I'm John Duchy with Brennan Weichert, his new book is BioHacked China's race to control life.

The Thousand Talent Program, China's Field of Dreams, attracting the best talent in order to catch up and pass and defeat our rivals in the West.

The man's name is Charles Leiber, born in

1959 in Philadelphia. He's the chair of the Harvard

chemistry department. He's world famous for working on

nanoscience and nanotechnology.

And it is revealed over these last years

that Charles Leiber was approached and corrupted

by elements of the People's Republic of China.

Brandon, what do we know about who approached the professor

and why they approached him and what happened to the research?

Well, that's an excellent question and so of course, Leiber denies all of this and he says that this is all a misunderstanding.

But ultimately, we know from the FBI investigation

that was conducted into his issue.

Here was a top, not just Harvard scientist,

the head of their chemistry department,

touched everybody with his research,

but he was also a senior nanotechnology researcher

for DARPA, which is our highly sophisticated elite military research group.

He was working for years for DARPA, had exclusive contracts with them.

He was approached at some point in the 2010s by representatives of the

Thousand Talent Program in China saying, hey look, we'll pay you $50,000, I believe it was a month or

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