ICE: Students from Iran, Russia, China stealing military, high-tech secrets
by Paul Bedard
| June 05, 2019 11:13 AM
In a new warning about immigrant crime, a top ICE official Wednesday said that Iran, Russia, and China are using visiting students to steal military and high-tech secrets from schools and research centers, many funded by U.S. taxpayers.
“The threat posed by adversarial nation-states illegally and subversively seeking to exploit legitimate educational and research opportunities in the United States, many of which are funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars, is real,†said Louis A. Rodi III, acting director of the national security investigations division.
His department, Rodi testified to the Senate Finance Committee, “knows that these countries are actively implementing a multitude of schemes to illicitly or subversively acquire and transfer export-controlled military and dual use technology and commodities, and are employing myriad schemes to circumvent U.S. export control laws.â€
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