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For decades, China has been campaigning to introduce and recruit allied researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to a report by information security firm Strider Technologies.
The report claims that between 1987 and 2021, at least 162 scientists who passed through the nuclear institute returned home to work with the Chinese government.
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Of these, 15 were full-time employees, many of whom held very high levels of security clearance.
Scientists returned to “ [People’s Republic of China] To support various research and development (R&D) programs in the country, according to the report.
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“Of the 15, 13 were recruited by the Chinese government’s human resource programs. It was funded by the government.”
Strider Technologies said that “at least one of these staff members holds “Q clearance” from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), granting access to classified and restricted data and national security information.” I discovered that
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In 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of the Inspector General said a lack of oversight at the lab led to the improper disclosure of classified information.
In 1999, scientist Wen Ho Lee was accused of mishandling the nuclear weapons code, but a government case collapsed, ending in a plea bargain freeing the Taiwan-born scientist.
The following year, two computer hard drives containing top-secret nuclear material disappeared and were mysteriously found behind a copy machine.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.