The court in California had also convicted Chi Mak, 67, of acting as a foreign agent and of making false statements to federal agents.
Mak had worked on submarine propulsion systems for defense contractor Power Paragon in Anaheim.
The FBI found defense CDs in luggage of Mak's relatives at Los Angeles airport.
Prosecutors had alleged that Mak gave thousands of documents to his brother, who handed them to Chinese authorities.
Hong Kong flight
Mak said during last year's six-week trial that he copied sensitive documents from Power Paragon and kept copies in his office.
Mak, a naturalized US citizen, said he had not realized at the time that making copies was illegal. 
Mak was arrested in October 2005 in Los Angeles after FBI agents stopped his brother and sister-in-law as they boarded a flight to Hong Kong.
Investigators said they found three encrypted CDs in their luggage that contained documents including one on a propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.
Three ENCRYPTED CD's and he didn't think that copying them was wrong? He encrypted them and gave them to his brother, who gave them to the Chinese. How much more evidence do you need?
Personally, if we find a spy, he should get life or death.
Of course, I'm a hard ass, so I would recommend death.
But there will be my detractors who say "well what about our spies in other countries". Our guys get executed when they are found out in Russia or China, so I fail to see why I should have to pay for this cocksucker to be housed in one of my tax payer paid for prisons for the rest of his life.
His actions endangered the lives of American men and women on these subs and their lives are more valuable to me then his.
Travis
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