Targets of Economic Espionage

Targets of Economic Espionage

Cases of economic espionage in the United States from 1995-present, detailing either the location of the company that was the target of economic theft or the location of the base of operations for illegal export cases.

Domestic economic espionage includes cases where information was sought for personal interest or to benefit competitors within the U.S. Foreign economic espionage include cases where information was sought to benefit either a foreign country or foreign competitor.

Blue: Domestic
Red: China
Green: Iran
Yellow: Taiwan 
Purple: All other countries (refer to description)

This map was created by the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Centre), using data from the SPYPEDIA database. Please visit www.cicentre.com for further information.

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	Acuson Corporation TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Junsheng Wang
	Aircraft and Aircraft Parts ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Hamid Asefi Ring Length of Spying: At least August 2007 - June 2012
	AMAC International ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Quan-Sheng Shu Length of Spying: January 2003 - 24 September 2008
	Amcor TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Charles McHugh Length of Spying: 2009
	AMSC Windtec Gmbh TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Sinovel Trade Secrets Ring Length of Spying: At least March 2011 - 2013
	Arc Electronics Inc ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Arc Electronics Inc. Length of Spying: At least October 2008 - 02 October 2012 (Began exporting to Russia in 2002) Country: Russia
	Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc (Air Force Contract) ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Daniel Max Sherman and J. Reece Roth Length of Spying: January 2004 - May 2006
	Avery Dennison Corporation (Concord, Ohio) ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Ten Hong Lee; Pin Yen Yang, and Hewi Chen Yang Length of Spying: July 1989-1997
	Bakersfield Military Contractor ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASES: Ibrahim A. Omer, Amen Ahmed Ali, and Mohamed Al-Rahimi Length of Spying: 1987 - September 2007 Country: Yemen
	Black Hawk Helicopter Engines/Night Vision Equipment (South Korean Arms Dealer) ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Kwonhan Park Length of Spying: 2001 - 2004
	Bristol Myers Squibb ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Shalin Jhaveri Length of Spying: December 2009 - February 2010 Country: India
	Brookwood Company Inc TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: John Berenson Morris Length of Spying: July 2002 - August 2002
	BSST Software Group ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Subrahmanyam Kota and Aluru J. Prasad Length of Spying: 1985 - 1994 Country: Russia (KGB)
	C&D Semiconductor Services Inc. ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Thanh Tran and Trieu Lam Length of Spying: March 1999 - 2002
	Cambridge Silicon Radio ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Zhiqiang Zhang, Yanmin Li, and Xiaodong Liang Length of Spying: At least 2007 - August 2009
	Carbon Fiber Composites for Military Aircraft ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Ming Suan Zhang
	Carbon Fiber ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Hamid Hashemi Ring Length of Spying: August 2006 - December 2012 Country: China and Iran
	Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Jianyu Huang Length of Spying: Unknown - April 2012
	Chitron Electronics Inc ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Bo 'Eric' Li, Zhen Zhou 'Alex' Wu, and Yufeng 'Annie' Wei Length of Spying: 1997 - 2007
	Cisco Systems TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Peter Morch Length of Spying: September 2000 - October 2000
	Citadel Investments Group TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Yihao "Ben" Pu Length of Spying: August 2011 - September 2011
	Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Hiroaki Serizawa and Takashi Okamoto Length of Spying: January 1997 - 26 July 1999 Country: Japan
	CME Group TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Chunlai Yang Length of Spying: May 2011 - July 2011
	Coca Cola Headquarters TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASES: Ibrahim Dimson, Joya Williams, and Edmund Duhaney Length of Spying: May 2006 - July 2006
	Corning Glass Making Plant ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Yeong Lin and Jonathan Sanders Length of Spying 1999 - December 2001
	Delfin Group USA ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Markos Baghdasarian Length of Spying: 13 June 2010 - 12 October 2011
	DirecTV TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Igor Serebryany Length of Spying: September 2002
	Dow AgroSciences LLC ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Kexue Huang
	Dow Chemical Company ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: David W. Liou Length of Spying: 1995 - 2003
	DuPont TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Walter Liew (Former DuPont employee) Length of Spying: 2011
	DuPont TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Kolon Industries Inc. Length of Spying: July 2002 - February 2009 Country: South Korea/Kolon Industries Inc.
	DuPont ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Michael David Mitchell  Length of Spying: 2006-2007 Country: South Korea/Kolon Industries Inc. TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Kolon Industries Inc. Length of Spying: July 2002...
	DuPont Circleville Research Laboratory ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Gary Min Length of Spying: May 2005 - December 2005
	DuPont Pioneer and Mosanto TRADE SECRETS CASE: Inbred Seed Theft Length of Spying: At least May 2011 - October 2012
