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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A Chinese-born engineer accused of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China acknowledged Thursday that he copied classified documents from his employer, a defense contractor, and illegally kept copies in his office.
Chi Mak, 66, also acknowledged during cross-examination that he lied repeatedly to FBI agents during an hours-long interrogation immediately after his arrest and that he lied on his U.S. immigration form years ago. He said he didn't realize at the time that making the copies was illegal.
Authorities believe Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen, took thousands of pages of documents from his employer, Power Paragon of Anaheim, and gave them to his brother, who passed them along to Chinese authorities for years.
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