WASHINGTON, May 25 (AFP) - Chinese "princelings" with close ties to top communist officials used illegal campaign donations as part of a concerted effort to obtain US military technology, according to a House report released Tuesday. The charge appears in a much-awaited report by an investigative panel headed by Republican Representative Christopher Cox that alleges China plundered US nuclear secrets and is probably still spying against the United States. Two notable "princelings," Wang Jun and Liu Chaoying, were "directly inolved in illegal activities in the United States," including the 1996 campaign finance scandal, according to the Cox report. Liu, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) lieutenant colonel, funneled 300,000 dollars through Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung in a bid to improve her chances of getting computer, missile, and satellite technology, the report said. The money Liu, the daughter of former Chinese Communist Party Central Military Commission vice-chairman and Politburo Standing Committe member General Liu Huaqing, gave Chung in 1996 came from General Ji Shengde, who has headed Chinese intelligence since 1992. Wang, son of late Chinese president Wang Zhen, was embroiled in the 1996 finance scandal that led US President Bill Clinton's reelection effort to return vast illegal or improper donations, including some funds from China, the report said. Wang heads the China International Trade and Investment Company and the PLA-owned Polytechnologies Corporation, an arms-trading company indicted for trying to smuggle 2,000 Chinese AK-47 assault rifles into the United States. Wang was connected to more than 600,000 dollars in illegal campaign contributions funneled by Clinton friend Charlie Trie to the Democratic National Commmittee, according to the Cox report. And in February 1996, Wang attended one of the notorious White House "coffee" fundraisers with Clinton and met with the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown a day later. "Princelings such as Wang and Liu present a unique technology transfer threat because their multiple connections enable them to move freely around the world and among the different bureaucracies in the PRC," the report said. "They are therefore in a position to pull together the many resources necessary to carry out sophisticated and coordinated technology acquisition efforts," according to the report. -=-=- 