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He was kind of awkward.

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He was very goofy.

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He does not read like a Chinese spy.

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I at least had in my head this idea of a spy

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of James Bond.

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Somebody jumping out of airplanes and that is not Ji.

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This story is about aviation secrets,

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in particular, jet engine trade secrets.

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These are technologies that China wants very badly.

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It was in the paper every day.

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What China is alleged to be stealing en masse

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from the United States.

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The playbook is simple.

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Rob, replicate and replace.

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We cannot tolerate a nation

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that steals the fruits of our brainpower.

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Ji was almost like a pack rat when it came

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to electronic information.

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You have text messages, you have videos, you have photos,

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you have so much digital evidence about what he was doing.

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What type of real spy is going to take a photo

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of a top secret blood oath?

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No one. Mr. Bean would do that. He was almost like a kid.

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I think it was clear Ji was a stand-in for some

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of the bigger conflicts that were going on

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between China and the United States.

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His goal was to get US citizenship.

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To become an intelligence officer.

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Ji was on that path.

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When I met Ji, I just thought he was this cute,

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quirky guy.

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He felt like an extrovert to me

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because he just, I don't know, was so goofy

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and would talk to anyone.

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He really did have a pureness to him.

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He just, you know, seemed like he just wanted to do good.

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To have such a happy-go-lucky personality takes

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so much energy,

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it feels like it would be authentic.

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But who's to say?

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I've covered China for a long time

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and Ji Chaoqun in many ways is kind

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of the prototypical college kid for most of this story.

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He goes to a very prestigious university,

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the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,

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and he studied aviation engineering.

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This is a very important topic for the Chinese government.

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Jet engines are one of the hardest

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to replicate technologies.

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These were developed primarily during World War II

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and for many decades the US and Europe have held a monopoly.

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China has expended a lot of effort

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and energy on stealing those technologies.

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Or trying to.

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Ji is at a job fair about six months

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before he is set to graduate with his engineering degree

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and he sees this kind of mysteriously labeled booth

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where there's a person who's purporting

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to be a professor recruiting for what he only describes

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as a confidential unit.

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It doesn't take long for Ji to realize

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that he's being recruited

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for the Ministry of State Security,

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China's premier intelligence agency.

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MSS stands for the Ministry of State Security

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and it's basically China's main intelligence agency.

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Think of a combination between the CIA and the FBI.

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The MSS doesn't really see a distinction between spying

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for the government and spying for Chinese companies

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and getting the kind of secrets they would be interested in

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in their attempt to catch up and surpass their competitors.

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The vast majority of the actual MSS officers stay in China

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and never leave China, and so there's zero risk to them.

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Ji is unusual in that he is someone who is recruited in China

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and sent overseas really as an MSS agent.

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There are two reasons the MSS was interested in Ji.

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One, he had technical knowledge

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that could help them identify trade secrets to steal

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and the other was that he had a visa to travel

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to the US and he was clean.

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So in that sense, he's the perfect person to recruit

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to go spy in the US.

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They are really laying it on thick

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that this would be a really cool kind of sexy,

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interesting opportunity.

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They're taking him out to dinners.

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They really wine and dine him.

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It was also something that appealed to his sense

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of helping his country.

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He was into like the military.

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