PLA Lt. Ye Yanqing was indicted in a separate criminal case involving Dr. Charles Lieber, chairman of Harvard's chemistry department, who was arrested on Tuesday and charged with lying about receiving tens of thousands of dollars from the Wuhan University of Technology and lying to the Pentagon about the foreign money.
The involvement of Lt. Ye and two other senior PLA officers highlights the Chinese military's involvement in Beijing's large-scale program of recruiting foreign specialists.
Lt. Ye falsely stated in visa documents that she was a student and did not disclose her active-duty PLA position, according to court papers.
Investigators say Lt. Ye was under control of "Senior leaders of the PLA while conducting research at Boston University pursuant to a J-1 non-immigrant visa." Those leaders include one colonel and a second lower-ranking officer who were professors at China's National University of Defense Technology in Harbin, China.
Lt. Ye was tasked by the PLA to gather intelligence on U.S. military websites and send documents and information back to China.
Lt. Ye worked on one project that "Focused on a risk-assessment model designed to assist the PLA in deciphering data for military applications," the indictment says.
The interview apparently tipped off Lt. Ye that she was under investigation and ended her work at Boston University's Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, where she worked from October 2017 until last April.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/1/spy-school-chinese-military-officer-busted-posing-/
The involvement of Lt. Ye and two other senior PLA officers highlights the Chinese military's involvement in Beijing's large-scale program of recruiting foreign specialists.
Lt. Ye falsely stated in visa documents that she was a student and did not disclose her active-duty PLA position, according to court papers.
Investigators say Lt. Ye was under control of "Senior leaders of the PLA while conducting research at Boston University pursuant to a J-1 non-immigrant visa." Those leaders include one colonel and a second lower-ranking officer who were professors at China's National University of Defense Technology in Harbin, China.
Lt. Ye was tasked by the PLA to gather intelligence on U.S. military websites and send documents and information back to China.
Lt. Ye worked on one project that "Focused on a risk-assessment model designed to assist the PLA in deciphering data for military applications," the indictment says.
The interview apparently tipped off Lt. Ye that she was under investigation and ended her work at Boston University's Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, where she worked from October 2017 until last April.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/1/spy-school-chinese-military-officer-busted-posing-/
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