Intelligence officers have been forced to retire (or resign) by the Clinton Administration for operations which took place during the Reagan presidency. In no instance were these operations "outside the bounds"; all complied with US laws and statutes (and still do). This Administration, through budget changes, has reduced to a trickle the amount of "hard intelligence" being produced (good intelligence costs, whether the intelligence is garnered through human assets or "technology"). The ever-shrinking budget has forced the closing down of offices throughout the world, many of which provided extremely useful "pieces" to a much larger puzzle. The mainstream media has sided with Clinton in deriding the IC for their "failure" to warn the Administration regarding India's nuclear weapons testing. To the contrary, Clinton was warned well in advance - it is true that the specific office which was watching for the tests didn't catch the first one until it had already happened. This office used to work 24 hours a day 365 days a year; but due to the Administration's budget cuts (and subsequent reduction in personnel) this office hasn't been working this schedule for the last four years. Mainstream media has neglected to mention that particular fact. All of the IC the FR source has served with have been men (and some women) of honor and integrity; all take the Constitution and the security of the US very, very seriously.

In a closed door session with the Senate Intelligence committee, CIA director George Tenet was "enraged" by the White House's contention that the agency failed to pick up signs India was readying nuclear tests. Tenet defended the CIA and blamed the White House, saying "We were simply ignored." According to a former U.S. military and intelligence official, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the weeks leading up to the first test sent a letter to the White House outlining plans to conduct nuclear tests in the near future. In spring 1997, CIA operatives detected preparations for a nuclear test in India and presented the White House NSC staff with evidence. The NSC staff in turn confronted the Indian government with the raw intelligence data. "The Indians saw what the U.S. had, were able to figure out how we got the material, and then were able to map out procedures so that future test preparations were better concealed . The White House basically handed them a blueprint of how to pull off a successful test." The White House has also provided Russia and China with intelligence material they were able to use to their advantage in blunting further U.S. intelligence gathering.

Peter Leitner, 12 year veteran of to Defense Technology Security Administration DTSA, said the largest blow to DTSA will come in October, when the agency is scheduled to be transferred from the Pentagon's prestigious policy division to a new office controlled by DTSA's detractors, military acquisition officials who favor foreign sales as a way to help American contractors and control costs. The Clinton administration has "neutered" DTSA's 140 employees through a variety of means, Leitner said: by naming Pentagon leaders who disagree with DTSA's central mission, by giving DTSA analysts only minutes or hours to decipher the complexities of the 21,000 proposed high-tech transfers it reviews each year, by reducing DTSA's dealings with intelligence agencies knowledgeable about foreign adversaries and by establishing interagency procedures skewed toward sale of U.S. technology.

BBC 9/5/98 "The United States has conceded that the rocket launched by North Korea on Monday could have put a satellite in orbit - and may not have been a test of a new ballistic missile. An American intelligence official was quoted as saying that Washington was still analysing data, but the possibility that it was a genuine satellite launch could not be ruled out. In Moscow, Itar-Tass news agency said Russian space monitors confirmed that the North Koreans had successfully put up a satellite. It was said to be circling the earth every two hours and 45 minutes in a high, elliptical orbit.."

AP John Diamond 9/16/98 "The CIA is pumping money and people into recruiting efforts to battle a trend that the agency's departing inspector general says has sapped the clandestine service of its most experienced hands. Agency officials outlined Tuesday initiatives that CIA Director George Tenet announced internally last month to increase pay, provide hiring bonuses and shorten the waiting time for job offers..The program is intended to combat a problem outlined in an op-ed article by outgoing CIA Inspector General Fred Hitz who said the CIA's Directorate of Operations, the clandestine spy service, is losing its best people amid organizational drift and declining morale.."

9/24/98 AP John Diamond "North Korea surprised the United States by launching a three-stage rocket and, with lighter payloads, could be on the way to developing an intercontinental-range weapon, U.S. intelligence officials are telling lawmakers. In a classified briefing Wednesday on Capitol Hill, the nation's top military and civilian intelligence officials told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that they were closely examining the system launched by Pyongyang and studying whether lighter payloads might extend its range enough to reach the United States. ``The fact that they had a third-stage capability was not predicted by the intelligence community, and they are doing a reassessment,'' Sen. Chuck Robb, D-Va., said after a classified briefing by CIA Director George Tenet and Army Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.."

The Electronic Telegraph UK 9/24/98 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard "America's impeachment crisis could have dangerous consequences , inviting fresh trouble at a time when world affairs are already in acute distress , says the former director of the CIA. Hostile states such as Iraq were likely to "discount the United States heavily " as a force in the world , says James Woolsey . He believes paralysis in Washington will prevent the US government from responding to provocations. In an interview with The Telegraph , Mr Woolsey gave a caustic assessment of the President he served until his abrupt resignation in January 1995 . Dismissing Bill Clinton as a "tactician" , he said the foreign policy of the administration was driven by opinion polls , short -term PR calculations and the spin-cycle rythmn of an election campaign. "If you want to know how they make decisions , all you need do is watch the War Room , " he said , referring to the documentary of Mr Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. During his two years as Director of Central Intelligence , Mr Woolsey managed to secure only two conversations with Mr Clinton. "It wasn't that I had a bad relationship with him . I just didn't have any relationship ," said Mr Woolsey. He believes the damage to the American national interest has been substantial , though largely hidden from view. Mr Woolsey compared the global scene to the late 1920's when inchoate foreign threats were ignored , played down , and ultimately allowed to escalate.."

AP 10/7/98 John Diamond "White House procedures for protecting highly secret information are often lax, congressional auditors said Wednesday. Security clearances are granted before completion of background checks, they said, and failing in some cases to order adequate CIA investigations. The White House vigorously disputed the findings published in a General Accounting Office report requested by two Republican House members.. The GAO said that from 1993 to 1996 no White House-wide procedures existed for controlling access to highly classified information, including ``sensitive compartmented information'' so sensitive its handling is governed by rules set by the director of central intelligence. Lack of universal White House procedures for protecting such information extended to several agencies, among them the vice president's office; the National Security Council; the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; and the offices of Science and Technology Policy, National Drug Control Policy and the U.S. Trade Representative, the GAO said. At least the vice president's office and the NSC, however, had their own strict procedures, it said. The White House issued draft security procedures for access to sensitive compartmented information in June 1996 but not made final until last March. These guidelines, the GAO found, lacked rules for working with the CIA on controlling access to the most sensitive information.."

