FBI raid ongoing in Chinese spy case

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - The FBI was raiding a home in New Orleans on Monday in connection with a spy investigation of U.S. military secrets being illegally given to China.

A Defense Department analyst with security clearances was among the three or four people being charged in what law enforcement officials described as separate cases in Virginia and California.

It was not immediately clear how the Louisiana raid was related, but FBI spokeswoman Sheila Thorne said the case would be discussed at a news conference addressing the espionage cases that was planned for 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at the Justice Department in Washington.



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Source: WSJ Online

A Defense Department analyst and two Chinese nationals were accused of selling military secrets to China, the Justice Department said. Separately, a former Boeing engineer was charged with passing space shuttle secrets to China. Full article coming soon.

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Source: Washington Post

Federal agents today arrested four people on espionage charges, including a Defense Department employee from Alexandria, and accused them of passing classified information to China that included details about the Space Shuttle and U.S. military sales to Taiwan.

The DOD employee, Gregg William Bergersen, 51, was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria with conspiracy to disclose national defense information. He is a weapons policy analyst at the Arlington-based Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Also charged in federal court in Alexandria were Tai Shen Kuo, 58, and Yu Xin Kang, 33, both of New Orleans.

Court documents said that Kuo obtained classified documents from Bergersen, often in exchange for cash, at a series of meetings across Northern Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina and Las Vegas. Much of the information was about U.S. military sales to Taiwan, the court documents said. Kuo and Kang face up to life in prison if convicted. Bergersen, of Alexandria, faces up to 10 years in prison.

In a separate case also linked to China, a former Boeing Co. engineer was arrested on charges that he stole Boeing trade secrets related to the Space Shuttle and other programs, including the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV rocket. Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 72, of Orange, Calif., faces charges of economic espionage, obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021101283.html

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