when a chinese spy was extradited to the U.
S. The FBI got its hands on a remarkable
resource. His iphone, it shed valuable light on
how Asia's largest economy steals top secret technology. Xu
yan jun was an agent of china's ministry of State
Security when he was arrested in brussels in 2018.
How could the FBI prove it on his iphone was
an official form that listed his job as deputy division
director at the it might as well have said profession
spy shoes main job was stealing defense and aviation innovations
from firms such as General Electric in 2014 for instance
, a colleague distracted a british engineer over a banquet
in Nanjing while she was upstairs in his hotel room
copying the content of his laptop shu said he needs
three hours speeded up came the response between messages to
seemingly extramarital lovers shoe our specialists from china's top aviation
companies what sort of intel they needed. Then set
about cultivating the sources who could provide it. One
such source was a ge engineer who would ultimately precipitate
his downfall. After being rumbled by the FBI,
the engineer turned double agent and offered to meet shoe
at a cafe in brussels. It was of course
a setup. En route to that fateful meeting shoe
messaged his wife that there was a U. S
. B. Stick hidden at home for which she'd
be given the password was something to happen to him
. She responded, oh my God, don't scare
me like this. The next day he was arrested
, He now resides in Ohio jail facing up to
60 years in prison