[Post edited because of the nature of the content and because I have to be careful when blogging about work]

We have members of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) — which is in charge of U.S. arms sales to foreign nations — in our office periodically for one reason or another.

I read today that a weapons system policy analyst for the DSCA was arrested for espionage:

Senior U.S. officials said the two separate spy cases highlight the national security threat posed by Beijing’s aggressive intelligence gathering of secrets and technology.

The arrests were carried out in Virginia, Louisiana and Southern California, and the secrets compromised include military communications technology, arms sales and corporate trade secrets related to the space shuttle, according to court papers.

Gregg William Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, worked for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in Arlington and was arrested at his home on charges of selling secrets to foreign agents.

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One Pentagon official said the case is potentially very damaging because Mr. Bergersen was director of the Navy’s command, control, communications and intelligence office in the early 2000s. The office has access to the most sensitive information on U.S. warfighting capabilities, a key target of China’s military spies.

Our company specializes in designing and manufacturing tactical command and control systems, subsystems, and products for defense and homeland security applications worldwide…so this his pretty close to home.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | Trackback |