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When Wei Sun, a 48-year-old engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems, left for an overseas trip last year, he told the company he planned to bring his company-issued HP EliteBook 840 laptop along.
Sun, a Chinese-born American citizen, had been working at Raytheon, the fourth-largest US defense contractor, for a decade. He held a secret-level security clearance and worked on highly sensitive missile programs used by the US military.
Since Sun’s computer contained large amounts of classified data, Raytheon officials told him that taking it abroad would not only be a violation of company policy, but a serious violation of federal law, as well.
Sun had access to sensitive missile defense technology.
Sun didn’t listen, according to US prosecutors. While he was out of the country, Sun connected to Raytheon’s internal network on the laptop. He sent an email on Jan. 7, suddenly announcing he was quitting his job after 10 years in order to study and work overseas.
When Sun returned to the United States a week later, he told Raytheon security officials that he had only visited Singapore and the Philippines during his travels. But inconsistent stories about his itinerary led Sun to confess that he traveled to China with the laptop.
A Raytheon lawyer examined the machine, and confirmed it contained technical specifications prohibited from export by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), in addition to security software that is itself export-controlled and requires a special license to take outside the United States.
Sun was arrested by FBI agents the next day. His attorney, Cameron Morgan, did not respond to a request for comment. Raytheon said only that the company “cooperated with this investigation,” declining to elaborate further.
When Wei Sun, a 48-year-old engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems...
Charles Lieber indictment - Head of Harvard's Biology department was secretly working for the Chicoms under their Thousand Talents program receiving around $800k per year plus expenses for WORKING PART TIME IN THE WUHAN LAB. Guilty of failing to register as a Foreign Agent, failing to notify DOD and failing to pay taxes he was quietly sentenced to a brutal term of around 90 days of home confinement.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/01/28/massachusetts-china-indictments-charles-lieber-yanqing-ye-zaosong-zheng/
BOSTON (CBS) – Three people tied to universities and a hospital in the Boston area were indicted on charges they lied about their ties to China or tried to help the Chinese government. Among them was Dr. Charles Lieber, the chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Prosecutors said Lieber had a contract with Wuhan Institute of Technology. He also ran a group which had contracts with the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health.
Federal agents said Lieber lied about his ties to China when he bid on those contracts.
Lieber is extremely famous and has (had) some chance of getting Nobel. Apparently greed took the best of him. This type of arrangements is very common with China and Saudi Arabia, and finally US of A is going after that.
As a minimum, if you get paid to do research here full-time, you should not be taking employment in other places...as a maximum, do not transfer technology to hostile nations.