Justice Dept. Announces Arrests in 2 Chinese Espionage Cases

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Source: NYT

WASHINGTON — Federal officials arrested a Defense Department official in Virginia on Monday and charged him with passing to agents of China classified defense documents about Taiwan’s arms purchases.

About the same time, officials arrested a former Boeing engineer in California on charges of economic espionage, specifically stealing trade secrets from Boeing about the space shuttle and other projects on behalf of the Chinese government. There was no direct connection between the arrests, but Justice Department officials announced them together, which seemed to underline what officials described as continuing Chinese efforts to obtain commercial and military secrets.

At a news conference, Kenneth L. Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security, said: “While there are entities from over a hundred different countries trying to get access to our secrets or our controlled technology, there are a number of countries that have proven themselves particularly determined and methodical in their espionage efforts. The People’s Republic of China is one of those countries.”

Mr. Wainstein said, regarding China, “in the last six months, we have filed charges in a half-dozen cases involving efforts to acquire different types of technology, ranging from battlefield night-vision equipment to accelerometers used in the development of smart bombs and missiles.”



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/washington/12spy.html?ref=world

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1. The only surprise in this story is that the "justice" department did anything

After all the Chinese have been stealing from E V E R Y for DECADES!
Anyone who sets up shop in China (Asia in general really) is essentially giving up their right to trademark patent, and TM protections recognized in the rest of the world!
This is a MAJOR reason we need to RE-localize manufacturing again! Not only for our economies, but for protection of trade secrets, et al!

oh well maybe in another life.