[lionspaw]

A lot of people are linking past cases that are similar, but let me just link the biggest one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen

The guy went on to lead China's missile and aerospace program, but it was almost certainly because he had his life destroyed in the US first.

The 50th Secretary of the US navy, Dan Kimball said, "it was the stupidest thing this country ever did. He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go."