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FORMER BOEING ENGINEER CHARGED WITH ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE IN THEFT OF SPACE SHUTTLE SECRETS FOR CHINA
February 11, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles Field Office issued the following press release:

A former Boeing engineer was arrested this morning after being indicted last week on charges of economic espionage and acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the People's Republic of China (PRC), for whom the engineer stole Boeing trade secrets related to several aerospace programs, including the Space Shuttle.

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