AP 10/14/98 John Diamond ".The Energy Department and Pentagon discovered sensitive nuclear weapons information in boxes of Cold War-era materials that were about to be publicly released at President Clinton's orders. The discoveries sparked a hasty scramble by Congress to block the release of information that energy officials warned would advance the capabilities of emerging nuclear states such as Pakistan and India.. White House officials were alerted to the problem this summer in a letter from Kenneth Baker, a senior official in the Energy Department's Office of Nonproliferation and National Security. The letter concerned the discovery of pages marked ``Restricted Data'' or ``Formerly Restricted Data,'' in boxes of 25-year-old classified documents slated for release without review.. Clinton's executive order, which requires automatic declassification by the year 2000 of documents more than 25 years old, includes an exception for restricted data. But the order contains no provision to search every document in every box -- a task involving billions of pages and as many as 67 different agencies -- looking for the sensitive material. ``This problem poses a great national security risk'' because it involves the potential release of ``the nation's most sensitive secrets,'' Baker wrote."

Freeper Report ".You ask what coverup historians discovered; how about one which we _didn't_ know about, but which came back to embarrass the U.S. In 1994, Clinton and the State Department asked William C. Doherty, jr., to become the Ambassador to Guyana. At the time, Doherty was executive director of the American Institute for Free Labor Development. The United States then asked Guyana to accept, with its compliments, Mr. Doherty as the U.S. Ambassador. Cheddi Jagan, the President of Guyana, did a highly unusual thing (in the diplomatic world) and rejected Doherty. The reason: Doherty had once tried to overthrow Jagan as part of a CIA-orchestrated coup. Scrambling, the Clinton Administration and the CIA tried to figure out what the hell had happened. It turned out Jagan had been prime minister 1961, had been considered socialist, and had been targeted for overthrow by the U.S. The plot failed, and became public knowledge in Guyana. Having discovered all of this interesting diplomatic history, the CIA and the State Department promptly classified its report...despite the fact that everyone in South America knew who Doherty was and that the CIA had tried this stunt in the 60s. Such a classification, of an event everybody knew about, which occurred over 30 years ago, had no basis for being kept secret. U.S. law at the time required all documentation over 30 years old to be released to the archives, as long as it did not threaten national security. The point here is that most of us don't give a damn about what the CIA did 35 years ago, and disclosing its documents will hurt nobody. Yet they refused to turn them over to the National Archives.."

London Telegraph 10/22/98 David Sapted "BILLIONS of dollars worth of United States air defence systems around the world - including those in Patriot missiles and unmanned Predator spy planes - are useless because they operate on the same frequency as local telephones. In a catalogue of disasters listed in an internal Department of Defence review, the United States military is accused of installing about 90 systems in Europe, the Middle East and Asia without bothering to check if they could be used in conjunction with local telephone services..

The New York Times AP 11/11/98 ".The director of the Central Intelligence Agency threatened to quit if President Clinton agreed to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard as part of the Middle East peace accord, The New York Times reported today. George Tenet made the warning after learning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made Pollard's case a key bargaining point in the peace talks, the Times said, citing administration sources. Tenet and a CIA spokesman both declined comment to the newspaper.."

Drudge Report 11/20/98 ".When the CIA uncovered "conclusive evidence" of the personal corruption of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin of Russia in 1995, they sent a report to the White House, expecting Clinton administration officials to be impressed, according to a report in Monday's NEW YORK TIMES. "Instead, when the secret CIA report on Chernomyrdin arrived in the office of Vice President Al Gore, it was rejected and sent back to the CIA with a barnyard epithet scrawled across its cover," reports TIMES spook writer James Risen. "I never discuss top-secret documents," Gore tells the TIMES in an interview. "They never want to hear this stuff," complained an intelligence official who asked not to be identified.."

Drudge 11/24/98 Exclusive ".The Clinton administration is facing the most massive leak of classified foreign policy documents since the publication of the Pentagon papers more than two decades ago during the Vietnam war, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "The impeachment proceedings are going to have seemed like a picnic, before we get though with this," said one White House official. The papers, totaling more than 20,000 pages, according to sources who have read them, include a history of the secret negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea, describing the failed policy of trying to buy off North Korea to forego its nuclear weapons policy. They describe in great detail the intelligence and policy failures that led to the detonations of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan this year. Most embarrassing, the papers appear to corroborate, according to sources who have read them, allegations by a former U.N. arms inspector that the Clinton administration concealed from Congress and the public details regarding Saddam Hussein's ambitious program to develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. The papers also reveal new details on the Clinton policy towards China in which the White House allowed ballistic missile technology exports to China at the behest of wealthy Democratic campaign contributors...The new leaks appear to be indicative of deep dissatisfaction within the foreign policy establishment regarding Clinton policies.."

