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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:11 am    Post subject: Four Arrests Linked To Chinese Spy Ring Reply with quote

This is devastating!

The Washington Times
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Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published November 5, 2005
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Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships.

U.S. intelligence and security officials said the case remains under investigation but that it could prove to be among the most damaging spy cases since the 1985 one of John A. Walker Jr., who passed Navy communication codes to Moscow for 22 years.

The Los Angeles spy ring has operated since 1990 and has funneled technology and military secrets to China in the form of documents and computer disks, officials close to the case said.

The ring was led by Chi Mak and his wife, Rebecca Laiwah Chiu, along with Mr. Chi's brother, Tai Wang Mak, and his wife, Fuk Heung Li, officials said.

Key compromises uncovered so far include sensitive data on Aegis battle management systems that are the core of U.S. Navy destroyers and cruisers.

China covertly obtained the Aegis technology and earlier this year deployed its first Aegis warship, code-named Magic Shield, intelligence officials have said.

The Chinese also obtained sensitive data on U.S. submarines, including classified details related to the new Virginia-class attack submarines.

Officials said based on a preliminary assessment, China now will be able to track U.S. submarines, a compromise that potentially could be devastating if the United States enters a conflict with China in defending Taiwan.


Mr. Chi, an electrical engineer, also had access to details on U.S. aircraft carriers and once was aboard the USS Stennis. A Pentagon report made public earlier this year said China's military is building up capabilities to attack U.S. aircraft carriers.

China also is thought to have obtained information from the spy ring that will assist Chinese military development of electromagnetic pulse weapons -- weapons that simulate the electronic shock caused by a nuclear blast -- that disrupt electronics.

It also is thought to have obtained unmanned aerial vehicle technology from the spy ring.

All four persons were arrested yesterday and charged with theft of government property. Law-enforcement officials said that the charges are expected to be upgraded to espionage or espionage-related once the nature of the information involved is fully investigated.

Investigators seized hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and computer data from Mr. Chi's home in Downey, Calif., after the arrest.

Mr. Chi and his wife were born in China and are naturalized American citizens. Mr. Tai and his wife are resident aliens who came to the United States from China in May 2001.

The arrests were made after electronic surveillance revealed Mr. Tai and his wife planned to travel to Guangzhou, China, to pass to Chinese officials several CDs that contained Navy weapons data, specifically information on Quiet Electric Drive (QED) systems used in Navy warships, officials said. An FBI affidavit in the case described the QED technology as "extremely sensitive" and banned from export.

The affidavit stated that surveillance showed that Mr. Tai and his wife were "very nervous" and had discussed the risks of carrying the disks to China.

"They were funneling information to 2 PLA," one official said, referring to the military intelligence unit of the People's Liberation Army. "The Chinese now know more about our military than we know about their entire country." Lawyers for the four arrested yesterday could not be reached for comment.

Investigators think Mr. Tai worked as either a courier or a spy handler with China's Ministry of State Security or the 2 PLA.

Intelligence officials said Mr. Chi held a secret-level security clearance and worked on more than 200 U.S. defense and military contracts as an electrical engineer with the defense contractor Power Paragon, a subsidiary of L3/SPD Technologies/Power Systems Group in Anaheim, Calif.

FBI Agent James E. Gaylord stated in an affidavit made public Monday that Mr. Chi had access to Navy technical records, schematics and other documents that, while unclassified, were "restricted" and barred from foreign distribution.

"Chi uses his workstation at Power Paragon to collect the information he has been tasked to provide to the PRC," Mr. Gaylord stated.

Mr. Chi obtained the information from his office and took it home, where it was copied on CDs and passed to Mr. Tai, who encrypted the data using a coding software program, the affidavit said. Mr. Tai had planned to take the encrypted disks to China on Oct. 28 to give them to an unidentified recipient.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Since 1990? Makes sense to me. Conincides with Billy's occupation of the white house and the Chinese military funding his campaign.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GenrXr wrote:
Since 1990? Makes sense to me. Coincides with Billy's occupation of the white house and the Chinese military funding his campaign.


