The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to hold more hearings on the threat, with an eye toward updating the current counterintelligence law, which dates to 2002.
In addition to traditional espionage, rival powers are exploiting “non-traditional human, cyber, advanced technical, and open-source intelligence operations to collect against U.S. plans and policies, sensitive technology, personally identifiable information, and intellectual property” to influence U.S. decision-making and public opinion, the Senate investigation found.
But the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, or NCSC, which is part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, “lacks a clear mission as well as sufficient and well-developed authorities and resources to effectively confront this landscape,” the report said.
Call for counterintelligence overhaul
Without an overhaul of counterintelligence efforts that include protecting academia from foreign espionage efforts, the U.S. may find itself buying Chinese goods made with stolen American know-how, said William Evanina, the CEO of the Evanina Group and a former director of the NCSC. Although Russia, Iran and North Korea also are looking for ways to steal U.S. technologies, China is the most aggressive, he said.
“Ten years from now, Congress cannot be holding hearings and asking how China stole all our organic ideas and capabilities and are selling them back to us,” Evanina told the Senate panel. “We have been victimized in this game already and must learn from the game.
After funding tech research, lawmakers look at risk of theft - Roll Call
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