Katrina Leung
Sexual affairs with her? Yikes!
Posted on 05/17/2004 3:20:22 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
China Reform Monitor No. 545, May 17, 2004
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
http://www.afpc.org
Editor: Al Santoli
Associate Editors: Miki Scheidel, Lisa-Marie Shanks
FBI COUNTER-INTEL OFFICIAL PLEADS GUILTY IN CHINESE SPY CASE;
DEMOCRACY ADVOCATE YANG JIANLI SENTENCED IN BEIJING
May 13:
In a devastating spy case ultimately involving the theft of some of the most sensitive U.S. nuclear weapons secrets, former FBI counterintelligence supervisor, James J. Smith, pleaded guilty before a federal judge in Los Angeles to lying about a 20-year sexual affair with Chinese double-agent, Katrina Leung, reports the Washington Post. In the same period of time, Leung had an off-and-on sexual relationship with another former FBI counterintelligence agent in San Francisco, Peter Cleveland, who recently resigned as chief of security at the highly classified Lawrence Livermore nuclear laboratory.
Leung, a Chinese American recruited by Smith in 1982, quickly became one of the intelligence community's most valued Chinese assets, with contacts in the top ranks of the Chinese government. She brought the FBI information about Chinese military and intelligence capabilities, political intentions, and efforts to influence U.S. electoral politics that was circulated to presidents and foreign leaders. All of the information is now suspect. Leung, who was paid $1.7 million by her FBI handlers, and became an influential Republican political fund-raiser in southern California, as previously reported in the Associated Press.
A special FBI inspection team has been trying to assess what influence she may have had on Chinese espionage cases. These cases include two high-profile probes involving Smith that foundered badly: the nuclear secrets investigations of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee; and TRW Inc. contractor Peter H. Lee, who confessed in 1997 to transferring classified material involving aero-space and submarines to China, but served no jail time.
In addition to not telling the bureau of his affair with Leung, Smith was accused of withholding his discovery in 1991 that Leung had passed "secret unauthorized communications" to the Chinese. Smith was also accused of taking classified documents - including one related to the espionage investigation of Peter Lee - to Leung's home, which she found and copied. Leung is charged with copying national security documents and unauthorized possession of those documents. [Editor: In April 2003, the New York Times reports that Leung apparently compromised a highly sensitive nuclear espionage investigation by exposing the identities of two FBI agents to Beijing.]
China sentenced a high-profile dissident Yang Jianli to five years in prison on charges of spying for Taiwan and entering China illegally, reports the Los Angeles Times. Yang, a resident of Boston, a scholar at Harvard University and a former Tiananmen Square activist, was blacklisted after he left the country in 1989. He was arrested in April 2002, after entering China to study labor unrest using a friend's passport. Mo Shaoping, Yang's lawyer, called the sentence unjust. The family is preparing an appeal. "The spying charges are baseless," Mo said, "while Yang's use of someone else's passport is an offense that carries a maximum of five days detention."
The official Xinhua news agency stated the trial had been conducted in a closed court in line with national security laws. [Editor: According to Yang's family, the trial lasted little more than 30 minutes, with guilt decided before the proceeding began.] Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a news conference that the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court acted properly. "China's judicial mechanism heard and delivered judgment on this case in complete accordance with Chinese law," he said. The U.S. State Department and human rights groups have called repeatedly for Yang's release, with his wife, Christina Fu Xiang, who helped spearhead the campaign. "I know he is not a spy. He is innocent," she said.
The New York Times adds, the case is the latest in a string in which China has used vague but grave charges of spying for Taiwan, to intimidate ethnic Chinese who travel to the mainland to engage in activities that do not have the support of the communist government. Last year, another U.S.-based dissident, Wang Bingzhang, an organizer for the China Democracy Movement, was sentenced to life in prison on charges of spying.
Copyright (c) 2004, American Foreign Policy Council
But I thought that china was our friend and cuba (aka hellhole) was our friend? This isn't me saying we should have better relations with cuba, it's me saying that we should treat both/all commie countries the same.
Attaboy, clintons. Way to go! (assholes)
Praying there are succeeding ripples related to this case which implicate the Clintons and Algore.
But, Willie doesn't have to give any of the money back, right?
Now, Billy Boy wouldn't want the dear Chinese to suffer. After all, they've bankrolled his career since the days of Arkansas and the Lippo Group.
This is the primary reason for the fast end to the Senate hearings on the campaign finance scandal.
It sucks.
We need a full accounting of how bad this was for national security.
It hasn't happened yet.
You could almost make a case that the Boy Clinton did more for immigration than Bush has; more nationals fled the nation under Crinton than at any other time in our nation's history. LoL
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