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<p>A second former FBI agent who worked in counterintelligence has admitted having an affair with a suspected Chinese double agent arrested earlier this week with another ex-FBI agent in the passing of classified information to the People's Republic of China.</p>

China Reform Monitor No. 545, May 17, 2004American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DChttp://www.afpc.org Editor: Al SantoliAssociate 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...

It seems that Harrison Ford doesn’t think President Bush is green enough. Then again, he doesn’t think Kermit the Frog is either. Using a fuel-guzzling helicopter, Ford routinely watches over the Hudson River and blows the whistle on polluters. But the actor is apparently unhappy about the president’s environmental patter in the State of the Union address. Bush spoke about an initiative to prevent forest fires. And he praised some programs that help the environment and the economy, such as hydrogen-fueled cars. “That was a fascinating construction of the president's,” Ford sarcastically told the New York Daily News, “about how...