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

[onehandle]

Source: Washington Post

Chinese Spying Grows, U.S. Says - Nation has deployed a network of spies, students and scientists to steal U.S. secrets, officials say.

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.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/02/AR2008040203952.html

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Maybe Bush should try apologizing to them again. Pucker up, smirk.

[sam sarrha]

1. we better start buildind shoe/clothes/etc essential factories .. so we can cut them lose

[bronxiteforever]

2. Why would the Chinese spy on a country they already own?

:sarcasm:

[H8fascistcons]

8. Absolutely.....

Excellent point; The Chinese just need to "lay low" and let the criminal Fascist republicans and their corporations bring the technology to them. Their blinded greed will serve the Chinese well...





*Please never forget that the criminal Fascist republicans could not continue to torture and commit crimes against the constitution without the help of the criminal Fascist enablers Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer, Jay Rockefeller, Rahm Emanuel. Please never forget until these criminal Democrats are all voted out of office, they do not get to pick and choose which crimes against the constitution to ignore. We expect this kind of behavior out of the republicans but need to hold Democrats to a higher standard!!!!

[mainer]

3. After Wen Ho Lee, I question these sorts of stories

And without all these Chinese-born engineers and scientists, US companies would be doomed for lack of scientific talent.

So now what? We ban all foreign scientists? As if our rocketry industry would have gone anywhere without importing German rocket scientists.

[cornermouse]

9. That one of the repubs lies.

We have scientific talent here. The companies and the repubs just don't want to pay their salaries. Same things with computer programmers, doctors, nurses, and all the other areas of employment where it has become normal to import workers.

[mainer]

12. Importation of doctors and nurses is necessary

There is indeed a shortage of both. Check out any rural area, and you'll find large numbers of doctors from India and Asia... because no American-born doctors want to serve there. Are these imported doctors paid starvation wages? No.

Medical schools are indeed ramping up to produce more US-trained doctors, but they are expensive institutions to establish. Here in Maine we'd love to start our own M.D. program, but the state can't afford to get one started.

[cornermouse]

13. No. It's not necessary.

I am in a rural area and the doctors here aren't Indian or Asian. According to the phone book their names are as exotic as Ball, Morrison, Pierce, and one Cruz. If I want to see an Indian or Asian doctor, I have to go to the big city.

[mainer]

14. Maybe your "rural" isn't like everyone else's rural

">>>>"VULNERABLE SMALL RURAL HOSPITALS SEEM TO BE MORE RELIANT ON IMGS THAN LARGER OR MORE STABLE RURAL HOSPITALS, AND THERE ARE SUGGESTIONS THAT IMG PHYSICIANS MAY BE PLAYING AN INCREASING ROLE IN STAFFING CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS.

IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY, DELIVERY OR PRACTICE: The presence of one or more IMGs in 45% of CAHs indicates our smallest, most rural hospitals are significantly reliant on graduates of foreign medical schools for medical staffing."<<<



From: nih.gov
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102275557.html

International Medical Graduate Physicians in America's Smallest Rural Communities.

Hagopian A, Thompson M, Kaltenbach E, Hart G.

Abstr AcademyHealth Meet. 20: abstract no. 586.
University of Washington, Family Medicine, Box 355330, Seattle, WA 98195-5330 Tel. [phone] Fax [phone]

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: This study describes the numbers and characteristics of foreign-born international medical graduates (IMGs) staffing America's small, rural 'Critical Access Hospitals' (CAHs). CAHs are a federal category of hospital licensure for rural facilities with 15 or fewer acute care beds that receive cost-based reimbursement from Medicare. STUDY DESIGN: We asked chief executive officers (CEOs) of CAH facilities to complete a survey about the IMGs practicing in their hospitals. The telephone survey, conducted in the winter of 2002, included all CAH facilities in the U.S. certified as of May 1, 2001. We achieved a 96 percent response rate, for a total of 388 CEOs. POPULATION STUDIED: as above PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A typical CAH community has only four physicians, and we found that one of these is a graduate of a non-U.S. medical school. While 24% of the total number of physicians across all CAH communities are IMGs, the number of CAHs that have at least one IMG is much greater (45%). The use of IMGs may also have increased since 1994, a year of significant pro-IMG legislative changes, as we found almost of half of CEOs said their first IMG came to town during or after that year. Additionally, the typical IMG had been in the community three years or less. IMGs were more likely to be found in the most vulnerable of the CAH communities. We found 62% of hospitals in counties classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as 'persistent poverty' had one or more IMGs, compared to 42% of other communities (p=.007). IMGs were also significantly more likely to be found in places reporting trouble with physician recruitment generally, and in CAH facilities with smaller medical staffs. Hospitals east of the Mississippi River rely more heavily on IMGs than hospitals in the west. The majority of IMGs are internists (59%), and 26% are family practitioners. Hospitals with IMGs were less likely to have obstetrical services, perhaps reflecting the specialty distribution of IMGs. The majority (61%) of IMGs come from India, the Philippines and Pakistan. As evaluated by hospital administrators, IMGs were rated an average 4.35 on a scale of 1 to 5 in clinical skills, and 4.02 on interpersonal skills. CONCLUSIONS: Comparing our results with national averages, we confirmed that IMG presence in small, rural CAH communities is no different than in the U.S. generally - about 24% of physicians are IMGs in both CAH communities and across the U.S. as a whole. Nonetheless ...

>>>>VULNERABLE SMALL RURAL HOSPITALS SEEM TO BE MORE RELIANT ON IMGS THAN LARGER OR MORE STABLE RURAL HOSPITALS, AND THERE ARE SUGGESTIONS THAT IMG PHYSICIANS MAY BE PLAYING AN INCREASING ROLE IN STAFFING CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS. <<<

>>>IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY, DELIVERY OR PRACTICE: The presence of one or more IMGs in 45% of CAHs indicates our smallest, most rural hospitals are significantly reliant on graduates of foreign medical schools for medical staffing.<<<

This finding, coupled with decisions by Congress in the fall of 2002 to expand programs designed to attract IMGs to health professional shortage areas in the U.S., signals that the presence of IMGs in rural areas is likely to grow.

Publication Types:
Meeting Abstracts

[Virginia Dare]

4. We'd bettter invade China soon then..

fight them over there, so we're not fighting them here...:sarcasm:

[Fedja]

5. it's not spying

They're just checking for new markets, and as more and more wars happen, selling crap to the army is the all the rage. There's hundreds of thousands of consumers in the middle east who are getting paid in dollars and have nowhere to spend them.

:hide:

[bluesmail]

6. what are ya waitin'for, get moving

[The Stranger]

7. The sentencing judge really "described the lengthy term as a warning to China"?

Now there are some gift-wrapped grounds for appeal if I ever saw them.

[David__77]

10. More witch hunts against Chinese Americans like Wen Ho Lee?

There's a big chorus trying to paint China as "the enemy." The new-style Cold Warriors are present in both parties, unfortunately.

[skoalyman]

11. Chinese Spy 'Slept' In U.S. for 2 Decades

nothin new bush slept for what 7 years so far lol:shrug: