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В США взяли китайских агентов
Добрый день!
4 человек по 2 делам о шпионаже. По первому делу источником китайцев был сотрудник агентства по оборонному сотрудничеству Пентагона Грегг Бергенсен, он сливал китайцам информацию о поставках оружия Тайваню , тайваньских программах модернизации систем связи и управления и американскоЙ системе Global Information Grid. По второму - 72-летний бывший инженер Boeing китайского происхождения, он воровал информацию с 1972 г включая данные по таким проектам как Space Shuttle, Delta IV и C-17.
Four arrested in US-China spy cases
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
Published: February 11 2008 18:31 | Last updated: February 12 2008 02:59
The US on Monday announced a series of arrests in cases involving alleged spying by the Chinese government, including one where a Pentagon official was alleged to have helped Beijing obtain secret information.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Gregg Bergersen, a Pentagon employee with top secret security clearances, for allegedly providing a Chinese government agent with information about US weapons sales to Taiwan. In another case, Chung Dongfan, a former Boeing employee, was arrested for economic espionage involving US military programmes.
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Read the Justice department’s case against Kuo, Bergersen and Kang
The arrests highlight the growing concern in the US about Chinese military and industrial espionage. Kenneth Wainstein, assistant attorney-general for national security, on Monday said the Bergersen case was a “classic espionage operation.”
Mr Wainstein said it involved “a foreign government focused on accessing our military secrets, foreign operatives who effectively use stealth and guile to gain that access, and an American government official who is willing to betray both his oath of public office and the duty of loyalty we rightly demand from every American citizen”.
Mr Bergersen, a 51-year-old Defence Security Co-operation Agency employee, was accused of providing sensitive information to Kuo Taishen, a 58-year-old Taiwanese-born US national who operates a furniture business in New Orleans, who allegedly sent the information to a Chinese government official, sometimes over encrypted e-mail.
The Justice department on Monday released an affidavit from an FBI investigator supporting the criminal complaint against Mr Bergersen, Mr Kuo, and Kang Yuxin, a 33-year-old Chinese woman who allegedly acted as a “cut out”, or intermediary, with the Chinese official, who is referred to as “PRC Official A”.
The affidavit describes a series of phone conversations and e-mails during which Mr Bergersen and Mr Kuo would arrange meetings where the Pentagon official would provide information about US weapons sales to Taiwan. But the affidavit also makes clear that Mr Bergersen appeared not to know that Mr Kuo was a Chinese agent.
The document says the PRC official’s contact details also appeared in the address books of a former US defence contractor, who was separately convicted for acting as a Chinese spy and violating US export control laws.
The Justice department said Mr Kuo cultivated Mr Bergersen and other US government employees, who provided him with classified information. One official said the investigation is ongoing.
According to the affidavit, Mr Kuo on at least two occasions warned the Chinese official that the US was becoming more vigilant about possible Chinese and Russian spying.
“DC is really watch Russia and China’s spy action,” Mr Kuo wrote to the official in September.
According to e-mails and transcripts of phone calls released by the Justice department, Mr Kuo appeared most interested in possible future US weapons sales to Taiwan in addition to technology Taipei would buy for its “Po Sheng” – “Broad Victory” programme aimed at improving its communications, intelligence, and surveillance capabilities.
But Mr Kuo also expressed interest in the Global Information Grid, a computer network that links together various US military sites. According to the affidavit, Mr Bergersen e-mailed Mr Kuo some information about the system in May 2007.
On one occasion, Mr Bergersen appeared to let Mr Kuo take notes from a classified document regarding past, and potential future, weapons sales to Taiwan. On their way to the restaurant where Mr Kuo copied the information over lunch, Mr Bergersen warned him to be careful about letting the information fall into the wrong hands.
“I would be fired for sure. I, I’d go to jail,” Mr Bergersen said, according to a transcript of a secretly taped conversation included in the affidavit.
After leaving the restaurant close to Dulles airport outside Washington, Mr Bergersen renewed his concerns, saying “Fuck, I’d go to jail, I don’t wanna go to jail,” before warning that Mr Kuo should make sure there are “no fingerprints”.
