#CHINESE ESPIONAGE SCANDAL SOFTWARE#

The Dutch company welcomed a Sino-European agreement earlier this week, which promised that Beijing would no longer force foreign companies to share sensitive know-how when operating in China. But the move to unmask the espionage operation marked an escalation by the justice department after it.

Some of the individuals (involved) happened to be Chinese nationals,” he added. Two Chinese intelligence officers tried to bribe a US law enforcement official as part. “We resent any suggestion that this event should have any implication for ASML conducting business in China. “The suggestion that we were somehow victim of a national conspiracy is wrong,” CEO Peter Wennink said in a statement. He created computerized simulations of nuclear explosions for. It said it had since taken action to make such theft much more difficult.įollowing publication of a story in Dutch daily newspaper Financieele Dagblad (FD) that said ASML had been struck by Chinese espionage, the company took issue with that label. Wen Ho Lee or Li Wenho ( Chinese: pinyin: L Wnh born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist and a mechanical engineer who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

#CHINESE ESPIONAGE SCANDAL SOFTWARE#

REUTERS/Eva PlevierĪSML said the perpetrators took “large files” on memory sticks from its Silicon Valley software subsidiary that develops software for machine optimization. He was smeared as a bigot and a mentally unstable alarmist.

After the scandal broke, Trulock found himself the targeted by the Clintonites who resented him for speaking out. But it is also a daunting story about the fate of the man who brought the bad news. ASML Holding logo is seen at company's headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Januari 23, 2019. 'Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT' takes us directly into the murky world of nuclear espionage.

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