Chinese engineer finally got caught after 27 years spying

Dongfan 'Greg' Chung, 72, is shown leaving the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., with an unidentified woman. On Thursday, Mr. Chung became the first person to be tried and convicted under the Economic Espionage Act, which was passed more than a decade ago. (AP file photo).
July 18, New York (Christian Science Monitor) - It almost seems like a Hollywood spy movie: A Boeing engineer takes secret documents and places them inside his newspaper to take home at night. After 27 years, the FBI finally catches on and searches the engineer's garbage. This leads to a search of his home where the agents find 250,000 pages of documents, some hidden in a crawl space under the house. . . continue reading.







