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Top US official warns of 'large uptick' in foreign spies targeting tech companies, threatening national security

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Mike Casey , the nation's chief counterintelligence officer, is warning of a "large uptick" in foreign spies trying to secretly infiltrate tech companies in the U.S. He says China is using front companies and proxies to access start-up companies and steal their new technologies.

Casey 's office and the FBI have spent much of the past year trying to figure out how to deal with the threat.

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