Replies

This might be interesting to you. Have a newspaper article dated April 8, 1999, reported in the New York Times entitled: SPY REPORTED CHINA'S THEFT OF SECRETS IN 1996--Nuclear weapons data stolen to build neutron bomb

WASHINGTON--In early 1996, the U.S. received a startling report from one of its Chinese spies. Officials inside China's intelligence service, the spy said, were boasting that they had just stolen secrets from the U.S. and had used them to improve Beijing's neutron bomb, according to American officials.

The spy had provided reliable information in the past, and officials said investigators took the report seriously.

China first built and tested a neutron warhead in the 1980s, using what American officials have said publicly, was secret data stolen from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, one of America's key nuclear weapons laboratories.

But the design did not work properly. American officials say that China's 1988 test of the neutron bomb, which kills people with enhanced radiation while leaving buildings intact, was not successful.

Now, the spy was suggesting, Chinese agents had solved the problem by coming back to the U.S. in 1995 to steal more secrets. The spy even provided details of how the information was transferred from the U.S. to China, officials said.

The report prompted a federal criminal investigation, but American officials say they have found no evidence that China has produced an improved neutron bomb.

Sandy Berger, the national security adviser, was first told of a possible new theft of neutron bomb data in 1996, according to officials who took part in the meeting or read the highly classified materials used to prepare for it.

The briefing, these officials said, came weeks after the FBI gave the Energy Department a report about the spy's information.

David Leavy, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said that Berger and another NSC official who attended the 1996 briefing do not believe the nuetron bomb issue was mentioned. Leavy said that Berger did not learn of the suspicions until a more detailed briefing in July 1997.

"""Now, the spy was suggesting, Chinese agents had solved the problem by coming back to the U.S. in 1995 to steal more secrets. The spy even provided details of how the information was transferred from the U.S. to China, officials said."""

would not surprise me in the least. Talked to a guy at nasa/ames who was walking down the hall when he noticed a chinese guy at the copier, copying stacks of paper, no security badge, no escort. He went immediatly to security and got only a lukewarm response.

Makes you wonder, neutron bombs? Did not work? Oh well just go back and get the info you need.

Don't we have a locked door anywhere?