FBI arrests NASA contractor employee trying to flee to China

March 18, 2013 | 4:13 pm

Richard Pollock

Watchdog Team

The Washington Examiner

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA, announced today that Bo Jiang, a Chinese national working for a NASA Contractor at its Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA., was arrested Sunday before boarding a flight to China with a one-way ticket. (AP Photo)

Bo Jiang, the Chinese national scientist employed by a NASA contractor for work at the space agency's Langley Research Center, was arrested Sunday by the FBI at Dulles International Airport as he tried to flee to China, according to Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA.

Wolf said during a Capitol Hill news conference today that Jiang’s work at the NASA facility had given him access to information that “would be of the greatest interest to foreign spies, including China.”
Wolf is chairman of a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee that has budget oversight authority for NASA.

He made Jiang's name public for the first time last week during a subcommittee hearing where he also charged that Jiang had taken “voluminous sensitive” NASA documents back to China on a trip in 2012.
Jiang was employed by the National Institute of Aerospace, a Hampton, VA-based NASA contractor. The position afforded Jiang virtually unlimited, unescorted access to the NASA Langley facility, which is the location for classified research programs related to U.S. space defense technologies.

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