For Parts, NASA Boldly Goes . . . on eBay
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE2DF1739F931A25756C0A9649C8B63
Reported back in 2002
I’ve got my dad’s owners manual for his push-button automatic transmission 1963 Plymouth Fury 3 on Craig’s List right now, but thats different I guess.
It appears they are just bringing the charges that are easiest to prove in a civilian court against him, and figuring that at his advanced age they will effectively produce a life sentence.
As you suggested, I suspect that they took the death penalty off of the table in return for his cooperation. However, if they don't charge him with those crimes now, they can still do so in the future if he doesn't cooperate fully.
However, a death penalty case would result in a long, expensive, drawn-out trial, and the guy would likely die in prison anyway before he exhausted his appeals, so it would be expensive, time consuming, and pointless.
And they're just putting 2 + 2 together NOW??? Good to know our Justice Dept is on top of things!!
No kidding.
Betcha the Chinese now have the only copy of the original recipe for effective, non-shedding fuel tank foam insulation.
He's been doing this for 30 years, so it isn't inconcievable it was new technology when he stole/sold it.
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