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A Department of Defense (DoD) official has been charged this week with conspiracy to communicate classified information to an agent of a foreign government. A criminal complaint unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia alleges that, from November 2004 to February 11 of 2008, James Wilbur Fondren, Jr., conspired with others to hand over information to The People’s Republic of China. According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Fondren retired from active duty as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force in May 1996. In 1998, he began providing consulting services from his Virginia home. Fondren’s sole client for his business was a friend by the name of Tai Shen Kuo. Kuo was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Taiwan who lived primarily in Louisiana and maintained business interests in the United States and China. Kuo also maintained an office in China. Unbeknownst to Fondren, Kuo worked under the direction of a Chinese government official. This official provided Kuo with detaile...

FROM REUTERS www.reuters.com/article/press...09+PRN20091019 WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Maryland scientist who once worked in varying capacities for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been arrested for attempted espionage, David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Channing D. Phillips, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director for the FBI's Washington Field Office, announced today. A criminal complaint unsealed today in the District of Columbia charges Stewart David Nozette, 52, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, with attempted espionage for knowingly and willfully attempting to communicate, deliver, and transmit classified information relating to the national defense of the United States to an individual that Nozette believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer. The complaint does not allege that the government of Isr...