CHICOM FIGHTER WHICH ATTACKED U.S. RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT WAS EQUIPPED WITH AVIONICS "MADE IN THE USA"

CHICOM FIGHTER WHICH ATTACKED U.S. RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT WAS EQUIPPED WITH AVIONICS "MADE IN THE USA"

Jon Dougherty reports (WorldNetDaily.com, 4/11/01) that "American defense and aircraft firms won contracts in the late 1980s and 1990s to upgrade Chinese F-8II fighter jets of the type used to intercept an American EP-3E aircraft and force it to land at an airbase on China’s southern Hainan Island earlier this month.
"Northrup Grumman, a leading U.S. military aircraft maker, provided avionics upgrades for the F-8II – one of China’s first modern, indigenously-built fighters – under a ‘massive’ program that included guidance kits and weapons systems upgrades, as well."

GRUMMAN EXECS PUT THEIR FINANCIAL SECURITY BEFORE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY

"In 1995, The New American magazine reported that following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre of Chinese students by People’s Liberation Army troops, ‘Chinese military officers were allowed back into the U.S. to resume work with Grumman’s massive modernization of …China’s F-8II fighter planes.’
"Also, in October 1998, Al Santoli, editor of the American Foreign Policy Center’s China Reform Monitor and a national security adviser to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., wrote that China’s largest aerospace firm, the China Aero-Technology Import Export Company, ‘has been permitted to obtain avionics, guidance kits and weapons systems to upgrade the F-8 fighter-bomber, which was co-developed with U.S. aerospace manufacturers. …’ "

FOR $245 MILLION GRUMMAN SOLD ITS EXPERTISE TO CHICOM CRIMINALS

"And, the Federation of American Scientists, in an online analysis of the F-8 series aircraft, said, ‘Grumman signed a $245 million contract with China to substantially re-engineer the F-8 interceptor to the F-8II standard. …’ The FAS report also said that ‘several other Chinese aircraft incorporate Western systems, including the H-7 and Q-5 attack aircraft.’ …"

U.S. AIR BASE USED TO UPGRADE RED CHINA’S MILITARY DURING BUSH-CHENEY ONE

"According to Preservation of Aerospace Technology Projects, Inc., or PAT, a not-for-profit corporation providing research, technical and educational publications, the Chinese F-8II upgrade program was named ‘Peace Pearl,’ and was headed by one of the organization’s officials, retired Air Force Col. Will R. Stewart.
"Stewart was the test squadron commander for the program from April 1989 to April 1990. Information on PAT’s website said the program was held at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
"Stewart ‘directed test planning efforts of a major avionics upgrade to the People’s Republic of China’s F-8II interceptor aircraft,’ according to résumé information, and he was ‘responsible for [the] $13 million test budget.’ He oversaw ‘26 Air Force, 40 contractor and 40 Chinese workers on [the] largest foreign military sales program in existence with the Chinese.’ …"

McDONNELL-DOUGLAS AND BOEING ALSO HIRED OUT TO PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY

"Kenneth R. Timmerman, writing for the American Spectator magazine in 1995, said, ‘One of China’s biggest and best suppliers of advanced U.S. technology is McDonnell Douglas, America’s largest defense contractor and maker [in addition to its line of MD-80 and MD-90 civilian airliners] of the F-15, F-18 and C-17 military jets.’ McDonnell Douglas is now a subsidiary of The Boeing Corporation."

RED CHINA DOESN’T NEED ESPIONAGE — U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTORS GIVE THEM THE INFO THEY SEEK

" ‘According to U.S. government investigators probing a potential security breach, a team of Chinese procurement agents inspected the sprawling McDonnell Douglas C-17 plant in Columbus, Ohio, previously used by Rockwell to assemble the B-1 bomber, from September 11-19, 1993,’ Timmerman wrote.
" ‘The Chinese were allowed to photograph production lines inside the huge multi-story hangars and sought technical documentation on a wide variety of advanced production technology, much of it classified. The nine-day inspection by the Chinese was considered so sensitive that the company only allowed the inspectors in during the evenings and on the weekends, after the plant’s unionized workers had gone home,’ he said."

IS IT TREASON WHEN DISCLOSURES ARE AUTHORIZED BY U.S. GOVERNMENT?

" ‘Following their visit, the Chinese submitted an eight-page, single-spaced list of equipment they wanted to buy. It included 31 large, computerized machine-tools that the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider to be "militarily-critical" and that normally can only be exported to U.S. allies, if at all,’ he wrote.
" ‘The Commerce Department approved the licenses in August [1994], McDonnell Douglas confirmed. As promised by the Chinese, an agreement extending the MD-82 program was signed with CATIC [China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation] in November’ of that year, said Timmerman. …"

U.S. TECHNOLOGY PLACED IN CHICOM MISSILES

"Additionally, Timmerman said research indicated that U.S. specialty steel parts – used in aircraft and airframe manufacturing – sold to CATIC were ‘sent directly to a military aircraft plant in Xian, China.’ CATIC also bought and shipped U.S.-made global positioning satellite systems to China, leading U.S. defense analysts to conclude that Beijing was successfully integrating GPS into cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, ‘and a new generation of military jets – some of which are sent to Iran.’ "