88 Trade Secret Theft, Industrial Espionage, and the China Threat
Case 2
Two naturalized US citizens were convicted of conspiring to illegally export weapons parts to their
native China. They used their exporting company to purchase surplus US missile, aircraft, radar,
and tank parts from the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service and then ship them to the
PRC. The exported items were on the US Munitions List that prohibited them from being shipped
without a license from the State Department.
Case 3
Two Chinese scientists and a naturalized US citizen who was born in China were arrested for steal-
ing product designs from a major US telecommunications rm and passing them to a Chinese gov-
ernment–owned company in Beijing. Both Chinese scientists ...