Posted on 04/27/2003 8:20:49 PM PDT by heyhey
A second former FBI agent who acknowledged an affair with a suspected Chinese double agent has resigned his sensitive security post at a California nuclear weapons lab ...Isolated event? No major breach of National Security when the head of Security at Lawence Livermore is passing info to a Chinese agent?
William Cleveland Jr. worked in Chinese counterintelligence before taking a job at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He resigned Thursday as chief of security ...
Cleveland is one of two former FBI counterintelligence agents who acknowledged lengthy affairs with the alleged double agent, Katrina Leung. Leung is being held without bond on charges of passing secrets to the People's Republic of China while also an intelligence "asset" on the FBI payroll.
The other agent, James J. Smith, is free on $250,000 bond on charges of gross negligence for allegedly allowing Leung access to classified materials during their two-decade affair.
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FBI officials say the investigation is continuing and that more charges are possible. They also say that so far, nothing has emerged to indicate that the information provided by Leung constitutes a major breach of national security.
In congressional testimony Thursday, Mueller called the case "an isolated event" ...
WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING?
This is what he tells me happened in the early days of World War II.
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