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FBI Director: China No. 1 Counter-Intelligence Threat to the US

Masood Farivar

   The FBI has more than 1,000 investigations of U.S. intellectual
   property theft in all 50 states with nearly all leading back to China,
   FBI Director Christopher Wray said, calling China the No. 1
   counter-intelligence threat to the United States.

   Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wray described the
   threat as "more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more
   comprehensive and more concerning than any counter-intelligence threat
   that I can think of."

   The Chinese threat ranges from cyber intrusions to corruption of
   insiders at U.S. companies small and large, Wray said, citing a series
   of recent Chinese economic espionage cases investigated by the FBI.
   U.S. academia, he added, remains particularly vulnerable to Chinese
   spying efforts to steal publicly-funded proprietary research .

   "It's an all tools approach by them," Wray said. "Therefore, it
   requires an all tools approach by us."