USA Journal 11/26/98 Jon Dougherty ".However, a story broke yesterday - covered in the Journal today - that should take the remaining wind out of the sails of the dwindling legion of defenders of President Clinton. If it doesn't, then those people who still refuse to face up to the truth about this man should be made to pack their bags and leave this great nation of ours because they simply don't belong here any longer. Matt Drudge reported Wednesday evening that some 20,000 top secret State Department and intelligence documents have been leaked to key media personnel. Those documents may not only substantiate claims that Clinton has sold this country out to foreign hostile interests, but reportedly also detail how he did it. According to Drudge, the papers tell the stories about why North Korea has renewed their nuclear programs, why Iraq remains defiant, and why India and Pakistan tested and have begun to field new nuclear weapons systems within the past year. In short, they tell a story of incompetence, deception and greed - all Clinton trademarks. Furthermore the documents may also place Vice President Al Gore in an even worse light with the intelligence community after a New York Times a few days ago said he has been discounting CIA reports that were critical of Russia because the administration "doesn't want to hear any bad news about their friends in Moscow," even if true... But the revelation about these documents also answers some other questions. For example, they may explain why socialist Democrats in the Senate have helped scuttle any hope in the near future of a national ballistic missile defense. The papers may also help explain why Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector, was so savagely attacked by this administration when he blew the whistle on the bogus U.S. effort to find and destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The discovery of these papers may also help explain why Congress has been so reluctant to pursue these cases of more serious abuses of office against Clinton [because many of them are in on all of this too]. And it may just help explain why Attorney General Janet Reno's `see no evil' attitude with Clinton and Gore prevails to this day. If the U.S. AG would attempt to threaten all the sweetheart deals Clinton and Gore have made with their greedy co-conspirators, it's hard telling what the Clinton Spin Machine would do to her and her career. But what now? When these reports are substantiated - and they will be - what will Congress and Reno do then? ..But now it's a different ball game. You see, no matter how well you cover your tracks in politics, when it comes to running an entire country there is literally nothing you can get accomplished by yourself. Our fine folks in the intelligence community will go along with an inept president and vice president for a while - but only as long as it doesn't seriously damage their ability to protect this nation from itself. Their positions of authority and power supercede the White House because these people are career folks who have been there forever and will be there long after socialist idiots like Clinton are gone.."

The Independent - UK Mary Dejevsky 11/27/98 ".THOUSANDS OF sensitive documents relating to US national security have been leaked, according to reports on the Internet yesterday. But America's mainstream media, preoccupied with the Thanksgiving holiday, seemed not to want to know. The documents, as many as 20,000 pages of them, are said to detail efforts by the Clinton administration to conceal the extent of Iraq's weapons development plans, White House approval for exports of sensitive satellite technology to China, and information about the incentives offered by Washington to North Korea in return for curbing its nuclear programme - terms that North Korea has in the event ignored...Verbatim details from the papers were not available yesterday, and Murray Waas, the reporter said to have the papers, could not be reached. Drudge suggested that Waas, who writes for the pro-Clinton Internet magazine Salon, was reluctant to divulge the contents while Bill Clinton faces impeachment proceedings.."

Freeper Trailer Trash 11/27/98 reports on MSNBC ". Bay Buchanan is hosting the Laura Ingraham show and mentioned the Grand Daddy document leak to Jim Warren. She gave the Drudge Report full credit. The tone of both was calm and analytical. 3 minutes later, Warren asks Scott Ritter about the Document leak. Ritter mentioned that all he knows is what is on the Drudge Report. There was no hint of skepticism in any of the voices at any time. This tells me two things. Drudge is considered a very valid source now, and this story may have big teeth. To my knowledge this is the first mention of this story on cable."

Center for Security Policy 11/23/98 Decision Brief "."At CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., the message seemed clear: The vice president did not want to hear allegations that Chernomyrdin was corrupt and was not interested in further intelligence reports on the matter. As a result, CIA analysts say they are now censoring themselves.".. Specifically, under Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, the Kremlin embraced crony capitalism with a vengeance -- the thoroughly corrupt mutant "market" system that has brought grief to economies throughout Asia and, most recently, in Russia itself. In fact, Chernomyrdin could have been the poster-child for this practice of self-dealing and -enrichment at the expense of the state and its citizenry. Obviously, the highest levels of the Administration -- most especially Vice President Gore, Chernomyrdin's interlocutor in a highly secretive joint commission -- did not want to change American policy towards Russia in light of the thoroughly dishonest character of the government in Moscow. It did not even want to know about the Kremlin's dishonesty...History will record that the world became a much more dangerous place on Bill Clinton's watch. Worse yet, it will probably show that -- thanks to his unwillingness to see, let alone to take appropriate measures in response to, emerging dangers -- the Nation was woefully ill-prepared to deal with them. ."

Drudge Report 11/29/98 ".Waas on Sunday night was said to be "bitterly angry" over the leak regarding the leak. "He is furious that word got out," a close friend to Waas explained late Sunday night in Washington. "He has been holding the documents close after showing them to two Washington newspaper editors." .. During the 1992 presidential campaign, both Clinton and Gore often praised Waas exclusives exposing the Bush administration's Iraq policy, which involved the leaks of thousands of pages of classified papers regarding the Gulf war. It is not clear when Waas will begin to unload on Clinton. Some in Washington speculate that left-wing Waas does not want to write a major expose about the Clinton administration in the midst of the impeachment hearings, fueling the flames for conservatives. "He's bitterly angry," says a close associate. "Conservatives have been spreading rumors to pressure him to do it. And now his White House contacts are now extremely angry and have stopped talking to him because he is doing it!"."

Washington Post 12/5/98 Vernon Loeb John Mintz ".The Justice Department has initiated a criminal probe of the CIA to determine whether the agency obstructed justice when it provided information to Hughes Electronics Corp. about the scope of an ongoing congressional investigation into the transfer of sensitive U.S. space technology to China, according to senior federal government officials. High-ranking CIA officials, including the agency's general counsel, have agreed to testify next week before a federal grand jury in Washington about information provided earlier this year to Hughes, which has supplied the CIA with satellites and sophisticated communications equipment for decades. Government sources say the CIA provided information to Hughes about the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's technology transfer investigation that might have enabled the firm to anticipate the moves of congressional investigators..Sources said the matter began this fall when a CIA analyst specializing in Chinese technology, Ronald Pandolfi, was called to the Senate committee and told staff members that he had concluded in 1995 that Hughes had been too aggressive in marketing high-technology equipment in China. At the time, according to an account from several sources, Pandolfi conducted interviews with Hughes executives about their work in China, causing Hughes to complain angrily to the CIA that he was operating outside of customary channels. The CIA office that regularly deals with Hughes reprimanded Pandolfi, who, after being summoned by the committee, in September laid out a set of accusations against the firm, sources said. Aware of Pandolfi's views, the CIA gave Hughes a heads-up about his discussion with the committee and offered to supply the panel with the names of Hughes executives who might explain the disagreement, sources said. ."

