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FBI busts Chinese national in latest Detroit counterintelligence case

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors in Detroit charged a Chinese national Friday who is portrayed as working for her government's spy agency while meeting with current and former U.S. government officials, the latest in a series of counterintelligence cases that have raised national security concerns. Di Jin, 41, a resident of Tianjin Municipality in northern…

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