Now we know why Billy wanted to be known as the first black president...so he wouldn't become known as the first communist president! Wink

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently tens of thousands of students in the US are Chinese who are studying abroad. Many of these students have access to intel from university research projects (many of them funded by the DoD) around the USA and other democratic nations.

Some of the students have Chinese government handlers who process and pass on the intel they gather back to the homeland.

Students returning to China are debriefed by their government on arrival.

Chinese students have been welcomed by academia all over the free world. This creates an impressive worldwide Chinese Intel network.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:59 am    Post subject: I Hate It When I'm Right. Reply with quote

It looks like we are finally plugging the holes in our national security:

US in move that may bar foreign researchers
>By Edward Alden and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
>Published: November 24 2005 22:06 | Last updated: November 24 2005 22:06
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The US government is poised to propose rules that could restrict the ability of Chinese and other foreign nationals to engage in high-level research in the country, a plan that is generating fierce opposition from companies and universities.

The move comes amid growing fears in the US that its relatively open rules allowing foreign nationals to work with sensitive technologies leave the country open to espionage.

Law enforcement and intelligence officials fear China in particular could be using some of its more than 150,000 students in the US to spy on behalf of Beijing.

In a few weeks, the commerce department is expected to respond to a report by its inspector-general, which warned of the espionage risks last year. The inspector-general’s proposal called for an expansion of the rules that restrict the sharing of advanced technologies with foreign nationals.

Under existing law, companies or universities are required to seek a government export licence if they allow citizens from controlled countries, most prominently China, to engage in research involving technologies with potential military uses.

But licences are not required if a Chinese national becomes a citizen or a permanent resident in another country – such as Canada or the UK – which is not subject to stringent US export controls.

There are particular concerns about the tens of thousands of Chinese who have taken out citizenship in countries that exchange technology freely with the US.
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Universities fury over plan to curb ‘Chinese spies’


The proposal under consideration would expand the so-called “deemed export” requirement to cover anyone born in China or other controlled countries such as Iran and North Korea, even if they had taken out citizenship in another country.

The idea has particularly angered US universities, which have seen the enrolment of foreign students drop sharply owing to the stricter visa requirements imposed after the September 11 2001 terror attacks.

International student enrolment at US colleges and universities has fallen by 1.3 per cent in the last academic year, following a 2.4 per cent fall the year before.

“The most alarming outcome of this proposed rule will be the substantial negative impact on attracting the best and brightest people from round the world to participate in the conduct of basic and applied research, which is of extraordinary social and economic value to the nation,” wrote Robert Goldston, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics laboratory, in one of hundreds of comments sent to the commerce department in the past six months.

Lawyers and lobbyists following the debate in the US government say the administration might opt for a less restrictive rule than that proposed in the inspector-general’s report.

A senior commerce department official said that whatever rule was adopted would “strive to protect national security while meeting the needs of industry and academia”.

“Controls on the release of technology to foreign nationals in the US must – and can – protect national security while allowing business and the academic research community to employ the world’s best minds, no matter their nationality.”

A blind man could see this problem.

The Commies must be spinning over this loss of covert agents. I'm sure the Chinese are funding the lawyers and lobbyists along with Gore and Clinton.

LINK HERE: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5a57b68e-5d2f-11da-8cde-0000779e2340.html

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would bet money that whatever it is that Clinton wants, a Chinese/N.korean/Vietnamese will get it for him.
He sold this country down the river big time in my book. Sometime, somewhere his shenannigens will come to light.
I hope.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blue Light Specials:

Carter: Panama Canal
Clinton: all of the above....

but my personal favorite:
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The idea has particularly angered US universities, which have seen the enrolment of foreign students drop sharply owing to the stricter visa requirements imposed after the September 11 2001 terror attacks.


As in the sixties, when our universities were hotbeds of communism (anti capitalists), today many might as well be sleeper cells (anti capitalists)! Journalists will always have a willing source of [paid] spokesmen [students] to 'Blame America First', whether they import them or export them!
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