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No espionage case in fresh many years has been something just like the Wen Ho Lee affair. As Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman describe in "A handy Spy," an astonishingly inept research of a criminal offense that can by no means have happened resulted in a countrywide shame. A weapons-code scientist at Los Alamos nationwide Laboratory, Lee was once hunted as a secret agent for China, indicted on fifty-nine counts, and held in detention for 9 months as a hazard to the full kingdom. yet after pleading to blame to simply one count number, he went domestic -- with an strange and emotional apology from a federal pass judgement on. Prosecutors' claims that Lee had stolen America's "crown jewels" of nuclear safeguard easily evaporated. but Lee's reasons have by no means been satisfactorily defined, and his often-repeated excuse that he used to be simply backing up his paintings documents doesn't withstand scrutiny. As Stober and Hoffman document, Lee's lies and his unexplained connections to international scientists spanned eighteen years. He was once a safety nightmare. Tapping at his keyboard, he assembled a personal choice of the pc courses used to layout America's nuclear guns, then left them prone to hackers and international intelligence companies for years. The FBI's belated discovery that he had additionally positioned the codes on transportable cassette tapes introduced a frenzied around the world seek that at last carried brokers to the Los Alamos landfill. And but this day, the tapes have by no means been came upon. In 1995, Lee used to be simply one other American, a Taiwanese immigrant striving to aid a kin he adored and to make a reputation for himself in medical circles. Unknown to him, even though, scientists operating within the mystery international of nuclear-weapons intelligence tested purloinedChinese files, studied undercover agent stories, and questioned: Had China stolen the secrets and techniques of the W88, America's such a lot complicated nuclear weapon? medical hunches swiftly developed right into a legal research geared toward Lee. He were overheard via the FBI whereas telephoning a secret agent suspect, and he used to be warmly embraced by means of a high-ranking chinese language nuclear-weapons respectable whom he wasn't imagined to comprehend. The FBI famous that he used to be "ethnic Chinese." And during this doubtful interval after the chilly conflict, many politicians performed up China as a threatening new enemy. power Secretary and vice presidential hopeful invoice Richardson was once desirous to fireplace Lee and seem decisive in retaining nationwide protection. during this stormy confluence of intelligence and politics, Lee turned a handy undercover agent. yet was once he responsible? Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman inform the tale of the Wen Ho Lee fiasco dramatically and authoritatively, delivering an goal account that no partisan model of the tale can fit.
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