if these technologies are lost, then it means we don t have that edge. so, god forbid, if there s ever a conflict in the pacific that involves china with us on the other side, then i believe lost technology will cost u.s. lives. and that s one of the things that makes me angry. in the fbi we have to follow principles, policies and laws. and one of those is we have to have the evidence. our greatest fear initially was, will we catch chi mak doing what we thought he was already doing? the thing that hit me hardest about this case was that we ve got a man who came here for better opportunity and, in fact, was a spy. sent by china to come here, pledge allegiance to the united states. he took an oath with a full intention of betraying it. he lived in this country for decades and was willing to put in danger members of our military. there was a lot of pressure on all of us.
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the store gave him free coffee and that s why he went every week. [ inaudible ]. sure. sure. time and time we d doubt. the investigation wasn t going well. i wasn t sure we were on the right track. from the beginning of the case, we saw no communication between chi mak and anyone in china. but you have to be patient for your opportunity. if we push any more, we might reveal ourselves to chi mak. so it s a waiting game. we re waiting for the next time he steals information and tries to send it to china. i believe jim was under a lot of pressure. you have to remember, we were using a lot of manpower. there were times when i thought, are we going to reach the end before someone pulls the plug? that the case wouldn t advance quickly enough, and we d lose our resources and support? that worried me. at that point i knew we needed to get a look inside his house. we had to develop the rest of the picture. after we started the trash and surveillance, we started writing
evidence we had because it showed he was still spying for china. finding the tasking notes in his trash allowed us to use more obtrusive investigate of tools. during this investigation, chi mak and his wife took three vacations which gave us opportunities to go into the home. the first opportunity, we went into the home and saw all the paperwork he had stacked up for work. the second opportunity we went in, we planted microphones in the house. the third time we went in is when we put cameras in the house as well. installing closed circuit television cameras was a challenge. you can imagine how well you you know your own room. to be able to go into that room and install something as invasive as the equipment needed to record closed circuit tv, it s difficult. you watch their daily life, what was going on at home. and how they dealt with each other as husband and wife was really unusual. we never saw an inkling of affection between them. there was no hand holding, pat
as an employee of power paragon. chi mak was a very good electrical engineer. he was the go-to guy in power paragon. chi mak had extraordinary access and was highly placed at work. he was trusted by the u.s. government experts. he worked with them side by side. chi mak worked on some of the most sensitive navy technologies. technologies that would take the navy into the next century. we know he gave the chinese government information regarding the virginia class submarine, which is our newest sub. and ddx information, which is our newest destroyer. most advanced destroyer in the world. but most important thing we were worried about leaving power paragon was quiet electric drive which is a technology to quieting the acoustic signatures of navy ships and especially nuclear submarines. a submarine is of no value if the adversary knows where it s at.