WaPo Espionage- ya really gotta be kidding

WaPo Espionage- ya really gotta be kidding

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Subject: WaPo Espionage- ya really gotta be kidding

Date: Apr 3, 2008 8:20 AM

1) They completely discount US-UK-Israeli international corporate
espionage.
http :// www .aldf,com
which is an Israeli-US Biotech front associated with a for-hire
international corporate
spy firm http :// www .otaotr,com
2) They discount the fact the Mossad is running circles around the CIA
(9/11 Dancing
Israelis).
3) They discount the fact that Michael Chertoff gives Israel whatever
DHS info they
want.
4) They discount the facts of AmDocs and Foxcom being Israeli and not
American companies
handling all US telephone transaction records and could as easily have
a back door
as any of the telecoms about to be granted retroactive immunity for
conspiring with
the US government to violate the law (think about it- there could be
back doors
for the telecoms, since they clearly know how to do it).
5) They completely discount the fact that the incredibly stupid people
who work
for duh DCF or duh cops are being used for their wiretapping bag jobs
as the henchmen
for corporate crimes (BigPharma and in the case of Lyme,
BigInsurance):
http :// www .actionlyme.org/LYNNAE LAKE CASE.htm

6) They completely discount the Sibel Edmonds data involving Mark
Grossman et al
stealing US nuclear secrets and selling them to the Turks and
elsewhere, creating
the "terrorists" we allegedly exist as a nation to hunt down, as if
Life
on Earth was a fox hunt in the Royal Forest and we in the US are the
Lords and Ladies.
http :// www .actionlyme.org/080128.htm

This story, below, is a distraction.

The US Military is quite concerned about outcomes in the Middle East
right now and
about what Israel will do, since US troops will suffer the backlash
from Iran, Syrian,
Hizbullah, and associates of Sadr,... and fallout.

So, they're selective prosecuting the Chinese, big whoop, what about
all the
mistaken shipments of detonators to Taiwan, the epidemic of Israeli
and corporate
spying, Biodefense contracts given to crooks like SmithKline and
Kaiser...

...the CDC and their own little clique of personal friends and
business partners
like Alan Barbour and Sven Bergstrom in Sweden.

Give us a break. The average blogger knows more about US intentions
and materiel
than the DoD, the FBI (who focus on porn and set up stings etc as a
way to bag political
enemies), or the CIA.

Cops are cops and stupid, and the same cross applies to any macho
wannabee idiot,
since that's the nature of cops.

If they were smart, they would not be cops.

Here, below they focus on the Chinese but ignore Israeli war criminals
who live
here in the US and have dual US Citizenship, like Michael Chertoff,
Durland Fish,
Mark Klempner, Larry Zemel, Henry Feder, Eugene Shapiro, Alan Barbour,
Allen Steere
(whose sister lives in Sweden, like Sven Bergstrom... what a
coincidence) and Joe
Lieberman.

Kathleen M. Dickson

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Chinese Spy 'Slept' In U.S. for 2 Decades
Espionage Network Said to Be Growing

By Joby Warrick and Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 3, 2008; A01

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the "perfect sleeper agent," though he
hardly
looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born
engineer lived quietly
with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a
steady job with
a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a
security clearance.
Colleagues remembered him as a hard worker who often took paperwork
home at night.

Eventually, Mak's job gave him access to sensitive plans for Navy
ships, submarines
and weapons. These he secretly copied and sent via courier to China --
fulfilling
a mission that U.S. officials say he had been planning since the
1970s.

Mak was sentenced last week to 24 1/2 years in prison by a federal
judge who described
the lengthy term as a warning to China not to "send agents here to
steal America's
military secrets." But it may already be too late: According to U.S.
intelligence
and Justice Department officials, the Mak case represents only a small
facet of
an intelligence-gathering operation that has long been in place and is
growing in
size and sophistication.

The Chinese government, in an enterprise that one senior official
likened to an
"intellectual vacuum cleaner," has deployed a diverse network of
professional
spies, students, scientists and others to systematically collect U.S.
know-how,
the officials said. Some are trained in modern electronic techniques
for snooping
on wireless computer transactions. Others, such as Mak, are technical
experts who
have been in place for years and have blended into their communities.

"Chi Mak acknowledged that he had been placed in the United States
more than
20 years earlier, in order to burrow into the defense-industrial
establishment to
steal secrets," Joel Brenner, the head of counterintelligence for the
Office
of the Director of National Intelligence, said in an interview. "It
speaks
of deep patience," he said, and is part of a pattern.

Other recent prosecutions illustrate the scale of the problem. Mak,
whose sentence
capped an 18-month criminal probe, was the second U.S. citizen in the
past two weeks
to stand before a federal judge after being found guilty on espionage-
related charges.

On Monday, former Defense Department analyst Gregg W. Bergersen
pleaded guilty in
Alexandria to charges that he gave classified information on U.S.
weapons sales
to a businessman who shared the data with a Chinese official.

In March, the Reston company WaveLab pleaded guilty to violating
export laws when
it shipped militarily sensitive power amplifiers to China, according
to court papers.
A lawyer for the company said it neglected to get proper licenses and
did not engage
in "underhanded" behavior.

