Chinese shipbuilding boss gave CIA aircraft carrier secrets, reports claim

 

One of China’s most senior shipbuilding executives, who has not been seen in public for nearly two weeks, has been charged with giving secrets about China’s aircraft carriers to the United States. Sun Bo, 57, is general manager of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), China’s largest state-owned maritime manufacturer, which leads nearly every major shipbuilding project of the Chinese navy. Most notably, Sun headed the decade-long retrofitting of the Liaoning, a Soviet-built aircraft carrier that was commissioned to the Chinese Navy’s Surface Force after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Officials say Chinese spies have targeted every sector of the U.S. economy

The Chinese are playing dirty in the international spy game, according to current and former intelligence officials at the highest levels of government.

“This is stealing American wealth.  It’s stealing American jobs.  It’s stealing American competitive advantage,” General Michael Hayden, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, said in an interview with NBC News.