Noshir gowadia biography for kids
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US spy for China Noshir Gowadia jailed for 32 years
A US engineer who sold military secrets to China has been sentenced to 32 years in prison.
Indian-born Noshir Gowadia, 66, had helped to design the propulsion struktur for the B-2 bomber.
A court in Hawaii found him skyldig in August of passing on information which helped China to design a stealth cruise missile.
Prosecutors had hoped for a life sentence but said 32 years was "in many ways appropriate".
Gowadia was accused of travelling to China between 2003 and 2005 while designing the missile.
He was said to have been paid $110,000 (£69,000) - money that was used to pay off a mortgage on a luxury home on the island of Maui.
His defence had argued that he only provided information which was unclassified and freely available.
But Chief US District Judge Susan Oki Mollway said Gowadia "broke his oath of loyalty" to the US.
"He was found guilty of marknadsföring valuable technology to foreign countries
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US engineer sold military secrets to China
According to prosecutors, Gowadia helped China to design a stealth cruise missile.
It involved an exhaust nozzle that would evade infrared radar detection and US heat-seeking missiles.
Gowadia was accused of travelling to China between 2003 and 2005 while formgivning the missile.
He was said to have been paid $110,000 (£69,000) - money that was used to pay off a mortgage on a luxury home on the island of Maui.
In his defence, lawyers said it was true that Mr Gowadia had designed an exhaust nozzle for China - but that it was "basic stuff" based on unclassified information that was publicly available.
Gowadia, who was born in India, moved to the US in the 1960s and became a citizen about a decade later.
He has been in custody for nearly four years and faces life in prison when he is sentenced in November.
He was found not guilty on three counts of communicating national defence information to help a foreign nation.
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This Brilliant Engineer Helped Build the B-2 Bomber—Then Sold America's Stealth Secrets to China
High winds blew over an oceanside bluff on the afternoon of October 13, 2005, as a caravan of government vehicles with agents from the FBI and Air Force descended on a stately home overlooking Uaoa Bay on Maui’s North Shore. Fifteen agents divided into two teams wearing standard raid gear—khaki pants, body armor, holstered sidearms—took positions at the sides of the house while another group approached the front door.
Special Agent James Tamura-Wageman, the search team leader, knocked. He watched through a window as a woman with a dog approached. Tamura-Wageman, from the agency’s Honolulu office, was part of a foreign counterintelligence squad. For over a year, the team had been monitoring the property—a luxury Mediterranean-style four-bedroom with a blue tiled roof and ocean and cliff views in the hamlet of Haiku, worth some $3.5 million. Tamura-Wageman himself had taken trips