Hi, everybody. Cheryl Akison here. I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Hello again, everybody. Cheryl Akison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, an interview that I suspect you might find somewhat disturbing

with a Chinese American scientist who the FBI wrongly accused of being a spy.

There are so many takeaways from the story you're going to hear about today.

In an overarching sense, it's yet another example of alleged FBI incompetence or corruption,

depending on how you view the case, amid a stack of such examples that I've covered over the years,

including on this podcast. When the FBI arrests somebody only to have charges dropped later, it still often

destroys lives. It requires people of modest means to pay sometimes hundreds of thousands

of dollars defending themselves, answering legal requests for information and so on.

It gets them fired from their jobs.

It can destroy family relationships.

It can cast doubt on the person for the rest of their life.

Well, such is the case with Zhao Jing Xi, a Chinese American scientist, now a professor

of physics at Temple University.

My report about what happened to him is the subject of this week's full measure cover story

that's on Sunday, February 5th. I hope you don't miss it.

For today's podcast, an extended interview with that scientist, Xi.

How did you first come to understand in what time period that you were being accused of being

a spy?

I, okay, the point of time, right?

So I was shocked when I opened the door when FBI agents came to my house and pounding on my door, and I did not know why. And so actually, I asked them why was I arrested and they would not tell me.

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