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Chi Mak (traditional Chinese: 麥大志; simplified Chinese: 麦大志; Jyutping: mak6 daai6 zi3; pinyin: Mài Dàzhì; 28 September 1940 - 31 October 2022) was a Chinese-born [1] naturalized American citizen who worked as an engineer for California-based defense contractor Power Paragon, a part of L-3 Communications. [2]
Chi Mak: 29252-112: Was serving a 24-year sentence; released on October 31, 2022. [23] Former engineer for the Boeing aerospace company; convicted in 2007 of conspiracy to commit economic espionage and other charges for stealing restricted information related to the US Space Shuttle program and Delta IV rocket for the Chinese government. [24] [25]
In May 2007, Chi Mak was convicted of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system capable of making submarines undetectable. [26] In 2008, he was sentenced to a 24 + 1 ⁄ 2 -year prison term for espionage.
A 1999 United States House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military and Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China report, known as the Cox Report, warned that China has stolen classified information on every thermonuclear warhead in the country's intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal. [31]
On November 17, 1970, the idea for a prisoners union was born at a press conference held by former prisoners in support of the 1970 Folsom Prison strike. [2]: 202 Its constitution argued that prisoners were an enslaved social class with the right to collective struggle for better conditions: [2]: 202–3
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In 2005, a California-based broadcast and engineering director for the channel, Tai Wang Mak, was arrested for conspiring with his brother, Chi Mak, to act as an intelligence agent for China. [16] A 10-year prison sentence was announced in 2008. [17] [18]
the prosecution of Chi Mak in 2007 as a result of (among other things) the attempted export of USML items to the PRC (Chi Mak was subsequently sentenced to 24½ years in federal prison). [54] Since 1990, the U.S. Government has also operated the "Blue Lantern" end-use monitoring program. [55]