APPENDIX VII

PRINCIPAL CASES INVOLVING CHINESE SPIES IN THE UNITED STATES

February 1984	Kuang Shi Lin and four other Chinese people arrested for attempting to export electronics.
December 1987	deputy military attaché Hou Desheng and consul in Chicago Zhang Weichu arrested by the FBI and deported for spying.
1992	Bin Wu, a former Guoanbu “deep-water fish”, recruited into dissident circles after Tiananmen. Originally a professor of philosophy, he was “turned” by the FBI but was later sentenced to ten years in prison for theft of military technology.
December 1993	Kao Yenmen, a North Carolina restaurant owner, tries to buy missile components for sale in Beijing. He is deported and sent to Hong Kong.
March 1998	Peter Lee, a Taiwanese-American researcher at Los Alamos, sentenced to twelve months on bail for having passed secrets to the Chinese about lasers that can be used to simulate detonations of atomic bombs in 1985.
May 1999	arrest of Wen Ho Lee, physicist at Los Alamos, accused of providing information on nuclear weapons in 1988; he is tried for espionage, acquitted, and released in September 2000 with an official apology.
March 1999	Yao Yi, who reports to the PLA2, arrested in Boston along with Xu Zhihong; both men charged with trying to steal secret techniques for manufacturing gyroscopes with optical fibre that can be used for missiles.
June 2000	the Xinhua News Agency accused of trying to buy a building in Washington to spy on the Pentagon.
April 2001	two Chinese men from the PRC (Lin Hai and Xu Kai) and a Chinese-American (Cheng Yong-Qing) arrested by the FBI for stealing software from a company called Lucent (they had set up a joint venture to market it in China).
May 2003	arrest of Katherine Leung, described in the media as a Chinese Mata Hari and accused of having played an active role in the stalemate of the FBI’s investigation into the Chinese financing of Bill Clinton’s election committee. Like Lee, she is acquitted.
2004	a couple arrested and charged with selling $500,000 worth of electronic components to the Chinese for their missile system.
June 2006	trial of Ronald Montaperto, former head of the China Section of the Defense Intelligence Agency, who was recruited by the air attaché, General Yu Zhenghe.
March 2007	Chi Mak, a Chinese-American, found guilty of stealing technology concerning the US Navy. He is sentenced to twenty-four years in prison in 2008.
2008	Tai Shen Kuo, Gregg Bergesen and Yu Xin Kang each sentenced in three separate trials to fifteen years’ imprisonment, for passing information to the Chinese about the technical data of precision weapons and their sale to Taiwan.
2010	Dongfan “Greg” Chung, an Orange County (California) Boeing engineer, sentenced to fifteen years in prison for handing over technical secrets to China, including data about the Space Shuttle.
April 2011	Xiang Dong Yu, also known as Mike Yu, and his wife Shanshan Du, both Ford engineers in Detroit, sentenced to three years and one year respectively, for passing confidential economic data about the company to the Chinese.
February 2012	computer company CYBERsitter (California) signs a transaction agreement for $2  billion (settlement for a $2.2  billion suit) after suing Lenovo and several other companies for code theft in 2010.
September 2014	US military contractor Benjamin Bishop sentenced to seven years for furnishing national defence secrets about the military command in Hawaii to his Chinese girlfriend online.
March 2017	diplomat Candace Claiborne of the State Department accused of treason; she reportedly provided information to the Shanghai Guoanbu, for payment in money and gifts, on the US government’s stance regarding economic negotiations with China.