	Eastern Kodak Company TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Harold Worden Length of Targeting Trade Secrets: 1987-1992
	Fabricated Metal Products Inc. ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Nicholas Dadonna Length of Spying: 2001
	FLIR Systems ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASES: Tah Wei Chao and Zhi Yong Guo Length of Spying: August 2007 - 05 April 2008
	Ford Motor Company ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Xiang Dong Yu Length of Spying: At least July 2005 - 02 January 2007
	Former British Shipping Company Owner ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Christopher Harold Tappin Length of Spying: At least April 2006 - February 2007
	Frontier Scientific Inc TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Prabhu Mohapatra Length of Spying: At least October 2011 - 14 November 2011 Country: India
	General Motors Company ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Shannon Du and Yu Qin Length of Spying: 09 December 2003 - 23 May 2006
	Goldman Sachs Group Inc ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Sergey Aleynikov Length of Spying: 01 June 2009 - 02 July 2009
	Horizon St. Limited ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Patrick Cambell Length of Spying: At least May 2012 - 21 August 2013
	IBM Corporation ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Atul Malhotra Length Spying: 2006
	ICM Components Inc ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: David Levick Length of Spying: At least March 2007 - 15 March 2009
	Intel Corporation TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Say Lye Ow Length of Spying: July 1998
	Intel Corporation ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Biswamohan Pani Length of Spying: February 2008 - July 2008
	Iran's Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Milad Jafari Length of Spying: February 2004 - August 2007
	Iranian Arms Trader ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Amir Hossein Ardebili Length of Spying: At least 2004 - 02 October 2007
	Jasmine Networks, San Jose (Now Defunct) TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Patrick J. Murphy Length of Spying: December 1998 - September 2001
	Jungdaa International Pte. Ltd. ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Laura Wang-Woodford and Brian D. Woodford Length of Spying: January 1998 - December 2007
	L-3 Power Paragon Inc ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Chi Mak, Rebecca Lai-wah Chiu Mak, Tai Mak, Heung Li Mak Fuk, and Yui 'Billy' Mak, Length of Spying: At least 1996 - 28 October 2005
	Lancaster Resident Targeting Military Aircraft Products ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Baktash Fattahi Spying: 2009
	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Peter Hoong-Yee Lee Length of Spying: 1980 - 1984; 1991 -1997
	Lightwave Microsystems (later purchased by NeoPhontonics) TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Brent Alan Woodward Length of Spying: Late 2002
	L-3 Space & Navigation TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Sixing Liu
	Landstar Tech Company Ltd. TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Yi Lan Chen Length of Spying: Early 2007 - Febuary 2010
	Lattice Semiconductor Corporation ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Yuan Export Ring Length of Spying: At least April 2010 - August 2011
	LIMMT Economic and Trade Company Ltd. ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Fang Wei Li Indicted: 2009
	Lockheed Martin Corporation TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Ko-Suen Moo Length of Spying: At least February 2004 - November 2005
	Lockheed Martin ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Kenneth Branch and William Erskine Length of Spying: 1997 - 1999
	Los Alamos National Lab (Department of Energy) ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Wen Ho Lee Lengh of Spying: 1980s; arrested 1999
	Los Alamos National Laboratory ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Peter Hoong-Yee Lee Length of Spying:1984 - 1991
	Lubrizol Corporation ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Kyung Kim Spying Dates: 2001-2008 Country: South Korea
	Lucent Technologies TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASES: Hai Lin, Kai Xu, and Yong-Qing Cheng Length of Spying: July 2000 - 2001
	Machine Parts and Industrial Chemicals ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Mark Henry Length of Spying: At least April 2009 - September 2012 Country: China and Taiwan
	Marvell Semiconductor Inc. TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Suibin Zhang Length of Spying: March 2005 - June 2005
	Mastercard International ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Fausto Estrada Spying Dates: 2001
	Medical College Wisconsin TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Hua Jun Zhao Length of Spying: Unknown - 30 March 2013
	Metaldyne Corporation ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Michael Haehnel, Anne Lockwood, and Fuping Liu Length of Spying: February 2004 - September 2004
	MicroPilot TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASES: Harold Hanson and Yaming Nina Qi Hanson Length of Spying: August 2008 - February 2009
	Microsoft (Meriden, CT) TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: William Genovese Date Arrested: 2004
	Military Antennas ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Amin Ravan Length of Spying: At least 2006 - 10 October 2012
	Military Sensitive Parts ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Reza Olangian Length of Spying: At least 2007 - 10 October 2012
	Military Sensitive Parts ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Alex Tsai Weapons Ring Length of Spying: At least 2005 - 01 May 2013 Country: North Korea
	Military Sensitive Parts TECHNOLOGY DIVERSION CASE: Hannah Robert Ring Length of Spying: At least October 2011 - October 2013 Country: India
