Arrested as part of #China Wuhan spy ring: Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. #Harvard #HarvardHealth #spy
Harvard Professor Lieber got more than $15,000,000 in grants from @NIH and @DeptofDefense. In 2011 he secretly became a "Strategic Scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology in China, with large payments, @TheJusticeDept says.
@NIH @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept Also charged today: PLA Lieutenant Yanqing Ye, 29, a Boston University Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering student allegedly spying for China.
@NIH @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept Another arrested and charged: Zaosong Zheng, a Chinese researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who allegedly "stole 21 vials of biological research and attempted to smuggle them out of the United States aboard a flight destined for China."
@NIH @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept .@TheJusticeDept says, "These cases are part of the Department of Justice’s China Initiative, which reflects the strategic priority of countering Chinese national security threats and reinforces the President’s overall national security strategy." #ChinaInitiative
@NIH @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept Hats off to the interagency team that busted this Chinese biological spy ring in Boston: Asst AG for National Security John C. Demers, US Attorney Andrew Lelling, @FBI Special Agent in Charge Joseph Bonavolonta, & @USCIS, @DeptofDefense, @HHSGov, @CommerceGov, and more.
@NIH @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept @FBI @USCIS @HHSGov @CommerceGov .@TheJusticeDept documents concerning arrest of top Harvard professor working for #Wuhan bio center in China, and of PLA and other ChiCom bio-spies in Boston. justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
@NIH @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept @FBI @USCIS @HHSGov @CommerceGov Harvard professor was secretly part of Communist China's "Thousand Talents" program at #Wuhan to transfer American high technology to the CCP. Professor Charles Lieber, a nanoscientist, is Chairman of @Harvard's Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology. justice.gov/opa/press-rele… 
