re: China Initiative in PB

DoS FOIA reading room:

FL-2021-00020 A-00000422386 "UNCLASSIFIED" 7/15/2021 FL-2021-00020 7-15-21 1

The email chain from June 7, 2019 mentions the "Factor 8 Program" and a DoD briefing.

"Kevin and I are briefing most of DOD's senior leadership that morning."

Jeff Stoff

Factor 8 Program

Went in search of Factor 8 Program and found this: Department of Defense, Defense Science Board

"Strengthening CounterIntelligence Capabilities Against the 'Insider' Threat"

Went in search of Jeff Stoff - From WaPo July 30, 2020 (referencing Hoover Institution report which has just been published):

Authored by historian Glenn Tiffert, U.S. government researcher Jeffrey Stoff and Kevin Gamache, an administrator who has led efforts to heighten security awareness at U.S. universities, the report is an example of how organizations controlled by the Chinese Communist Party have leveraged the openness of U.S. society to bolster China’s military power.

From the Hoover Institution report:

Neither the US government nor the universities and national laboratories in the US research enterprise are adequately managing the risks posed by research engagements with foreign entities.

Chapter 1 identifies more than 250 published research collaborations between scholars based in the United States and counterparts from seven universities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that are integral to that nation’s defense research and industrial base.

And…

The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) high-lighted these gaps in a 2018 letter addressed to more than ten thousand institutions in which he expressed concern that some recipients of NIH research funding had diverted IP in grant applications or from NIH-funded research to other countries; shared confidential grant application information with others, including foreign entities, or attempted to influence funding decisions; and failed to disclose substantial resources from foreign governments, thereby distorting decisions about the appropriate use of NIH funds.

NIH Grants for all FYs = ~$335 Billion

That's a lot of cash with a lot of room for foreign fuggery.

https://irp.fas.org/agency/dod/dsb/ci_exec.pdf

Hoover Inst. report: https://archive.ph/uYrfx

WaPo- Opinion: Why are U.S. institutions working with scientists linked to China’s military modernization?: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/30/why-are-us-institutions-working-with-scientists-linked-chinas-military-modernization/

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