Christian Science Monitor 12/7/98 James Thurman ".When President Clinton agreed in October in the heat of the Wye River peace talks to reconsider the sentence of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, he reopened a dispute between the two nations that many in US intelligence circles want left closed..Pardoning a convicted spy would be devastating to the already low morale in the American intelligence community, analysts contend. To some, it's embarrassing that the president even agreed to reconsider the matter...Last week the White House counsel's office acknowledged it sent a memo to top foreign-policy officials in mid-November. The memo solicits the recommendations of Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, and Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet. The document also requests any information or evidence relevant to the clemency decision. Mr. Goss suggests going public with the memo is an exploratory effort, a test to determine if there is enough public support to sustain a pardon.."

Softwar Website 12/7/98 Charles Smith ".The word being circulated through the halls of Congress is that Clinton is miffed at CIA Director Tenet for opposing the export of Johnathan Pollard (crypto spy) to Israel. Tenet reportedly threatened to walk if the Israeli spy is released in a U.S. deal for the West Bank. White House insiders are said to be leaking the new information to embarrass the CIA Director into a possible resignation. Meanwhile, Congress is offering Hughes engineers immunity if they tell all about their deals with the Chinese Army. General Reno is concerned that Congressional immunity will spoil her plans to prosecute underlings and scapegoats in order to avoid the big fish in the White House.."

Cspan2 2/2/99 US National Security Senate Armed Servies Committee Freeper buttercup ".Lt. General Patrick Hughs expressed his concern about information getting out ahead of, or in advance of U.S. operations.." And adds ".CIA Director George Tenant said our government is hemorrhaging in a way profoundly damaging to our interest. The press is not the problem. Some people derive some power from leaking this information. People have lost their sense of discipline. It is coming from the Executive Branch of government.."

Associated Press 2/21/99 "...The night before Cuban MiGs shot down two Miami-based planes of a civilian rescue group, an adviser to President Clinton warned the White House of a possible confrontation, a newspaper reported Sunday. Richard Nuccio told The Miami Herald that he never got a reply to the memo he sent at 6:44 p.m. on Feb. 23, 1996, using the White House's electronic mail system. The e-mail went to Sandy Berger, now Clinton's national security adviser, said Nuccio, who has since left the White House. Nuccio said he also tried several times to speak to Berger by telephone but got no response. White House spokesman P.J. Crowley told The Herald that Berger received Nuccio's memo, "but he did not have a chance to read it that evening." He added: "Rick was acting on his intuition. In point of fact, we had no intelligence to suggest that the Cubans would act in a hostile manner." ..."

Cato Institute 2/23/99 by Timothy M. Beard and Ivan Eland "...Although the end of the Cold War reduced the likelihood of a nuclear exchange between the superpowers,several smaller rogue states, through their dedicated efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles, have emerged as potential threats to U.S. national security. National Intelligence Estimate 95-19 stated that no new missile threats to the United States would develop before 2010. However,given the curious circumstances of the estimate's release and the many analytical faults contained in the document, its results have been questioned. In the summer of 1998, the congressionally appointed Rumsfeld commission reported that the ballistic missile threat to the United States was greater than the intelligence community had postulated. The commission noted that any one of several rogue states could decide to acquire a capability to inflict major destruction on the United States and then do so within five years. Only recently has the Clinton administration begun to grudgingly acknowledge that the threat may be more severe than it had anticipated. To reduce the risk posed by unforeseen threats, the United States should reallocate money in the intelligence budget from technical means of collection to human collection--which might be more effective in discovering proliferation--and should develop a limited national missile defense.... Syria, Iraq, Libya, Iran, and North Korea pose the most likely threats to the American homeland and American forces in foreign theaters....each of those nations has made a diligent attempt to acquire ballistic missiles and some sort of WMD capability either through an indigenous development program or by purchasing the technologies on the open market...."

Electronic Telegraph 3/8/99 Hugh Davies Julian Nundy "…THE CIA mounted a coup operation against Saddam Hussein in 1995, even setting March 4 as the date. But the plan was ditched at the last minute when the White House withdrew support. Details published in Le Journal du Dimanche in Paris follow disclosures that the CIA infiltrated teams of United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq, among them nine officials, who were part of an attack being mounted from Jordan in June, 1996. This went awry after Saddam infiltrated a group of Kurdish dissidents on whom the agency was relying. Dozens were executed.

The French newspaper said a five-man CIA team was put in place for the earlier attempt. When it was called off they were arrested by the FBI and charged with attempted murder. Gilles Delafon, a Middle Eastern affairs specialist, said charges were dropped in 1996 and the five were decorated for their work, but "the affair seriously shook CIA morale". The CIA, respecting an order dating from the presidency of Gerald Ford banning assassinations, planned a coup in which the Iraqi leader would have been overthrown and replaced by five Iraqi generals. The strategy was drawn up with the help of Gen Wafic al-Samarai, an Iraqi officer who defected. The plan involved an uprising by Kurds in the north of Iraq, while military opponents of Saddam attacked the barracks where he had his residence. But on the eve of the attack, the CIA team received a message from Tony Lake, President Clinton's national security adviser, telling them the White House did not back it…."

Global Intelligence Update 3/8/99 "…Four intelligence scandals blew up in the past week or so: A blown U.S. intelligence collection operation in Iraq; Chinese theft of nuclear weapons secrets from Los Alamos; the claim that Israel's Mossad had taped Clinton having phone sex with Monica Lewinsky and was using it to blackmail Clinton into stopping a mole hunt for an Israeli agent in the White House; and suspicion that Greece had traded U.S. and NATO jamming codes to the Russians. However true each of these is, somebody has clearly launched a campaign against the Clinton White House. Depending on your point of view, this is either another in an endless series of attempts by a vast right-wing conspiracy to discredit the President or a desperate attempt to warn the country about the incompetence or malfeasance of the Administration. But it does not strike us as accidental that these four reports all hit the major media within a few days of each other. We see a "culture war" underway between the Clinton Administration and the national security apparatus. Underlying it is a fundamental disagreement as to the nature of the international system, the threat faced by the United States and the appropriate policies that ought to be followed…."

