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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901 190016-2 SECR ET When the IO discussed the scientist and engineer group, he noted that although these people comprise only a relatively small component of the U.S. population, they made up a significant percentage of those involved in critical specialty engineering and science occupations and observed that these occupations are on the cutting edge of U.S. Government and private industry high- technology research. The IO noted that one-third of all IBM corporation engineers are Chinese. The FBI has seen other PRC officials place this particular statistic at as high as 55 percent. The IO said that Chinese engineers and scientists are working in all aspects of the U.S. space program. The IO also stated, "no matter whether it is building a defense satellite or a sensitive defense weapon, Chinese technical people play an important role. Chinese professors also teach in famous universities such as the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford. The importance of them to China is therefore obvious." The IO remarked that he believes that there is a great future potential for these people to become involved with the PRC, that a long-range plan for them should be developed, and that a natural consideration will be "the problem of importing them to the PRC." The IO went on to opine that it is also possible to categorize Chinese-Americans into three groups based on their degree of emotional ties to the PRC: emigres over 55 years old, emigres younger than 55, and those raised entirely in the United States. SECR ET - 43 - _ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901190016-2