"Director, what in your view... is the counterintelligence risk posed to U.S. national security from Chinese students, particularly those in advanced programs in science and mathematics?"

During an open hearing of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on worldwide threats on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio [R-FL] asked FBI Director Christopher Wray about “Director, what in your view... is the counterintelligence risk posed to U.S. national security from Chinese students, particularly those in advanced programs in science and mathematics?”

Wray replied “The use of non-traditional collectors, especially in the academic setting—whether it’s professors, scientists, students—we see in almost every field office that the FBI has around the country. It’s not just in major cities. It’s in small ones as well, it’s across basically every discipline. And I think the level of naivete on the part of the academic sector about this creates its own issues”

Further discussion between Senator Rubio and Director Wray continued about Confucius Institutes on U.S. campuses.

You can listen to the full testimony of witneses (see list below) but Senator Rubio's questioning begins at the 01:48:04 mark at https://youtu.be/fUpAItATrVw?t=1h48m4s

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Hearing Type: Open
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 9:30am
Location: Hart 216

Witnesses
Director Daniel R. Coats
Director of National Intelligence
DNI

Director Michael Pompeo
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
CIA

Director Admiral Michael Rogers
Director of the National Security Agency
NSA

Director Lieutenant General Robert Ashley
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
DIA

Director Chris Wray
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI

Director Robert Cardillo
Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NGA