	Military Sensitive Parts ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Susan Yip Length of Spying: At least 09 October 2007 - 15 June 2011
	MKS Instruments Inc. ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Sihai Cheng and Seyed Abolfazl Shahab Jamili Length of Spying: November 2005 - 2012
	MKS Instruments Shanghai Ltd; subsidiary of MKS Instruments Inc ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Qiang Hu Length of Spying: At least March 2007 - 18 May 2012
	Miteq Components Inc ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Fu-Tain Lu Length of Spying: At least 01 March 2004 - April 2009
	Monalila LTD Co. ILLEGAL EXPORT CASES: Zongcheng YI and Parviz KHAKI Length of Spying: At least October 2008 - January 2011
	Motorola ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Hanjuan Jin Length of Spying: June 2006 - March 2008
	NEC Electronics TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Fei Ye and Ming Zhong
	Netherlands Freight Forwarding Company (based in Rotterdam) ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Ulrich Davis Length of Spying: At least May 2007 - January 2008
	NetLogic Microsystems ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge Arrested: 2006
	New York University School of Medicine TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: MRI Technology Ring Length  of Spying: 2008 - 08 May 2013
	Niku Corporation ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: John J. O'Neil, Robert McKimmey, and William McMenamin Length of Spying: October 2001 - July 2002
	Northrop Corporation ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia Length of Spying: At least December 1999 - 13 October 2005
	Online Interpreters (Chicago) TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Tse Thow Sun Length of Spying: March 2002
	Online Micro LLC ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Massoud Habibion and Mohsen Motamedian Length of Spying; At least 2010 - 07 April 2011
	Orion Aviation ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASES: Traian Bujduveanu and Hassan Saied Keshari Length of Spying: August 2006 - June 2008
	Pittsburgh Corning Corporation TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Ji Li Huang and Xiao Guang Qi
	PLA Unit 61398 ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Chinese Cyberespionage Campaign Length of Spying: At least 2006 - April 2014 (although it is likely that PLA Unit 61398 continues to target U.S. companies and interests)
	Prime Technology Corporation ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Ping Cheng Length of Spying: 2008
	Quantum3D Inc ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Xiaodong Sheldon Meng Length of Spying: At least 19 June 2000 - 15 January 2004
	Rockwell International; Boeing Huntington Beach ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE: Dongfan Chung Length of Spying: 1979 - 2006
	Rolls-Royce Corporation TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Hossein Ali Khoshnevisrad Length of Spying: January 2007 - December 2007
	RP Scherer TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASES: Michael Steven Snyder and Jolene H. Rector Length of Spying: August 1999
	Sanofi-Aventis ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE: Yuan Li Length of Spying: At least January 2010 - June 2011
	Semi Supply Inc ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Mikahel K. Chang Length of Spying: 1997
	Sensitive Military Documents ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Mozaffar Khazaee Length of Spying: Unknown - 09 January 2014
	Societe Generale ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Samarth Agrawal Length of Spying: July 2009 - November 2009
	Sun Microsystems Inc TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Fei Ye and Ming Zhong Arrested: 2001
	Sunrise Technologies and Trading Company (based in Queens) ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE: Jeng "Jay" Shih Length of Spying: At least 2010 - April 2011
	Spencer Reed Group Inc. ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Jeffrey W. Dorn Length of Spying: 23 January 2001 - 31 January 2001
	Stolen U.S. Military Firearm Lasers TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Kwok Kuen Leung Length of Targeting Technology: 2005 - 2009 Motivation: Personal Gain
	Taiwanese Drug Dealers ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASES: Sheng-shen Hui and Huan Ling-chang Spying Dates: At least 2010 - 2012
	Taiwanese Weapons Smugglers (Queens) ECONOMIC ESPOINAGE CASES: Yen Ching Peng and Peter Liu Length of Spying: December 2007
	Trident Microsystems TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Fei Ye and Ming Zhong Arrested: 2001
	University of Kansas Medical Center ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASES: Hiroaki Serizawa and Takashi Okamoto January 1997 - 26 July 1999 Country: Japan
	USA Performance Technology Inc TARGETING TRADE SECRETS CASE: Walter Liew (Former DuPont employee) Length of Spying: 2011
	Valspar Corporation ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: David Yen Lee Length of Spying: November 2008 - March 2009
	Ventria Bioscience TRADE SECRETS CASE: Ventria Bioscience Trade Secrets Theft Length of Spying: At least May 2011 - 12 December 2013
	Volterra Semiconductor Inc TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: Shin-Guo Tsai Length of Spying: 2004 - 2005 (at least six months)
	Wendt Corporation TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASE: William Garrison Length of Spying: April 2002
	White Drive Products Inc. TRADE SECRETS CASE: White Drive Products Inc. Trade Secrets Ring Length of Spying: 30 November 2007 - 22 November 2008
	Wright Industries Inc (Sub-Contactor of Gillette) ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE CASE: Steven Louis Davis Length of Spying: February 1997-March 1997
	Wyko Tire Technology Inc TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CASES: Clark Allan Roberts and Sean Edward Howley Length of Spying: 30 May 2007 - 31 May 200