Pincus,
Walter, and Vernon Loeb. "China Spy Probe Shifts to Missiles."
Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2000, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]Materials arranged in reverse chronological order.
Pincus,
Walter, and Vernon Loeb. "China Spy Probe Shifts to Missiles."
Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2000, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to senior U.S. officials, "[a] new review of Chinese military documents provided by a defector in 1995 has led U.S. intelligence agencies to conclude that Chinese espionage has gathered more American missile technology than nuclear weapons secrets."
Marquis,
Christopher. "Report Faults F.B.I. Over Its Handling of Nuclear Secrets
Case." New York Times, 19 May 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]
A Justice Department review, reported to Attorney General Janet Reno earlier this week, says that the FBI "gravely mishandled its inquiry into Wen Ho Lee ... by failing to dedicate sufficient resources to the task and focusing too narrowly on a single suspect."
Vise,
David A., and Vernon Loeb. "Justice Study Faults FBI In Spy Case."
Washington Post, 19 May 2000, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to an administration official, the Justice Department report "'is a top-to-bottom criticism of the FBI's handling of the Wen Ho Lee case'.... 'It highlights the scary question of whether there were other people who were overlooked by the FBI. That is a major national security concern that flows from the report.'"
Pincus,
Walter. "Richardson Offers Nuclear Security Plan." Washington
Post, 9 Jan. 2000, A15. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 7 January 2000, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson "sent Congress his plan for a new, semiautonomous agency to run his department's nuclear weapons programs. The plan ... calls for the director of the new National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), who will also serve as an undersecretary of energy, to be appointed and confirmed by March 1."
Under the plan, the counterintelligence and security jobs in the new agency "will be held concurrently by the department's counterintelligence chief and security czar.... Richardson's plan gives NNSA its own general counsel but says that some other Energy Department employees will serve concurrently in positions inside and outside NNSA."
Loeb, Vernon. "Back Channels: The Intelligence Community -- The
Select Agenda." Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2000, A13. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has ... hired Paul Redmond, the CIA's former head of counterintelligence, to help draft a report, due out by mid-February, on security and counterintelligence failures at the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons laboratories."
Kan, Shirley A. China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1 Feb. 2006.
This report reviews the many factors that went into the huge dispute over Chinese spying.
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