Dongfan Chung, a Boeing engineer arrested in February for allegedly
passing classified
space shuttle and rocket documents to Chinese officials, was accused
in court documents
of responding to orders from Beijing as long ago as 1979 -- making him
a second
alleged longtime agent.

Yesterday, federal prosecutors in Chicago indicted a software engineer
for allegedly
stealing business trade secrets and trying to take more than 1,000
paper and electronic
documents from a telecommunications company on a one-way trip to China
last year.

The cases are among at least a dozen investigations of Chinese
espionage that have
yielded criminal charges or guilty pleas in the past year. Since 2000,
Immigration
and Customs Enforcement officials have launched more than 540
investigations of
illegal technology exports to China.

The FBI recently heightened its counterintelligence operations against
Chinese activities
in the United States after Director Robert S. Mueller III cited
"substantial
concern" about aggressive attempts to use students, scientists and
"front
companies" to acquire military secrets.

Recent prosecutions indicate that Chinese agents have infiltrated
sensitive military
programs pertaining to nuclear missiles, submarine propulsion
technology, night-vision
capabilities and fighter pilot training -- all of which could help
China modernize
its programs while developing countermeasures against advanced weapons
systems used
by the United States and its allies.

"The intelligence services of the People's Republic of China pose a
significant
threat both to the national security and to the compromise of U.S.
critical national
assets," said William Carter, an FBI spokesman. "The PRC will remain a
significant threat for a long time as they attempt to develop their
military capabilities
and to develop their economy in order to compete in today's world
economy."

While military technology appears to be the top prize, the Chinese
effort is also
aimed at commercial and industrial technologies, which often are
poorly protected,
several officials said. "Espionage used to be a problem for the FBI,
CIA and
military, but now it's a problem for corporations," Brenner said.
"It's
no longer a cloak-and-dagger thing. It's about computer architecture
and the
soundness of electronic systems."

Calls placed to the Chinese Embassy in Washington requesting comment
on recent spy
cases were not returned. But Chinese officials have repeatedly denied
that their
country is stealing military technology. "We have reiterated many
times that
allegations that China stole U.S. military secrets are groundless and
made out of
ulterior motives," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said at
a recent
news conference in Beijing, commenting on the Mak case.

But U.S. intelligence and defense officials say China has been able to
use technology
of U.S. origin in a new generation of advanced naval destroyers and
quiet-running,
stealthy submarines.

Some of those secrets may have been obtained with the help of Mak, a
67-year-old
electrical engineer who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1985
along with his
wife, Rebecca Chiu Mak. The two settled in Southern California, where
Mak eventually
accepted a job with Power Paragon, a defense contractor that
specialized in advanced
naval propulsion technology. In 1996, Mak was given a security
clearance at the
"secret" level, which gave him access to sensitive engineering details
for U.S. ships and submarines.

In 2003, Mak became the subject of an intensive federal investigation
that included
court-ordered wiretaps, secret property searches and the clandestine
installation
of a video camera inside his home. Through surveillance, FBI agents
discovered that
Mak was in the process of copying thousands of pages of technical
documents onto
computer disks, which he arranged to send to China using his brother
and sister-in-law
as couriers.

According to court documents, the Maks encrypted the disks to avoid
detection and
used coded words to arrange a drop-off of the disks to a Chinese
intelligence operative.
In one phone conversation, the brother, Tai Wang Mak, intimated that
he would be
traveling with his wife and a third companion he described as his
"assistant"
-- a reference, prosecutors said, to the disks, hidden in his luggage.

The plan was foiled on Oct. 28, 2005, when agents arrested Tai Wang
Mak as he was
preparing to board a plane at Los Angeles International Airport. Chi
Mak and his
wife were arrested at their home the same day.

A key piece of evidence was a to-do list of apparent intelligence
targets, written
in Chinese script. The note, which had been shredded, was retrieved
from Chi Mak's
garbage and painstakingly reassembled to reveal what prosecutors said
were instructions
from Beijing on the kinds of technology Mak should seek to acquire.

Mak, who testified in his defense at his six-week trial, denied he was
a spy and
said the information he copied was available from nonclassified
sources on the Internet.
Defense witnesses said that much, if not all, of the documents
acquired by Mak were
not officially classified, though transmitting them to China was
prohibited under
U.S. export laws. Mak's attorney, Ronald O. Kaye, said his client was
a scapegoat
for other U.S. intelligence failures and a "symbol of the
government's
cold war against the Chinese."

In another recent case, former Northrop Grumman scientist Noshir
Gowadia, who helped
build the B-2 bomber, was indicted last fall for allegedly sharing
cruise missile
data with the Chinese government during a half-dozen trips to China.
He is scheduled
to go on trial in October.

A defense lawyer for Gowadia did not return calls, but Gowadia's
family in Hawaii
has told local journalists that the charges stem from a
misunderstanding.

Robert Clifton Burns, a Washington lawyer who specializes in export
cases, said
the Chinese acquisition of sophisticated U.S. technology "is fast
coming out
from under the radar" as authorities crack down on such shipments to
foreign
powers. But Burns, who closely tracks prosecutions in the area, said
the government
sometimes overstates the risks of exporting U.S. items.

"People who violate export laws should be thrown in jail, no question
about
it," Burns said. But he added that there are also people "who would be
better addressed by . . . a civil result where they get a small fine."

Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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