Global Intelligence Update 3/8/99 "…But even behind this, even behind the hints of corruption and malfeasance, there has been a deep-seated sense within the defense and intelligence communities that the Administration was simply not sensitive to the national security needs of the United States. From the beginning, there has been a deep policy and cultural divide between the national security apparatus that was honed and seasoned during the Cold War and the Clinton Administration. For the Clintonites, the need to maintain engagement with China and Greece, for example, outweighed archaic concerns about weapons system security. Attention to the fine details of covert operations, which would dictate not operating within the easily exposed milieu of UNSCOM, was not seen as a priority. Maintaining communication security and not calling a mistress on an open telephone line was not taken seriously. Someone in the national security community, or among its congressional allies, decided this week to open a new campaign against the President. Whoever the leakers were this week, they are trying to paint a picture of an Administration that was simply indifferent to the classical concept of national security. The end of the Lewinsky affair has, it appears to us, opened a new battlefield in which the stakes are much higher. The President and his Administration are being charged with being either fools or knaves when it comes to defending the security interests of the United States…."

London Telegraph 10/26/97 Ivo Dawnay "…THE mysterious resignation of a top CIA official has provoked charges that the United States Government is hushing up politically embarrassing disclosures of nuclear skullduggery by China and Russia. By the time China's President Jiang Zemin arrives in Honolulu today for an eight-day state visit, Gordon Oehler will have cleared his desk at the Non-Proliferation Centre at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Yet just a week ago, Mr Oehler, who was responsible for co-ordinating all American intelligence gathering on nuclear arms sales, was assuring Congressman Curt Weldon, the chairman of the House National Security Committee, that he had no intention of quitting. Less than 24 hours later, he had gone, claiming that he had been driven to resignation by plans to cut the budget and responsibilities of his department and by endless interdepartmental battles over what information should be passed on to the public and Congress. The departure of Mr Oehler, a 25-year career CIA officer, may have little to do with President Jiang's visit directly. But it will certainly be welcomed by military chiefs in Beijing and by China's burgeoning arms export industry…."

NewsMax/ABCNEWS.com 3/8/99 Eric Wagner "…The Chinese and other foreign governments, say DOE officials, have exploited a culture of openness, and lax security systems at the labs ‹ which are owned by the government but operated by the University of California ‹ that makes them what one official calls a "Wal-Mart" for spies shopping for nuclear secrets. From 1994 to 1996, a General Accounting Office survey found that eight people with known or suspected connections to foreign intelligence services were let into the Los Alamos lab without background checks, and five were let into the Sandia National Laboratories. The GAO also found that in many instances foreign visitors were allowed to roam unescorted after hours in sensitive lab areas. A Los Alamos official told the GAO in 1997 that the facility allowed the access to preserve an open "campus atmosphere" for researchers. Chinese operatives also target Chinese-American nuclear scientists during business travel and at scientific conferences, appealing to their ethnic roots, officials say….."

Capitol Hill Blue 3/9/99 Doug Thompson "… The FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) all warned the White House three years ago that China was obtaining U.S. weapons secrets at will, but the Clinton administration ignored the warnings and approved contracts that involved key Democratic campaign contributors. "It's a sieve at our national labs, with our defense contractors and this administration," said one Energy Department source who asked not to be identified. "We might as well publish all of our classified material in the New York Times." Despite the warnings in 1996, President Clinton approved the sale of sensitive technology to China by the Loral Space & Communications, a company run by Bernard Schwartz, who contributed more than $1 million to Clinton's and other Democratic campaigns in 1995. ….But several officials at the Energy Department and within the Clinton administration disclosed in confidential interviews that there is an unofficial "look the other way" policy in place where China is concerned. "We weren't supposed to look that closely where China was concerned," one Justice Department source said Monday. "There was a 'hands off' policy that was understood." In fact, the Clinton administration ignored repeated warnings from the FBI, CIA and NSA over the loss of secrets to China. Confidential memos sent to the White House often mentioned suspects who are also contributors to Clinton's last two election campaigns as well as campaigns of other Democratic candidates.

"Yes, many of the players in this have a history of contributions to the President's campaigns," a Justice Department source said Monday. "We raised red flags about this three years ago." At the time the FBI questioned the approval of the Loral deal, White House Counsel Charles Ruff told Clinton to ignore the concerns because they were being raised only by "career staff" members…. A "career staff" member at Justice laughed when asked about that Monday. "Career staffers are not Clinton appointees," he said…. "

Original Sources 3/9/99 Mary Mostert "… Now, let's see. Wen Ho Lee "has been under FBI investigation since late 1997" but the Bureau has not been able to "develop specific evidence against him so the Clinton Administration "Allowed Lee to remain at his classified job, while under surveillance for high treason?" It appears action was taken to REMOVE him when, but not before, Senator Lott and Senator Shelby complained about the situation. …The fact of the matter is that, from its inception in 1993 the Clinton White House has shown contempt for national security concerns. Gary Aldrich, in his book, published in 1996, spoke of the Clinton White House deriding the very idea that people needed security clearances to handle or read classified documents. "I believe that classified material passed through the hands of Clinton employees without security clearances," Aldrich wrote, outlining the constant stonewalling he experienced when attempting to conduced required background checks on White Youse employees. A General Accounting Office report made public in October 1995 revealed that from 20 January 1993 to March 1994 there were only twenty-four employees in the entire Clinton administration who have been cleared to handle the thousands and thousands of classified documents…."There was no way they could have handled the workload," Adrich wrote. "I believe that classified material passed through the hands of Clinton employees without security clearances. After all, little or no regard was given to any other security-related policy or procedure. Why would they treat classified documents any differently?" Why, indeed? The Clinton White House learned of nuclear spying in 1997 by another scientist, Peter Lee, a Taiwan born scientist working in the Los Alamos lab, who evidently turned over information about national security laser programs during a trip in 1985 to China. Peter Lee confessed in December 1997 and was sentenced to 12 months in a halfway house. Twelve months in a halfway house? The Rosenbergs were executed for less than that…."

