China obtains US spy plane technology from Israel.

We can always rely upon Israel to provide us with a knife in our backs!
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China Purchased US Spy Plane Technology from Israel

By nostalgiphile in MLP
Tue Jun 13, 2006 at 03:03:22 AM EST
Tags: China, Israel, electronic warfare, spies (all tags)


A Chinese spy plane recently crashed near Nanjing "revealing details of a covert Chinese espionage effort to copy Israeli technology in an attempt to match the United States in any future air and sea battle," the Times Online is saying. 40 people were killed in the crash, 35 of them China's top electronic warfare experts. According to The Times report, it appears the spy technology the Chinese technicians were experimenting with was American-made, and they acquired it through Israel.



According to earlier reports about the June 6th crash, the People's Liberation Army Air Force was only testing an early warning AWACS jet, a KongJing-2000 (virtually identical to the Soviet Mainstay A-50). The Times article claims the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and a New York avionics company that supplies radars to the US Air Force's AWACS fleet were selling the material to China illegally.

Inside China, the ****-storm that has followed this incident is considerable--Guo Boxiong, Politburo member and the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party has been appointed head of the investigation. The Times suggests this is because the PRC could believe that the CIA intentionally sold faulty tech to the Chinese through Israel. This old, Cold War technique of selling the enemy faulty technology was used by the CIA during the 1980s, and is believed to have resulted in the disruption of the Soviet economy.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/6/11/3145/97664