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U.S. engineer jailed 15 years for spying for China

A Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the U.S. space shuttle that prosecutors say he intended to share with China. ...full story at cbcnews

from cbcnews on Tue, Feb 09 2010

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