Boeing Engineer Arrested for Spying

Gave Space Shuttle Secrets to China

UPDATE: 3 More Charged with Spying

"He spied for his home country out of love for "the motherland" rather than from a desire to get rich."

Another spy arrested.

Again, for giving secrets to China.

This time, it's "exposed trade secrets from the space shuttle, the Delta IV rocket and the C-17 military transport aircraft."

The Justice Department is reporting that former Boeing engineer Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 72, of Orange, Calif was arrested on espionage charges early this morning. The indictment contends that Chung a former Rockwell employee, and subsequently Boeing engineer sold or gave secrets concerning the Space Shuttle to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).

The press release claims that Chung was arrested without incident at his home in California.

The indictment, which apparently was finalized last Wednesday accuses Chung of eight counts of economic espionage, one count of conspiracy to commit economic espionage, one count of acting as an unregistered foreign agent without prior notification to the Attorney General, one count of obstruction of justice, and three counts of making false statements to FBI investigators.

The 72-year-old Chung was involved with the Space Shuttle up until his retirement in 2002, however he was brought back as a consultant until 2006.

The indictment alleges that he took and concealed Boeing trade secrets relating to the Space Shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV rocket while employed on the project. Chung allegedly obtained the materials for the benefit of the PRC.

According to Thomas P. O'Brien, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, "He spied for his home country out of love for "the motherland" rather than from a desire to get rich."

If found guilty, Chung can expect to live out the rest of his days behind bars: each of the major counts carries a 15-year prison term.

He was expected to make a brief appearance in court yesterday or today.

The Chinese have made War in Space a top priority and have experimented over the last year with methods of knocking out U.S. satellites, rendering America "electronically blind" in any confrontation with the People's Republic.

At least the authorities have caught this spy.

How many are walking around free?

UPDATE: 3 others have also been charged with spying. From 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. Will there be others?

by Mondoreb
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* Boeing Engineer Charged with Giving Shuttle Secrets to the Chinese
* Orange County Man accused of being a Spy



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Israel's Strike On Syria: Sets Off A Nuclear Reaction Among the Anti-War Crowd

[photo:Reuters]Whether the Site Was Nuclear or Not, The Anti-War Left's Reaction Was
by Mondoreb

The news that the site the Israeli strike had hit was "nuclear" set off a nuclear reaction on the Left. It sounded like the droning of an air raid siren. First the story from ABC News:

Israeli officials believed that a target their forces bombed inside Syria last month was a nuclear facility, because they had detailed photographs taken by a possible spy inside the complex, ABC News has learned.

Word that Israel may have had a spy inside was nonsense to some. Evil Dick Cheney and his minions had to be involved. Or maybe it was the Bushitler at work again. Both thoughts whipped the Left into a epileptic meringue. From Newshoggers:

So basically these anonymous officials - called David Addington, Steven Hadley and Elliot Abrams - couldn't "assess" jack-sh*t about the building's origins even if it was a fully-functional reactor. But it wasn't - it was a building site that maybe someone should have mentioned their worries about to the IAEA. Nothing more and impossible to assess as anything more. And the Israelis bombed it while the Cheneyites held their glands for them.

This was followed by this confident assessment from American Street:

No nuclear material was present. Despite their claims to know what it was going to someday be, what evidence is there really? None. Speculation. And another government feels it has the right to attack based on a guess. Uh-huh.

To the anti-war crowd, who never met an American interest they'd defend, the attack at Pearl Harbor was a Bush plot.

Several days ago, first it was reported that the site was nuclear. From the Jerusalem Post:

In its first admission by a state official, Syria's ambassador to the UN confirmed that an air raid carried out by Israeli fighter jets deep in Syrian territory on September 6 was, indeed, an attack on a Syrian nuclear facility, Israel Radio reported Wednesday morning.

The Syrian envoy disclosed the nature of the target during a meeting of a UN committee where Israeli envoys were also present.

A senior source in the Foreign Ministry confirmed that the statement was made in New York by the Syrian official.

Then it was denied. From AFP:

"Although the interpreter suggested that the Syrian delegate had referred to an attack on a nuclear facility, what he said was 'like what happened on the 6 of September against my country'," Haq said after UN officials reviewed the Arabic tape of the remarks. "There was no use of the word nuclear".

Of course, first one member of the Syrian government denied the strike altogether in their own media at almost the same time another was confirming it. They were no help.

Whether the strike turns out to be against a nuclear facility or not, the knee-jerking yelp of the anti-war crew is not only mindless, it's predictable. Until mushroom clouds rise over Haifa, they aren't convinced that anything good can come of military options, the state of Israel or any American action or inaction involving either.

Israel struck a nuclear site? Deny it. Military force? Bad. Blogging by the same Evil Dick Cheney formula? Very very good!

One doesn't know for certain the facts relating to the Israeli strike. But the facts of the anti-war Left's reaction to any military actions is known: a droning chorus of those who don't know pretending that they do.



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