In the second case, Mr Chung, a 72-year-old former Boeing employee and naturalised US citizen, was arrested for allegedly stealing Boeing trade secrets related to the Space Shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV rocket, “allegedly obtained the materials for the benefit of the PRC”.
“Mr Chung is accused of stealing restricted technology that had been developed over many years by engineers who were sworn to protect their work product because it represented trade secrets,” said Thomas O’Brien, the US attorney in charge of the case. “Disclosure of this information to outside entities like the PRC would compromise our national security.”
Last year, Donald Keyser, a former high-ranking State department expert on China, was sentenced to a year in prison for illegally keeping classified documents at his home, and for making false statements to investigators about a 2003 trip to Taiwan where he was involved in a relationship with a Taiwanese intelligence official.
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Tuesday February 12, 12:49 PM
Pentagon official, three others charged with spying for China
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US defense official, an ex-Boeing engineer and two others were charged Monday with spying for China involving sensitive military and aerospace secrets, including on the space shuttle.
The four were linked to two espionage conspiracies, which the US Justice Department said posed a "grave danger" to national security.
Pentagon official Gregg William Bergersen, Chinese citizen Yu Xin Kang and Taiwan-born US citizen Tai Shen Kuo were accused of passing classified information to China, mostly pertaining to US military sales to Taiwan, according to Justice Department officials.
Bergersen, 51, is a weapons systems policy analyst at the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which implement the US Defense Department's foreign military sales program.
In another case, former Boeing engineer Dongfan "Greg" Chung, a China-born US citizen, was charged with stealing and turning over trade secrets also to Beijing, including the space shuttle used for US human space flight missions.
Aside from the shuttle, Chung, 72, was charged with economic espionage involving the C-17 military transport plane and the Delta IV rocket -- designed to launch manned space vehicles -- while he worked at Boeing and, before that, at US defense contractor Rockwell International.
Both FBI-probed cases had a common objective: "to get a hold of our nation's military secrets," Assistant US Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein told reporters.
"Such espionage networks pose a grave danger to our national security and to our economic position in the world," he said.
They were complete with traditional elements of spy tradecraft, including foreign handlers, payoffs, cut-out couriers, intelligence taskings to an aerospace engineer and a "compromised government employee," he said.
China's foreign secret service is among the "most aggressive" in trying to steal sensitive US military technology and information, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell charged recently.
Chinese and Russian spies, he said, were stalking the United States at levels close to those seen during the tense covert espionage duels of the Cold War.
The four were arrested Monday and, according to Justice Department officials, at least Bergersen and Kuo had made initial court appearances in Alexandria, Virginia, south of Washington.
Their attorneys were not immediately available for comment.
Kuo, 58, is accused of having worked under the direction of an unnamed Chinese official to obtain classified US defense information from Bergersen, who maintains a "top secret security clearance" at the Pentagon.
Kang, 33, who is a US permanent resident, was named as a "conduit of information" between Kuo and the Chinese official.
Kuo and Kang, both of New Orleans, Louisiana, face up to life in prison if convicted for the charge of criminal conspiracy to disclose national defense information to a foreign government.
Bergersen, who resides in Alexandria, Virginia, was charged with disclosing national defense information to unauthorized persons, which could bring up to 10 years in prison.
Chung, 72, who lives in Orange, California, was charged with economic espionage, having allegedly received directives since as early as 1979 from China's aviation industry telling him to collect specific information.
Chung was charged with eight counts of economic espionage -- each of which carries a maximum possible 15 year prison sentence and 500,000 dollar fine -- and six other related charges.
The Justice Department said the Chung case is linked to its investigation into California resident and Chinese-born engineer Chi Mak and members of his family, who were convicted last year for providing US defense articles to China.
Chi Mak, 66, who had worked for a US company with several Navy contracts, is scheduled to be sentenced on March 24.
"Mr. Chung is accused of stealing restricted technology that had been developed over many years by engineers who were sworn to protect their work product because it represented trade secrets," said US Attorney Thomas O'Brien.
"Disclosure of this information to outside entities like the PRC would compromise our national security," he said.
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