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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
discovered that, in fact, they were discussing copying discs and giving them to his brother, how they were going to take these discs back to china. based on information we had, we believe the quiet electric drive, the very sensitive navy submarine data is on that disc. tai mak then took that disc home and gave it to billy, his son, who was in charge of the ibm thinkpad laptop which had the encryption program on it. tai mak wasn t so good at doing the encryption on his own. we don t believe billy was originally part of the plan but tai mak asked his son to help encrypt the information his uncle chi mak had given him. we found out fuk li made some calls and then called her husband and said we re going to china. the very next day, tai mak called the handler pupei leung in china.
a quiet electric drive would have given the chinese a fingerprint for that sub s movement throughout the ocean. that allowed them to track it and eventually destroy it. if a foreign power knows the acoustic signature of a submarine, then they can kill that submarine. quiet electric drive was at risk. that may have already gone to china or may soon go to china. so that s why there s a much greater fear in failing to catch chi mak. in 2004, the chinese didn t have a strong navy capability. they were really a brown water navy. a navy stable to operate in shallow water. chi mak chose the chinese efforts to be able to expand their capabilities into blue water.
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