Remember when stories like this were indisputable evidence that the Clinton administration was dangerously inept? Ah, good times!
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Monday announced the indictment and arrest of a longtime aerospace worker in Southern California for allegedly passing classified documents to China in an elaborate espionage endeavor that spanned two decades and exposed trade secrets from the space shuttle, the Delta IV rocket and the C-17 military transport aircraft.
Dongfan Chung, 72, a native of China who became a naturalized U.S. citizen and adopted the nickname “Greg,” was arrested at his home in Orange and taken before a federal judge in Santa Ana. He was released after posting a $250,000 property bond.
According to Thomas P. O’Brien, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, Chung spent more than 30 years as an engineer in the aerospace industry, working for Rockwell International and Boeing, and had a security clearance. He spied for his home country out of love for “the motherland” rather than from a desire to get rich, O’Brien said.
