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Football: McCarthy link to Korea ... Four people have been arrested in the United States for allegedly passing secret defence information to China.
A 72-year-old former Boeing engineer is accused of giving China details about the space shuttle and other aerospace programmes.
In a separate case, three people are accused of turning over defence department documents.
A FBI spokesman said the arrests showed it was committed to protecting US assets "from foreign thievery".
Chinese-born Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 72, of California, faces charges including eight counts of economic espionage, conspiracy, and making false statements to FBI investigators.
Mr Chung, a naturalised US citizen, worked at Rockwell International and Boeing on the space shuttle programme.
He retired in 2002 but was working for Boeing as a contractor until 2006.
The US justice department says the charges claim he took Boeing trade secrets relating to the space shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV rocket for the benefit of China.
(BBC)
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