spending more than $250,000 a month in g.i. bill and tuition assistance payments. >> there was no obligation to give this money, it didn't have to give this money. somebody made a proactive decision to authorize, this move it forward and why not cut it off? >> reporter: new photos show how deep the ties may go. chen showed pictured in uniform, salutes her father's grave. he was a senior general in the people's liberation army . >> he was supposedly participated in the long march. that gives her credentials not unlike being an officer in the continental army. >> reporter: he has studied in china for 15 years. >> why would a school like the university of management and technology be attractive to the chinese military. >> you get a curated database. you're not just getting a huge database of a lot of americans, you're getting a database of people who are interesting to you, people who work for the