[dennisw]

What is he doing even meeting with Hu Side?

[dennisw]

Looks like his 1988 meet with Hu Side was a follow up to his 1986 meets with ChiCom scientists.

[Poohbah]

Apparently, he was working for the FBI. The FBI has always resented the CIA's covert ops, and they have always tried to get into the intel business.

The way this thing played out makes me wonder if there isn't a LOT more going on here than is obvious. Wen Ho Lee and Notra Trulock are playing a double game here. Wen Ho Lee has written a book telling his side of the story; Notra Trulock has his side; and perhaps the ChiComs are starting to look at those W-88 technical materials and wonder whether they're the real deal or not.

IIRC, James Jesus Angleton, the counterintelligence guy for the CIA referred to espionage as "a wilderness of mirrors."