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Hey everybody, Maddie Sivaya here with NPR Senior Science

Correspondent Jeff Brumfield.

And we brought you here Jeff to talk about the U.S.

government's efforts to prevent China from stealing

American technology.

Yeah, and there's one case going on right now that's really

interesting.

It involves a guy named Charles Leber.

He's the chair of Harvard's chemistry department, one of the

world's leading researchers in the field of nanotechnology.

And now the target of a major government investigation.

Good morning.

This is Tate from a press conference by Federal officials in Boston,

announcing the arrest of Leber in late January.

One question.

Leber hid his involvement with the Chinese entities.

Prosecutors alleged that he took money from the Chinese

government without disclosing it properly to the American

government.

It appears that China paid Leber hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Leber was also receiving millions of dollars from U.S.

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