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Following an FBI investigation this summer, more than 1,000 researchers who had hidden their affiliation with the Chinese military fled the United States, the Justice Department (bộ tư pháp) said Wednesday.

The exodus (cuộc di cư; (kinh thánh) sự kiện người Do Thái rời bỏ Ai Cập) came in the wake of the arrests of six Chinese researchers accused of (bị cáo buộc) lying (gian dối, khai man) on their visa applications (đơn xin visa) about their ties to the People’s Liberation Army and a warning to the Chinese ambassador that individuals who had not disclosed (vạch trần, phơi bày) their true status needed to leave or face arrest.

...One researcher was under orders to study the exact layout of a medical lab in order to replicate it in China, federal agents alleged. Another stole (ăn cắp) software code (mã phần mềm) that his adviser at the University of Virginia had developed over two decades, the government alleged.

Those arrests, coupled with the July closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston, which U.S. officials said served as a ­command-and-control node to direct spying operations, sent a signal to Beijing...

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