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FBI is looking for a star Chinese Ohio State professor with NASA ties who disappeared
Topic Started: Sep 9 2015, 03:20 PM (195 Views)
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FBI is looking for a star Chinese Ohio State professor with NASA ties who disappeared

A world-renowned Ohio State University (OSU) professor who had access to restricted defense information as part of his work with NASA is under investigation by the FBI for failing to disclose his ongoing connections to Chinese scientists, The Columbus Dispatch has reported.

Professor Rongxing Li, 56, unexpectedly resigned from his position in the OSU Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering in February 2014.

Li told OSU that he was going back to China to take care of his sick mother, and no one has heard from him since.

A month before resigning, Li submitted a proposal to work with NASA on its Mars 2020 project, which gave Li access to Department of Defense information that he was prohibited from sharing with China.

A month after he resigned, homeland security agents searched Li's wife, Jue Tian, before she boarded a plane to China and found thumb drives containing restricted defense information. Neither she nor her husband have been charged.

Li's research interests include "planetary exploration, digital mapping, spatial data structures, coastal and marine GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing," according to his biography on the Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing project website. He had worked with NASA previously on missions such as the Mars Exploration Rover and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

In his Mars 2020 NASA proposal, according to federal search documents reviewed by The Dispatch, Li claimed that he had no ties to China. However, OSU knew he had spent 2012 on sabbatical at Tongji University in Shanghai and subsequently launched an internal investigation into why Li had not notified NASA of his ties to China.

The university reportedly discovered that Li not only had ongoing connections with Tongji, but had also allegedly collaborated on Chinese-government programs aimed at developing advanced technologies.

Li reportedly had access to International Traffic in Arms Regulations information with NASA and with Raytheon, a defense contractor. Concerned that he might have provided China with this restricted information, OSU officials notified the FBI, which is now investigating the circumstances surrounding Li's abrupt resignation and mysterious disappearance.

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The solution would seem rather simple to me. STOP employing these people with even the most remote ties to foreign governments we don't trust absolutely and without question.
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That's one of the ugliest gooks we ever saw and if he was part of the tax-slaver ripoff $cam known as NASA, then good riddance!
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Mrs Patrick Campbell
Sep 10 2015, 02:09 PM
That's one of the ugliest gooks we ever saw and if he was part of the tax-slaver ripoff $cam known as NASA, then good riddance!
What sort of Asian men do you find hot besides Desi/Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi men?
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Tybee
Sep 9 2015, 03:30 PM
The solution would seem rather simple to me. STOP employing these people with even the most remote ties to foreign governments we don't trust absolutely and without question.
Well, that would certainly be the common sense approach but our government and society has seemed to back away from common sense solutions.

Where's wifey now? Can we hold lotus flower for espionage until husbear makes his grand appearance?
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An even better solutia is to stop forcing tax-slavers to finance private commercial ventures(= goodbye NASA and a million other $cams)
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