Man stole military tech from Southern California company to benefit China

A Bay Area man has admitted to stealing missile-detecting technology for the benefit of China.

San Jose resident Chenguang Gong, 59, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of trade secrets, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.

Gong, a former engineer who is a dual citizen of the United States and China, “transferred more than 3,600 files from a Los Angeles-area research and development company” during his “brief tenure” with the company last year, the release explained…

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