Wall Street Journal 3/19/97 Editorial "…Just in the last week, we learned that FBI officials tipped off two NSC underlings last June about Chinese government intentions to influence U.S. politics. Mr. Lake says he was never told because the FBI advised the pair to keep it to themselves. The FBI replies that its agents told the NSC no such thing -- and why would they tell the NSC if not to have the information influence official policy? Stranger still, one of those FBI agents assigned as liaison to the NSC, Edward Appel, is now quitting the White House for undisclosed reasons. Attorney General Janet Reno also now says she tried to tell Mr. Lake about the Chinese tie last May but couldn't get him on the phone. Maybe Ms. Reno would have had better luck if she'd tried talking to Sandy Berger, then Mr. Lake's deputy and now successor as NSC adviser, who we know attended the weekly White House campaign strategy meetings all last year. This is unheard of among foreign-policy advisers, who usually try to distance themselves from campaign work. With so many new and odd developments, the Senate can be forgiven if it doesn't take White House explanations at face value. We're sympathetic to those who say that Mr. Lake, with his intelligence and experience, is about as good as we're going to get from this administration. But Jim Woolsey was a first-rate CIA chief, until he proved too independent for this president. The CIA is a secret, enforcement agency where such independence is vital, especially in an administration as given to corner cutting as this one. With the FBI now publicly feuding with Mr. Clinton over who knew what and when about Chinese influence, it stretches belief that a member of his White House responsible for China policy would now go to run the CIA, in charge of intelligence that might bear directly on the China-campaign connections…"

New York Post 3/10/99 Editorial "…But what's immensely troubling is what the Clinton White House did in 1995, on learning that China had obtained top-secret American MIRV technology a decade earlier….Specifically, Beijing acquired critical information about the W-88 nuclear warhead, which is small enough to permit the targeting of eight sites from a single submarine-launched Trident missile. The latter have a range of 4,000 miles, and the warheads detonate with a force equal to 20 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. That such knowledge has proliferated is disturbing. Yet Congress must also determine why, by all accounts, the administration moved far too slowly, both to investigate the security breaches and to assess their impact. Even now, says Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, ''we still don't knowthe extent'' of the problem…."

The Village Voice 3/10-16/99 Jason Vest "…While the Domestic Lie will draw the wrath of Congress and the independent counsel and whip the Fourth Estate into a frenzy that flings all else aside, the National Security Lie— though more blatant and consequential— will be granted and allowed to fly off into the horizon of memory. Case in point: Last August's obliteration of the Al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan. Two Fridays ago, the Al Shifa's owner, Salah Idris, filed lawsuits against the U.S. government in Washington and San Francisco to release millions of dollars the Treasury Department ordered frozen last year, not long after the Defense Department— on instructions of the commander in chief— destroyed Idris's Khartoum plant with 13 cruise missiles on the heels of Clinton's grand jury testimony in the Lewinsky matter…. One shouldn't forget the details, or think they've ceased to matter, according to a veteran intelligence agent who spoke with the Voice on condition of anonymity, and who has spent most of his career in the shadow of mosques— including those in Khartoum. "You once could have made the argument that the intelligence community was subverting the polity," he mused. "This is a case that shows a change— the polity subverting the intelligence community. And it underscores how oblivious Americans are to the rest of the world that they can be fed this shit. Al Shifa was bogus." …"

Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) 3/09/99 Mary Mostert Freeper Bommer "…Gary Aldrich, in his book, published in 1996, spoke of the Clinton White House deriding the very idea that people needed security clearances to handle or read classified documents. "I believe that classified material passed through the hands of Clinton employees without security clearances," Aldrich wrote, outlining the constant stonewalling he experienced when attempting to conduced required background checks on White Youse employees. A General Accounting Office report made public in October 1995 revealed that from 20 January 1993 to March 1994 there were only twenty-four employees in the entire Clinton administration who have been cleared to handle the thousands and thousands of classified documents…."

Capitol Hill Blue 3/10/99 Doug Thompson "…Many career intelligence officers consider President Clinton and the White House a security risk and withhold sensitive information whenever possible to prevent it falling into enemy hands, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. Often, information is also withheld from Clinton appointees at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), veteran intelligence operatives say. "The White House is not secure when it comes to matters of national security," says one recently-retired intelligence analyst. "Career operatives realize this and place the security of their country above politics." …Capitol Hill Blue has spoken to a half-dozen current and former intelligence operatives who agreed to speak on condition that their identities be protected. They tell a story of poor morale at both the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA), where political infighting threatens national security. The White House, they say, has little use for career professionals, preferring to put political hacks into high-security positions. "Intelligence is not something that a political appointee can learn quickly and there is always a question of his loyalty to the elected official who put him in his job," one current career operative says. "You have to depend on the career professional to put all this into perspective."…. Capitol Hill Blue has obtained a 1996 memo written by White House Counsel Charles Ruff advising Clinton to ignore warnings from intelligence professionals about the transfer of sensitive technology to China and listen instead to the Presidential appointees. "The department had every opportunity to weigh in against the waiver at the highest levels and elected not to do so,'' Ruff wrote. "This is typical," one retired operative says. "If you don't get an analysis that supports your position from the pro you turn to the political appointee who will tell you anything you want to hear." Because of this, career intelligence professionals decided among themselves to withhold, whenever possible, classified information from the White House. "We've learned in the China debacle that U.S. secrets are for sale to the highest campaign contributor," one retired intelligence officer said. "So it helps to make sure that the information that is passed on is never complete. It's something you have to do if you love your country." …"

Judicial Watch 3/11/99 "… Recently, Judicial Watch uncovered that security procedures remain so lax at the Clinton Commerce Department that anyone with a top secret clearance can walk out of the agency with classified documents in his or her briefcase. Indeed, Judicial Watch had already found that confidential and classified satellite encryptions, along with CIA reports on China, Russia and India, were taken out of the Department by Ira Sockowitz, a confidant of John Huang. The classified materials were perhaps bound for the Chinese. But the Clinton Administration and Congress have failed to thoroughly investigate this. Judicial Watch will, however. This underscores the serious national security weaknesses in the Clinton Administration. For instance, Sandy Berger, the National Security Adviser who buried information about the breach of security at Los Alamos laboratory, is not trained in national security issues. He was an international trade lawyer, specializing in antidumping cases, at Hogan and Hartson, a predominantly Democrat law firm, before joining The White House. It is an understatement to say he thinks "politically," and not strategically. The Huang diaries are a window into the access potential Chinese agents have to classified national security information in the Clinton Administration. Given Huang's importance, they are perhaps the Rosetta stone, from which to do a serious investigation. Judicial Watch is carrying out this investigation in its multitude of lawsuits on Chinagate. Huang will be redeposed by Judicial Watch…."

