June 11, 2012: Jianyu Huang, a Chinese scientist working in the
United States, has been arrested and charged with passing stolen
technology back to China. Huang was fired from his
nanotechnology research job in April and has been charged with
stealing and lying to security officials about these activities.
Huang was born in China but moved to the U.S. and became an
American citizen. American intelligence and counter-intelligence
agencies have increasingly been paying close attention to
Chinese born American scientists, seeking out the minority that
use their access to American technology secrets to either give
or sell this valuable material to government or commercial
organizations in China. This is all part of extensive Chinese
intelligence efforts to steal American technology. China sees
this kind of broad-spectrum intelligence gathering as a major
operation and one they intend to keep going as long as possible.
Thus, during the last four years China has established eight
National Intelligence Colleges in m