China's Houston consulate was hotspot for spying, say U.S. officials
The FBI was focused in part on Keping Xie, a gastroenterology professor at the medical facility and a member of the Chinese government science recruiting program called Thousand Talents, which has been linked to espionage efforts in the U.S., according to court filings and multiple U.S. officials briefed on the matter.
In April 2019, three of five scientists whom federal authorities identified as having been involved in efforts to steal U.S. research on behalf of China were also ousted by at MD Anderson. A fourth scientist resigned before the investigation ended, and the fifth was disciplined by the center. An NBC News review of heavily redacted MD Anderson investigation reports shows that they include detailed payment information from Chinese universities and diagrams documenting how the Thousand Talents program participates in a quid-pro-quo scheme that compensates doctors for intellectual property.
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