Russian High-Tech Export Scandal Produces 8 Arrests in Houston

Penurious Penguin writes "Millionaire Alexander Fishenko, owner of US-based Arc Electronics Inc, and seven others have been arrested in Houston Texas, with a total of 11 indicted in a conspiracy to smuggle advanced microelectronics from the U.S. to Russia. The technology allegedly involves components of radar, weapons guidance, and detonators. Amongst the evidence are accounting records indicating notable similarity between the revenue of Arc Electronics and the Russian Federation's defense spending; intercepted phone calls and emails; and a letter to Arc Electronics from a Russian domestic intelligence lab complaining of defective microchips . A Russian foreign ministry spokesman has denied there were any intelligence connections in the affair."

I can no longer sit back

[GeneralTurgidson]

and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious microchips.

Re:Microelectronics?

[Junior Samples]

His web site says that he specializes in procurement of hard to find and obsolete components. Intel 4004 perhaps?

Re:I can no longer sit back

[aaaaaaargh!]

But the US can still nuke anyone from the orbit, so the money was not well-spent in the first place.

We should rather care about the quality of our drinking water. With current safety standards, any Russian spy could put chemicals in it that cause homsexuality, and I guess we all know what consequences that would have.