A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co.
were charged Monday in separate spy cases for allegedly handing
over military secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice
Department said.Additionally, two immigrants from China and Taiwan
accused of working with the defense analyst were arrested after an
FBI raid Monday morning on a New Orleans home where one of them
lived. The two cases _ based in Alexandria, Va., and Los Angeles
_ have no connection, and investigators said it was merely a
coincidence that charges would be brought against both on the same
day.The arrests mark China's latest attempts to gain top secret
information about U.S. military systems and sales, said Assistant
Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein. He described China as
"particularly adept, and particularly determined and methodical in
their espionage efforts.""The threat is very simple," Wainstein
said at a Justice Department news conference in Washington. "It's
a threat to our national security and to our economic position in
the world, a threat that is posed by the relentless efforts of
foreign intelligence services to penetrate our security systems
and steal our most ...
(AP Online 02:11 PM ET 02/11/2008)

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