Buchanan Press office 3/10/99 "…Republican Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan today demanded that National Security Advisor Samuel Berger explain his "dereliction of duty" in failing to alert congressional leaders to the theft of top secret U.S. nuclear warhead technology. According to a New York Times story March 6, intelligence officers at the CIA and the Department of Energy informed Berger in April of 1996 that China had acquired the design features of America's most sophisticated nuclear warhead. William Safire writes that Berger "did nothing." In early 1997, intelligence officials uncovered evidence linking the Chinese to several ongoing spy operations at the nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos. Berger, fully briefed on these matters in July 1997, failed to alert congressional leaders or the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. "The allegations surrounding the transfer of atomic secrets to a potential enemy are the most serious since the Rosenbergs went to the electric chair for atomic espionage in 1953. Our security has been compromised, our technology stolen and our cities placed in mortal peril," Mr. Buchanan said. "Mr. Berger owes his country an immediate explanation for his laxity and inexplicable failure to inform Congress and the American people about the breach of our security. If Mr. Berger cannot satisfactorily explain his dereliction of duty, he should resign," Mr. Buchanan added…."

International Herald Tribune 3/11/99 Richard Lugar "…This could well be one of the most serious security breaches in America's history. Representatives Christopher Cox and Norm Dicks have pried the subject open through a bipartisan select House committee report. Presumably there will now be some accounting through the judicial system. The Clinton administration's handling of the discovery of this espionage also will be examined.

But the immediate focus of the president and Congress must be the recognition that the United States may now be at significantly greater risk from a Chinese ballistic missile attack. This recognition must inform the continuing debates about the efficacy of a strategic partnership with China….. In recent years, many of our protests to the Chinese leadership have been directed at missile and other technological transfers to third countries. We now know that our agenda should have paid at least as much attention to what China was doing to develop its own long-range missiles capable of delivering multiple payloads against American targets….. Lax security arrangements at our national laboratories have been debated for some time; charges about the theft of nuclear-related secrets go back to the 1980s. The debates about how such thefts translated into Chinese military gains have gone on for many years.

Further complicating matters are the campaign abuses involving China that have been attributed to the White House. Some of those abuses involved extraordinarily bad judgment by the president himself. For several years Congress has witnessed the stonewalling of attempts to pry loose documents and obtain the testimony of key participants in the scandal. Most Republican members of Congress discount the president's explanations of Chinese campaign contributions, the merits of his administration's licensing practices for dual-use technology transfer to China and even the credibility of his own policy pronouncements vis-à-vis China….."

CBS 3/10/99 "…CBS News has learned there is yet another top-secret investigation of Chinese nuclear espionage. This case involves the theft of information about America's neutron weapons program from the Lawrence Livermore Weapons Lab, CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. It's a separate case from the one involving nuclear secrets stolen from Los Alamos Weapons Lab and America's W-88 nuclear warhead. The neutron case has been under investigation for several years, and remains active and unsolved. The U.S. has conducted tests, but there are no neutron weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Sources tell CBS News it's further proof of China's aggressive - and successful - espionage efforts targeting America's nuclear weapons labs…."

Toronto Sun 3/14/99 Eric Margolis "… According to the FBI, China is the third most active foreign power spying against the U.S., after Israel and Russia. China's intelligence efforts have focused on stealing or buying technology from Silicon Valley. For operational cover, China uses some of its 1,800 diplomats and journalists spread across the U.S. and Canada in at least 85 offices, as well as the 15,000 students and nearly 3,000 assorted delegations that visit North America each year……."

LA Times 3/14/99 Bob Drogin "…In one report, GAO investigators said security was so sloppy at the three labs until last fall that foreign visitors, including suspected spies, often were allowed 24-hour, unescorted access to areas where sensitive and classified information was stored. In one case, the material was stashed in boxes placed in an open hallway. But the Department of Energy largely ignored recommendations contained in the 1988 report. A follow-up GAO report in 1997 and a separate FBI investigation determined that counterintelligence efforts were still flagrantly ineffective at the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories…."

New York Post http://www.nypost.com/ 3/15/99 Brian Blomquist Freeper A Whitewater Researcher "…EXCERPTS: "The chief congressional Chinagate investigator said yesterday that U.S. research labs are still losing vital intelligence secrets to Beijing....''This problem is an ongoing problem,'' Rep. Chris Cox (R-Calif.) said yesterday....''Our committee believes that not only now, but for the indefinite future, we have serious counterintelligence problems at our national laboratories and elsewhere throughout the government,''...Cox said his spec ial Chinagate committee plans to release its 700-page report on Chinese espionage in the next two weeks. The White House already has a copy of the report and is trying to keep most of it secret....Cox said his committee's report also would deal in part wi th campaign contributions and the possible effect on policy....''The issues of Chinese money and campaign contributions are covered in our report, although it is not the great bulk of our report,'' Cox said...the top Democrat on the Cox committee...agreed with Cox that Chinese spying is "very serious, very significant…"

Judicial Watch 3/15/99 "…In the lawsuit which uncovered John Huang and sparked the Chinagate scandal, Judicial Watch recently deposed the head of the China desk at the Clinton Commerce Department, Mr. Donald Forest. Forest revealed that, contrary to commitments made by current Commerce Secretary Bill Daley, anyone with a top secret clearance could still take classified documents out of the Department without any supervision. Bob Woodward, famed Watergate reporter, has written that Huang did pass classified information to the Chinese. Judicial Watch will redepose Huang next month. In its lawsuit, Judicial Watch previously discovered that John Huang confidant Ira Sockowitz took classified satellite encryptions and CIA reports on China, India and Russia when he left the employ of the Clinton Commerce Department. Sockowitz and other Huang confidants went on Clinton trade missions to China…."

