This week, The Wire's cover story was an excerpt of Pulitzer Prize finalist Mara Hvistendahl's new book, The Scientist and the Spy, about the FBI's investigation into a Chinese agricultural company's efforts to steal American seed technology. The case, Operation Purple Maze, became one of the most notorious prosecutions of Chinese economic espionage in the United States. In this interview, The Wire's David Barboza talks with Hvistendahl about the case, and her reflections on its implications for
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