Chinese Spy Arrested
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005Two brothers, who have been sending American Naval secrets to the Chinese military for 22 years, have been arrested by federal investigators:
A defense contractor charged with failing to register as a Chinese agent admitted passing data on U.S. Navy arms technology to China for 22 years, including information on next-generation destroyers, an aircraft carrier catapult and the Aegis weapons system, according to new court papers in the case.
Two federal judges in Los Angeles on Monday reversed earlier rulings and ordered the contractor and his brother held without bond. The rulings followed testimony from FBI agents in the case.
Court papers released Monday, including a detention motion filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Staples, also identified the Chinese military intelligence handler who received the information from defense contractor Chi Mak and his brother Tai Mak, who also is in the Chinese military.
The court documents shed new light on what U.S. intelligence officials say will be one of the most damaging cases of Chinese technology spying on U.S. weapons, even though the information compromised was not secret.
Oh, good lord. How do two Chinese nationals, one of whom is a member of the Chinese military, get hired by the government as a defense contractors? My lord, if you look at the list of military technologies that these guys sent to China you wonder if we could even defend ourselves should they attack us:
According to the papers, Chi Mak admitted passing to China information on:
•Direct current-to-direct current (DDC) converters for submarines.
•A 5,000-amp direct current hybrid circuit breaker for submarines.
•Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), a new system to launch aircraft from carriers using magnets instead of steam.
•The power distribution system for the Aegis weapons system and its Spy-1 radar, used on the Navy’s most advanced guided missile destroyers and cruisers.
•A study that reveals the methods used by U.S. warship personnel to continue operating after being attacked. Officials said the paper is a blueprint for attacking and disabling warships.
•Modifications and Additions to Reactor Facility (MARF), a nuclear reactor located at the Navy’s Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory that’s used for testing prototype nuclear reactors. Investigators found a detailed, hand-drawn map of that facility in Chi Mak’s house.
The fifth item above, the study on operating warships after having been attacked, is the one which worries me. When these communists attack, and the more I think about it, the more I think they will, they will know exactly how to disable our entire Navy and render them ineffective. That means we won’t have any aircraft carriers to send our fighters and bombers to attack enemy targets and to keep the Chinese Navy away from our coastlines.
This is serious folks. I don’t know if it is possible, but these two spies need to be sentenced to death, and the sentence needs to be carried out immediately. I don’t care that the charges were reduced to “failing to register as government agents,” what they have done has irreparably damaged National Security.
Also, it looks like it’s time to examine how the Military monitors and clears the personnel who work as defense contractors. I mean, these guys were operating for over 22 years. You can bet that they are not the only ones.
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