Noshir Gowadia
Gowadia immigrated to the United States and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He joined Northrop in November 1968 and continued to work there until April 1986. As a design engineer and was instrumental in developing the propulsion system used in the then secret B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
Gowadia was an entrepreneur and was working to develop his own business. Greed drove him to transmit classified information to at least eight different and unauthorized countries in an attempt to establish the technological credibility with the potential customers for future business.
He was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Gowadia is currently incarcerated in the ADX Florence, with a release date of September 11, 2033.
Chi Mak
Chi Mak is a Chinese-born naturalized American citizen who worked as an engineer for California-based defense contractor Power Paragon, a part of L-3 Communications.
A Sleeper Agent
Chi Mak acknowledged that he had been placed in the United States more than 20 years earlier, to burrow into the defense-industrial establishment to steal secrets,” Joel Brenner, the head of counterintelligence for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said in an interview. “It speaks of deep patience,” he said and is part of a pattern.
In 2007, Mak was found guilty of conspiring to export sensitive defense technology to China. On March 24, 2008, he was sentenced to 24 years and four months in federal prison.
