更新于：2026年2月26日 / 美国东部时间上午6:08 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
司法部周三宣布，一名前空军战斗机飞行员因涉嫌未经授权为中国军方人员提供培训而被捕。
司法部声明称，65岁的杰拉尔德·布朗（Gerald Brown）最近从中国返回美国后，在印第安纳州被捕。他自2023年12月起一直在中国。
声明称，他被指控”与外国人合谋，未经美国国务院要求的许可，为中国空军飞行员提供战斗机训练”。
联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）在社交媒体上发布消息：”重大新闻…联邦调查局和我们的合作伙伴逮捕了一名据称正在为中国军队培训飞行员的前美国空军飞行员。”
负责国家安全事务的助理司法部长约翰·A·艾森伯格表示：”美国空军将布朗少校培养成一名精英战斗机飞行员，并将保卫国家的重任托付给他。他现在被指控培训中国军方飞行员。”
司法部称，布朗在美国空军服役24年，期间”指挥负责核武器投送系统的敏感单位，领导作战任务，并担任各种战斗机和攻击机的战斗机飞行员教官和模拟器教官”。
声明称，他于1996年从军队退役，担任货运飞行员，但后来开始为两家美国国防承包商工作，培训飞行员驾驶A-10和最先进的F-35战斗机。
布朗据称于2023年8月开始与苏斌（Stephen Su Bin）谈判合同——苏斌是一名中国公民，2016年因另一项间谍计划在美国被监禁四年——并于2023年12月前往中国开始其培训工作。
美国联邦调查局反间谍与间谍部门官员罗曼·罗哈夫斯基（Roman Rozhavsky）表示：”中国政府继续利用美国武装部队现役和退休成员的专业知识，使中国的军事能力现代化。”
他补充道：”这次逮捕发出警告，联邦调查局和我们的合作伙伴将不遗余力地追究任何与我们的对手勾结、伤害我们的军人并危害我国国家安全的人的责任。”
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- 美国司法部
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Former “elite” Air Force pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military pilots arrested, DOJ says
Updated on: February 26, 2026 / 6:08 AM EST / CBS/AFP
The Justice Department announced the arrest Wednesday of a former Air Force fighter pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military personnel without authorization.
Gerald Brown, 65, was arrested in Indiana after recently returning to the United States from China, where he’d been since December 2023, a Justice Department statement said.
He is accused of having “conspired with foreign nationals to provide combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force” without a required license from the U.S. State Department, the statement said.
FBI director Kash Patel posted on social media: “Major story… the FBI and our partners have arrested a former US Air Force Pilot who was allegedly training pilots in the Chinese military.”
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said, “The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots.”
Brown had a 24-year career in the U.S. Air Force during which he “commanded sensitive units with responsibility for nuclear weapons delivery systems, led combat missions, and served as a fighter pilot instructor and simulator instructor on a variety of fighter and attack aircraft,” the DOJ said.
He retired from the military in 1996 and worked as a cargo pilot, the statement said, but he later began a role with two U.S. defense contractors training pilots to fly the A-10 and state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jets, according to the statement.
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Brown allegedly began negotiating a contract in August 2023 with Stephen Su Bin — a Chinese national who was imprisoned in the U.S. for four years beginning in 2016 over another espionage scheme — and traveled in December 2023 to China to begin his training job.
“The Chinese government continues to exploit the expertise of current and former members of the U.S. armed forces to modernize China’s military capabilities,” said Roman Rozhavsky, an official with the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division.
“This arrest serves as a warning that the FBI and our partners will stop at nothing to hold accountable anyone who collaborates with our adversaries to harm our service members and jeopardize our national security,” he added.
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- United States Department of Justice
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