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The U.S. has decided to play it’s own game of ‘killing the chicken to scare the monkeys” by sentencingformer boeing engineer<\/a> Chi Mak to a whopping 24 1\/2 years in prison on charges of spying for China. But some say the time for such tactics has already passed. From the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the “perfect sleeper agent,” though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security clearance. Colleagues remembered him as a hard worker who often took paperwork home at night.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Mak’s job gave him access to sensitive plans for Navy ships, submarines and weapons. These he secretly copied and sent via courier to China — fulfilling a mission that U.S. officials say he had been planning since the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Mak was sentenced last week to 24 1\/2 years in prison by a federal judge who described the lengthy term as a warning to China not to “send agents here to steal America’s military secrets.” But it may already be too late: According to U.S. intelligence and Justice Department officials, the Mak case represents only a small facet of an intelligence-gathering operation that has long been in place and is growing in size and sophistication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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