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Ex-FBI Agent Arrested
ABC News.com ^ | 4/9/2003 | Pierre Thomas

Posted on 04/09/2003 1:20:54 PM PDT by StonyMan451

A retired FBI agent who was in charge of Chinese counter-intelligence in California is under arrest, sources told ABCNEWS.

The former agent was identified as James Smith. He was being held in connection with his former job, sources said, but the charges were not immediately available.

Sources said Congress was being briefed on the arrest before it is announced to the public, which was expected to happen later today.

Department of Justice officials declined to comment on the case.

Smith retired in from his job in the bureau's Los Angeles office in 2000.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; counterintelligence; espionage; fbi
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1 posted on 04/09/2003 1:20:54 PM PDT by StonyMan451
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To: Dark Wing
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2 posted on 04/09/2003 1:21:48 PM PDT by Thud
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To: AbeLincoln
Anyone remember John "Zip" Connley?
3 posted on 04/09/2003 1:22:50 PM PDT by michaelje
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To: AbeLincoln
Gee, it would be nice if they could connect this guy with X42, but then he would just be taking the fall for X42.
4 posted on 04/09/2003 1:24:41 PM PDT by Orangedog (Soccer-Moms are the biggest threat to your freedoms and the republic !)
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5 posted on 04/09/2003 1:25:14 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Orangedog
Clintonism, until demonstrated otherwise.
6 posted on 04/09/2003 1:25:55 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: AbeLincoln
I smell Phase II....;)
7 posted on 04/09/2003 1:26:48 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
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To: AbeLincoln
take out the clinton trash
8 posted on 04/09/2003 1:26:57 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: AbeLincoln
Congress was being briefed on the arrest before it is announced

Kind of odd isn't it?

9 posted on 04/09/2003 1:27:19 PM PDT by thepitts (The republic depends upon fervent devotion to all our fundamental rights.)
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To: aristeides; ALOHA RONNIE; johnny chung; ntrulock; Wallaby
I wonder what this guy is connected with? Do you think James Smith is his real name?
10 posted on 04/09/2003 1:27:42 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: AbeLincoln
The former agent was identified as James Smith.

LOL. That's precious. Couldn't they even think up a better name, perhaps something more believable such as "John Doe"?

11 posted on 04/09/2003 1:27:47 PM PDT by Zeppo
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To: onedoug
"Clintonism, until demonstrated otherwise."

Pretty safe bet.

12 posted on 04/09/2003 1:27:55 PM PDT by monkeywrench
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To: AbeLincoln
Congress was being briefed on the arrest before it is announced to the public...

Very interesting.
13 posted on 04/09/2003 1:27:58 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Anti-American globalists are WAY out on a leftist limb, GW Bush is holding a chainsaw.)
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To: AbeLincoln
Well, I'm making a leap based on this guy's name, but I'll hazard a guess he's a generic white guy.

For all the hullabaloo over Muslims in the military, etc., it's instructive to note that our biggest, truly damaging traitors (Aldrich Ames, the Walker Family, Hansen, etc.) have mostly been nondescript, non-ethnic types.
14 posted on 04/09/2003 1:28:25 PM PDT by John H K
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To: AbeLincoln

This guy will be dead soon if "The Clintoons" finds out!

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15 posted on 04/09/2003 1:29:55 PM PDT by fuzzy122
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To: AbeLincoln
Dr James Smith is researching into chemical & mathematical biology and computational pharmacology in the Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics (UCCMI), Department of Chemistry. Between 1996 and 2000, James Smith carried out doctoral research within the Drug Design Group, Department of Pharmacology, exploring the molecular recognition and discrimination of nucleotide receptors. Before 1996, he had developed research interests in molecular and cellular biochemistry in both the University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry and the Nuffield Department of Pathology and Bacteriology (now the Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences) at The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

Same one?

16 posted on 04/09/2003 1:30:58 PM PDT by thepitts (The republic depends upon fervent devotion to all our fundamental rights.)
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To: AbeLincoln
All of the children are finding their own niche in the world. The oldest son is an FBI agent in California. One of the married daughters worked as an investment banker in Massachusetts. The second daughter left a career as a Social Worker to become a stay-at-home mother in New Jersey. The third daughter is single and is a practicing attorney in the Virgin Islands. (Father and daughter partnered in a law practice in New Orleans before she took a job opportunity in the Virgin Islands). Mr. Smith’s youngest child lives at home while he attends college at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.

http://www.dscs.state.la.us/OtherInfo/Features/JamesSmith.htm#Family
17 posted on 04/09/2003 1:31:42 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Is this his dad? Googled.)
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18 posted on 04/09/2003 1:32:38 PM PDT by CheneyChick (Lock & Load)
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To: John H K
Huh. Left the FBI as Chinese counter intelligence just as the Clinton administration came to an end.

Interesting.

19 posted on 04/09/2003 1:32:48 PM PDT by HarryCaul
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To: onedoug
If he rolls over on Clinton, we'll go easy on him.
20 posted on 04/09/2003 1:33:03 PM PDT by Defiant (The Blazing Saddles Defense: "Don't shoot, or the Iraqi gets it!")
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