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本帖最后由 master 于 2015-5-11 20:57 编辑
美国《纽约时报》5月10日文章,原题:被控中国间谍,最终却不是
2014年10月20日,雪莉·陈(音)同往常一样走进位于俄亥俄州的国家气象局办公室,没有感到与平日有什么不同。这时,老板招呼她过去。
一进入老板办公室,后门便被打开,进来6名联邦调查局特工。他们指控出生在中国、现已成为美国公民的水文学家——陈通过窃取来的密码下载美国全国水坝信息,以及未如实说明与中国高级官员的会面。陈遭到逮捕,并被告知将面临25年监禁以及100万美元罚金。
陈的生活陷入一团混乱。她被停薪停职,在中国的家人也被迫筹钱为她聘请律师。朋友和同事都因为害怕不敢去探望。陈最近在接受采访时说:“我无法入睡,吃不下饭,每天以泪洗面。”5个月后,折磨突然结束。今年3月,就在她即将上庭前一周,检察官突然放弃了针对她的所有指控,并未作出任何解释。
2013年,美国司法部根据经济间谍法案提起的控诉相较一年前增加了30%多。尤其值得注意的是,自2013年起,经济间谍案的指控超过一半与中国有关系。
正是在这一背景下,检察官将目光对准了陈女士。前联邦检察官皮特·J·多伦说:“他们碰到了一名华裔,发现此人试图帮助中国政府的一点证据。但很明显,这其中也有‘红色恐慌’和种族主义的成分在内。”
对陈女士和她以前的同事的采访以及对法庭文件的查阅显示,检察官努力寻找间谍证据,但并未成功,只能提出程度更轻的指控,并最终放弃指控。
陈女士以前的同事托马斯·亚当斯说,陈的中国背景可能与此有关。“如果是美国人或欧洲人,他们可能就会说句‘下次别这样’了事。这就是政府为她身为联邦公务员的努力工作和奉献精神的‘感谢’。这是可耻的。”
(作者尼科尔·珀尔罗思,伊文译)
Sherry Chen, a hydrologist for the federal government in Ohio, was arrested last October and accused of economic espionage. Afterward, she said, “I did nothing but cry for days.”Credit Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
On Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, Sherry Chen drove, as usual, to her office at the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, where she forecast flood threats along the Ohio River. She was a bit jet-lagged, having returned a few days earlier from a visit to China. But as she headed to her desk, she says, she had no reason to think it was anything other than an ordinary day. Then her boss summoned her.
Once inside his office, a back door opened and in walked six agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The agents accused Mrs. Chen, a hydrologist born in China and now a naturalized American citizen, of using a stolen password to download information about the nation’s dams and of lying about meeting with a high-ranking Chinese official.
Mrs. Chen, 59, an adoptive Midwesterner who had received awards for her government service, was now suspected of being a Chinese spy. She was arrested and led in handcuffs past her co-workers to a federal courthouse 40 miles away in Dayton, where she was told she faced 25 years in prison and $1 million in fines.
Her life went into a tailspin. She was suspended without pay from her job, and her family in China had to scramble for money to pay for her legal defense. Friends and co-workers said they were afraid to visit. Television news trucks parked outside her house, waiting to spot a foreign spy hiding in plain sight in suburban Wilmington, population 12,500.
“I could not sleep,” Mrs. Chen said in a recent interview. “I could not eat. I did nothing but cry for days.”
Then, five months later, the ordeal abruptly ended. In March, just a week before she was scheduled to go on trial, prosecutors dropped all charges against Mrs. Chen without explanation. |
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