China Allegedly Hacked Top Former FBI Lawyer

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http://www.newsweek.com/china-hackers-fbi-marion-bowman-367451

By Jeff Stein
Newsweek.com
8/31/15

Marion "Spike" Bowman, a top former FBI lawyer and U.S. 
counterintelligence official who heads an influential organization of 
retired American spies, says a hacker from China penetrated his home 
computer, beginning with an innocent-looking email last spring.

"It was an email supposedly from a woman in China, and I exchanged 
correspondence with her a couple of times," says Bowman, who was deputy 
general counsel to three FBI directors between 1995 and 2006. "She sent me 
a document that a friend of hers had supposedly written, in English, and 
wanted my opinion on it," he tells Newsweek. She also sent him her 
picture.

"I never got around to replying, so I never heard from her again," says 
Bowman, who went on to become deputy director of the National 
Counterintelligence Executive, which is tasked with developing policies to 
thwart foreign spies and terrorists.

But then, a week ago, he says, he got another message from China via his 
email account at George Washington University, where he has lectured on 
national security law since 2003.

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