pui leung was happy. he said, hey, when you land, call my cell phone number. it s a number we saw repeatedly throughout the case. and they hung up. and a few days later, tai calls his brother and says, chi mak, i m going to china. we briefed the head of navy nuclear reactors, and he says the quiet electric drive can t leave the united states. you must stop it from leaving the united states. qed was too sensitive. it was the deciding factor that we had to make an arrest for the
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right moment, all the elements were in place to take them down, all coordinated at the same time with the exact moment of the arrest of chi mak and rebecca at their house. it was about 11:30 at night. we showed them the search warrant. we told them what they were under arrest for and transported them to the fbi office to be processed. after following someone around for two years and getting to know them without ever speaking to them it makes the first conversation quite an awkward one. jim gaylord and gunnar would finally hear from chi mak, his own mouth, what his story was. i don t care you believe me. i just tell the fact, that s all. okay. give me an explanation for why those two are in your trash and
i have that advantage. we learned there was a leak inside power paragon, a subsidiary of l-3 communications. most of their work is in electronics. the technology being leaked to china was navy destroyer information and submarine information. in the beginning, we didn t know exactly who was the source of the leak at power paragon. we take a look at a number of factors. we look at travel. we look at access. after we sifted through all the information, it came down to one person. and it was chi mak. chi mak was born in china. he moved to the united states with his wife. he became an engineer in southern california in the 1980s.
a 24-plus year sentence in prison. the rest of the family had served out their sentence and had been deported to china. chi got a just sentence and we learned a great deal about the chinese methods of operation. the mak case represented how the chinese used family. in a family you can trust one another and you know who they are and allows them to have natural relationships, but the results of our investigation, we caught a family who was committing espionage. we caught a family of spies. this ended up being a milestone case. it showed that we could convict people on these sorts of charges and since then, across the country, we ve been able to successfully charge and prosecute people for espionage, and espionage-type crimes. chi mak stole sensitive navy information and gave it to the chinese government for over a