Email to Marie-Ange, cc: Jubilee

[xp_hawkeye]

To: [MAC]
CC: [JL]
From: [CFB]
Security Level: Encrypted
Subject: Question
Attachment: paper-001.pdf; paper-002.pdf; paper-003.pdf; paper-004.pdf; paper-005.pdf

Hey Marie-Ange,

I've got a friend working at UNC Chapel Hill who's familiar with some of the people who worked on the original 'invisibility cloak' at Duke. He touched base with me in 2012, excited about some progress made in updating/upgrading the 'original' from 2008ish, so I put it on my list and I've been keeping an eye on it ever since. Some things... didn't go to plan, but to give you a better rundown of it than I can manage myself, here's where things stood regarding the tech a year and a half ago: [LINK].

Obviously communicating with people in China's not the easiest, but my friend's been following scientific papers and forwarding me relevant ones specifically coming out of the country. They're delayed, so I always estimate they're a good year or so beyond what they're sharing internationally when it comes to their R&D, but their leading people went silent about eight months ago.

That silence has me concerned given the various applications something like this could be used to do. I assume you're already following this to one degree or another, but the research that was being published until this past January was coming out of Peking and Tsinghua Universities and, according to my friend, nobody's been able to locate either of the lead scientists on either of the projects. They might've moved. They might've been disappeared.

My actual contacts don't extend into China, either scientific or from my SWORD/SHIELD days, so I'm useless beyond tossing some of this to the other scientists at the mansion for extrapolation/hypothecation on what they might be utilizing the new and much improved tech for. Kinda worried about who they'd be utilizing it for, too. Especially given their past and current ties to Russia.

If you want me to meet with the others here to discuss things, particularly Sue Storm - or if you just want me to pass it off - I'm good either way. I'm attaching the papers my UNC friend forwarded to me, in case you guys want to hit things from a different angle.

Thanks,
Clint

Comments

[xp_tarot]

To: CFB
CC: JL
From: MAC
Subject: re: Question

I was going to suggest I forward this to people who understand any of this -and- speak multiple Chinese languages but you already did half of that for me. Jubilee just slid through the break room like that movie with Tom Cruise and asked me if she is allowed to steal an invisibility cloak.

I will put this into our rotation of things to look at. I am not terribly worried at the moment that this is going to seep into the mutant human rights violations and weaponization that comes out of the worst people in China, but sometimes these things sneak up on us.

If you do not pass this to Ms Storm and the others in the labs, I will, so have at it certainly.

[xp_jubilee]

To: CFB
Cc: MAC
From: JL
Subject: Re: Re: Question

Dude. Duuuude. Ok, so like, I know I can’t just go steal it now but totes Imma have this in my back pocket for surveillance.

Clint, you are my favourite naked arrow person today.

[xp_hawkeye]

To: [MAC]
CC: [JL]
From: [CFB]
Subject: RE: Re: re: Question

I mean, I'm rarely naked when shooting arrows, but I guess I can give it a shot if you want?

Also, thanks. I know it's not 100% your thing. I just get anxious around tech like this being misused/stolen and repurposed or whatever the Chinese government might do with it.

Also also, Marie-Ange, I'll forward all this to the science people.