Wednesday, April 10, 2019

China espionage in USA--two sagas in depth

 -Greg Chung, above, was eager to help China.  “He has a big heart,” his wife said.  Mao statue in background.

  Greg Chung was at home on February 1, 2003 when the space shuttle Columbia fell from the sky.  His son Jeffrey called to tell him the news:  the ship had broken apart while returning to Earth, and all seven astronauts on board had died. “That’s not a good joke to make,” Chung said.  An American citizen who was born in China, Chung lived with his wife, Ling, on a cul-de-sac in Orange, California.  Until his retirement a few months earlier he had worked on NASA’s space-shuttle program.  Among other things he had helped to design the Columbia’s crew cabin.  When he realized that Jeffrey was telling the truth he hung up the phone and wept.  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/05/a-new-kind-of-spy
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Chi Mak, a Chinese-born and naturalized U.S. citizen, listens to testimony on Tuesday in this artist's sketch during his trial in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif. Mak was convicted of conspiring to send technical military systems information to China.

 5-12-2014    Among the stacks were manuals and designs for power systems on U.S. Navy ships and concepts for new naval technologies under development.  One set of documents contained information about the Virginia-class submarines, describing ways to cloak submarine propellers and fire anti-aircraft weapons underwater....
  The handwritten text turned out to be a list of naval technologies and programs:  submarine propulsion networks; systems for defending against nuclear, chemical and biological attacks; and others.    https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-f-b-i-cracked-a-chinese-spy-ring

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