Former NASA contractor employee Bo Jiang, arrested last March by federal agents as he was about to board a flight to Beijing, took vast amounts of sensitive research by a noted colleague to China in 2012, The Washington Examiner has learned.

Dr. Zia-ur Rahman was a career scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia assigned to the agency’s sensors and electromagnetics branch, which works with the Department of Defense on military aviation technologies.

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