Another Chinese Spy

The last article I posted would have us believe that the Chinese use propaganda spys to influence and push a particular agenda, as it alluded in the Bobby Fletcher article. But they are after just more than propaganda.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The career of a Chinese-born electrical engineer, Chi Mak, over four decades is a textbook example of how China's spy services encourage their agents to burrow into American society in order to steal America's defense secrets, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

Mr. Mak was arrested in 2005 after FBI agents stopped his brother and sister-in-law at the Los Angeles airport as they were about to travel to Guangzhou, China. In carry-on bags, the couple had a compact disc containing music files, as well as encrypted technical papers pertaining to quiet propulsion and other projects Mr. Mak worked on at Power Paragon.

Mr. Staples said the high-grade encryption was the hallmark of an espionage operation. "It's not an encryption program that you can go to Fry's or Office Depot and buy. It was a custom-made encryption program and its author was a Chinese man," the prosecutor said.