Has China infiltrated the Securities and Exchange Commission?

A congressionally-chartered security commission is expected to probe China’s suspected infiltration of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A reported Chinese national of the SEC improperly passed sensitive data on American computer companies to Communist China, according to the Washington Times. The SEC forced her to resign, but never notified the FBI.

That has the new chairman of the US-China Security Review Commission taking notice. “The commission is likely to be alert to new Chinese targets of opportunity for economic, industrial and militarily useful espionage,” said Commission Chairman Roger W. Robinson. A former member of the Reagan National Security Council, Robinson is also Chairman of the William J. Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy.

In its first annual report to Congress this year, the Commission “raised attention to economic and industrial espionage in its first annual report to Congress in July and will continue to accord this issue serious treatment,” Robinson said.

The primary mission of the SEC, according to the SEC website, is “to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets.”