He Gave the Senate Written Testimony on China’s Talent Programs

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Official 2017 portrait of Sen. Chuck Grassley

Chuck Grassley, 2017. U.S. Senate Photographic Studio. U.S. government work.

“China’s talent recruitment plans, such as the Thousand Talents Program, offer competitive salaries, state-of-the-art research facilities, and honorific titles, luring both Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts alike to bring their knowledge and experience to China, even if that means stealing proprietary information or violating export controls to do so.” E.W. Priestap, written statement, Senate Judiciary Committee, dated December 5, 2018 (file titled 12-12-18 Priestap Testimony)

This is his written statement as Assistant Director, Counterintelligence Division, for a Senate Judiciary hearing on “China’s Non-Traditional Espionage Against the United States.” The statement as posted is dated December 5, 2018. The Senate file name uses December 12, 2018. Grassley’s office has cited the same PDF.

He described the Chinese Communist Party’s control of the Chinese system, economic-strength competition, and talent-recruitment plans as a counterintelligence problem. Those are his sentences on a .senate.gov PDF. They are not a finding about Crossfire Hurricane. They are not a conviction of any named scientist.

Sources

E.W. Priestap. Written statement before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. December 5, 2018. judiciary.senate.gov (PDF)

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

He could write a clear threat briefing on China. The same office opened a campaign case on a thin foreign tip. Readers can hold both facts at once.