Former Air Force officer arrested for conspiring with hacker to provide flight training to Chinese military
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A former U.S. Air Force officer was arrested for allegedly conspiring with a hacker to provide flight training to the Chinese military, after living in China and negotiating deals involving stolen defense data.
Source: The Record
Gerald Eddie Brown, 65, was arrested in Jeffersonville, Ind. Feb. 26 after spending nearly three years living in China and allegedly providing combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force. Brown spent more than two decades in the U.S. Air Force before taking jobs as a commercial cargo pilot and other positions at two U.S. Defense contractors. In 2023, he began negotiating a deal to train Chinese military pilots with a co-conspirator, Stephen Su Bin, who was accused of breaching multiple U.S. defense contractors from 2008 to 2014, and pled guilty in 2016 to hacking into a U.S. defense contractor and stealing “sensitive military and export-controlled data” for the Chinese government. Full Story