Raytheon engineer arrested

Wei Sun, a 48-year-old engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems, left for an overseas trip last year, and told the firm he planned to take his company-issued laptop with him. The computer contained large amounts of classified data. Raytheon officials told it would be a violation of company policy, and federal law. Sun, a Chinese-born American citizen, had been working at Raytheon for a decade, held a secret clearance, and worked on sensitive missile programs used by the U.S. military. He didn’t listen to Raytheon’s warnings. When he returned to the U.S., the FBI arrested him. Court documents refer to Sun possessing classified files related to several different Raytheon air defense systems for the U.S. military. The case, which had not been reported until Feb. 1, is an example of China’s increasing efforts to acquire U.S. military technology. (Source: Quartz 02/01/20) https://qz.com/1795127/raytheon-engineer-arrested-for-taking-us-missile-defense-secrets-to-china/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo