pretty old news Feb 20, 2008...
On Apr 1, 7:44=A0pm, beernuts <beerwithn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7323698.stm
>
> Summary: =A0A joint Taiwanese-American and Chinese national, both living
> in the U.S., allegedly worked with US Defense Dept. analyst Gregg
> Bergersen to collect and funnel national defense information back to
> the Communist Chinese government for thousands of dollars.
excerpt wrt to the classified information that Mr. Bergersen
released without authorization:
The information passed on related to
Taiwan's new Po Sheng air defence system.
Taiwanese officials said that some damage had
been caused by the disclosures,
but that they had not compromised key technology.
it's a U.S. built Lockheed Martin C4ISR [1] Air Defense system
that Taiwan is buying from the USA. Po Sheng (Broad Victory)
does not work with Taiwan's non USA made equipment
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/19/asia/AS-GEN-Taiwan-China-Spy.php
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/02/20/2003402057
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=3D385&sid=3D1347523
http://www.isrjournal.com/story.php?F=3D2366056
>
> For his part, Bergersen pleaded guilty to the charges, and faces up to
> 10 years in federal prison. =A0Correspondents say Bergersen's admission
> comes amid growing concern in the US about the activities of Chinese
> spies. =A0Four other Chinese spies were arrested in a separate case last
> month for allegedly passing secret details about the space shuttle and
> other US aerospace programs to China.
The spy case about space shuttle secrets sounds alot more
interesting and juicier... :-)
>
> Mr Bergersen, a weapons systems policy analyst at the US Defence
> Security Co-operation Agency (DSCA), was arrested last month with Tai
> Shen Kuo and Yu Xin Kang. =A0The Chinese government has dismissed the
> espionage accusations as groundless and, in typical hackneyed fa****on
> complete with bad English translations of Chinese propaganda, accused
> the US of "Cold War thinking".
Kuo, a 53 year old New Orleans furniture salesman who is
a Taiwanese-US national, and Kang, 33 Chineses national,
faces charges with a max sentence of life in prison.
[1] C4ISR =3D this is a defense industial/military acronym for
Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence,
surveillance, and Reconnaissance
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