http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1282533
The FBI arrested four people today for allegedly trying to steal
military secrets for China, ABC News has learned. The FBI is worried
that China has accessed military secrets that could put U.S. troops in
danger in times of war.
The four "intelligence agents" were arrested in Los Angeles and are
charged with trying to steal technology that allows U.S. submarines to
move silently underwater. The FBI says one suspect was trying to obtain
secrets about spy satellites, torpedoes, and aircraft carrier
electronics.
According to the FBI, the Chinese are using not only intelligence agents
as spies, but also students, researchers, and businessmen.
"We've seen targeting by the Chinese throughout the United States," said
Timothy Bereznay, deputy assistant director of the FBI's
Counterintelligence Division. "We've had cases in Palo Alto, California;
Wisconsin; Trenton, New Jersey. It's pervasive, it's redundant."
There is more evidence that China is trying to steal other U.S. military
secrets.
Just ten days ago, a former aerospace engineer who helped develop the
B-2 Stealth Bomber was charged as a spy.
At more than $1 billion apiece, the B-2's technology is so secret, the
aircraft remains protected under heavy guard at Whiteman Air Force Base
in Missouri.
"B-2 gives the United States a long-range stealth precision strike
capability that no other country even approaches," said John Pike, a
Global Security.org defense analyst.
But there is growing concern some of the stealth technology, which
allows the B-2 to fly virtually undetected, has been stolen.
Government sources tell ABC News that No****r Gowadia, who helped design
the B-2, sold secrets about the bomber for hundreds of thousands of
dollars to eight nations, including China.
According to recently unsealed court records, the government says
Gowadia gave away two top-secret do***ents, which could cause
"exceptionally grave damage to [U.S.] national security."
The secrets allegedly sold involve technology which allows the bomber to
avoid heat-seeking missiles.
"With China getting this technology," Pike said, "they can do two
things. They can copy it for their own planes possibly. They could also
counter it, getting heat-seeking missiles that can shoot down the
stealth bomber."
The FBI has instructed all of its field offices to create special units
to combat Chinese espionage.
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Isn't this too little too late? IBM, Cisco, HP, Dell and Microsoft have
all handed over more secrets to China and India than some piddling
little design engineer.
Those companies should be seized, and the CEO's shot for treason against
the United States.
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