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WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- Sens. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called Friday for a Senate inquiry into the latest FBI espionage scandal as the implications of the penetration of the bureau by an alleged Chinese spy spread to the 1996 presidential election campaign finance investigation, United Press International has learned. According to congressional sources, the two prominent senators have written to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, asking for hearings on the growing crisis of espionage failures at the FBI. The latest scandal involves a wealthy, 49-year-old California woman and major Republican...

FBI bugging 'scuppered by pillow talk' By Marcus Warren in New York (Filed: 16/04/2003) A Los Angeles socialite accused of spying for China may have compromised an American operation to bug the Chinese president's plane, intelligence officials fear. Katrina Leung could have learnt about the bugging attempt from "pillow talk" with her long-term lover, James Smith, an expert on Chinese counter-intelligence at the FBI's Los Angeles office, the officials suspect. Both Leung and Smith were arrested last week. China said last year it had found 27 listening devices in a Boeing 767 that had been refitted at a Texas airport...

FBI agents suspected lover as spy April 13, 2003 BY CURT ANDERSON WASHINGTON--Two former FBI counterintelligence agents suspected in 1991 that the woman with whom both were having an affair was passing sensitive information to the Chinese, but neither told a superior, according to government documents. Former agent James J. Smith and former FBI supervisor William Cleveland Jr. kept under wraps their knowledge that Katrina Leung, an FBI intelligence ''asset'' for two decades, had contacts with intelligence services of the Chinese government. Cleveland, who retired from the FBI in 1993, resigned from his counterintelligence position at the Lawrence Livermore National...