New York Times 3/15/99 William Safire "…Does Lieut. Col. Liu Chaoying, daughter of a top Chinese general, provide a link between the stealing of secrets at our national laboratories in the 80's and the purchase of secrets from our American satellite and computer manufacturers in the 90's? Did a U.S. company help China widen the acquisition envelope of its SA-12 anti-aircraft missile by 20 degrees, and are Air National Guard F-16 pilots now being briefed on their new danger? Is it true that even now, tens of thousands of E-mail messages every month flow out of our national laboratories at Sandia and Los Alamos -- but our National Security Agency's Big Ear fails to monitor them? Is Berger telling the public the same story he told the Cox committee under oath? If so, why was President Clinton denied knowledge from 1995 to 1997 about this most damaging atomic spy coup since the Rosenbergs? Isn't a President entitled to such information before proposing a "strategic partnership"? Or did Clinton really know? But to pose these questions is outrageous. …"

ABC News, 3/09/99 Freeper Jolly "… And over the past decade, officials say, the Department of Energy and the White House have received several explicit warnings about the labs’ vulnerabilities. A GAO report in 1988, an FBI review in 1995, a CIA analysis in 1996, another classified FBI review completed in 1997, two additional GAO reports in 1997 and 1998, and a recent 90-day review by DOE exposed problems at the labs and offered detailed recommendations to fix them. The FBI review in 1997 made 26 counterintelligence recommendations for the labs. Eight were implemented, officials say. The GAO reports published in 1997 and 1998 cited DOE for not implementing counterintelligence measures recommended by GAO in 1988. We didn’t have the support to do these things," says a counterintelligence official. When DOE intelligence officials brought their findings about the W-88 to the White House, they were met with skepticism, and their conclusions about the extent of the compromise were rejected, according to sources. A National Security Council official then ordered the CIA analysis of DOE’s data…"

Freeper Squantos reports 3/15/99 "…As you know from older posts I have moved during the period of time stated above from an active duty position in Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information duties to a civilian form of the same job at the Department of Energy. O'Leary made statement's and discussed information that some individuals in the military are still in Levinworth KS for discussing. Her open use of terms and procedures in speeches to the public used to make use cringe and wince. Who knows, (we do now) what she said in private meetings with foreign weapons expert's. Political Appointees have no idea what they are doing with regards to classified information and what must occur prior to it's release. He implementation of a whistleblower program resulted in classified walking out the front door and due to the nature of the law suits involved the FBI ignored or elected not to play…."

Capitol Hill Blue 3/17/99 Doug Thompson "… The Clinton administration, busy approving the sale of sensitive technology to China, ignored warnings in 1996 from a senior Energy Department Official who said security at the nation's nuclear weapons labs were lax and needed to be tightened immediately, department sources tell Capitol Hill Blue. The official, Deputy Secretary of Energy Charles Curtis, ordered a tightening of security at the national labs, but his orders were never implemented and were also ignored by incoming Secretary of Energy Fredrico Pena when he took office in March, 1997. The White House was also aware of Curtis's order, but chose to ignore it, DOE sources say. At the time, President Clinton was approving the sale of sensitive nuclear technology to China by Loral, a company headed by one of his largest campaign contributors. The revelations directly contradict earlier claims by administration officials that they first learned of the lapses in security in the summer of 1997, more than eight months after Curtis tried to take action. Pena claims he was unaware of the order by Curtis, who left the agency shortly after he became Secretary of Energy, but other Energy Department sources say the new Secretary was fully briefed on the concerns about security at the national labs. "If Pena says he didn't know about this, he's a goddamned liar," an angry DOE official said Tuesday. "There is no way an incoming secretary of energy wouldn't be briefed on something as important as this. I know for a fact that this information was part of his initial briefing materials." …"

Reuters 3/17/99 "…Energy Secretary Bill Richardson Wednesday pleaded for less hysteria over the China spying scandal as he outlined security steps to monitor e-mails and faxes at U.S. nuclear research laboratories. ``We are taking adequate measures, we are addressing the problem,'' Richardson said. ``Let's not get hysterical.'' ….``China did get information relating to the W-88 (nuclear warhead) which is damaging to our national security. The extent of that damage is not known yet,'' Richardson said.

He proposed steps that included ``controlling e-mails out of the labs. And trying to make sure that no classified information leaves the labs to foreign countries.'' …Richardson said the e-mails were ``a potential problem'' but had not been a problem in the past….Shelby said Congress would continue investigating the matter and the committee may call former energy secretaries to testify who were in that job when the alleged spying occurred in the 1980s. ``I believe tonight that our labs are still not safe,'' Shelby, an Alabama Republican, said. Asked about Richardson's comments on hysteria, Shelby replied: ``I don't think anybody's hysterical, I think we're trying to be measured in what we're doing.'' …"

USA Today 3/17/99 Peter Eisler "…The Department of Energy requested at least 19 FBI investigations last year after internal reviews indicated classified or sensitive information was leaked, stolen or compromised at U.S. nuclear weapons plants and laboratories. The referrals were among a host of "critical" security concerns noted in internal DOE briefing material prepared last summer for incoming Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. The ongoing investigations suggest that questions about the agency's safeguards go far beyond those raised by recent revelations that a scientist at Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory may have passed nuclear weapons secrets to China in the mid-1980s. "There has been an alarming increase of instances where nuclear weapons design, intelligence and other national defense information has been either compromised or placed at risk," said the June 1998 memorandum prepared by DOE security officials. Other problems noted in the briefing material and other internal reports obtained by USA TODAY include a backlog of 4,000 "reinvestigations" that need to be done on DOE personnel whose security clearances are beyond their five-year re-examination date. Deficiencies in security forces, alarm systems and other safeguards at several sites also were cited as "critical issues." FBI officials declined comment on the status or direction of any investigations based on DOE referrals. Internal DOE memos say some of the cases involve "disclosures of classified and/or sensitive unclassified information, including potential nuclear computer codes, to foreign nationals," though there's no indication of what countries may be involved. Others focus on unspecified compromises of records by telephone, e-mail and fax machines as well as through the media….Despite the rise in referrals, DOE officials say nuclear weapons material and information is well-protected…."

The Washington Times 3/22/99 Joyce Howard Price "…Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whose department oversees the weapons labs, called the "total penetration" [Newsweek] claim "an over-exaggeration." "There's a lot of hysteria out there that is unfounded, but we will get to the bottom with ongoing investigations of any future problems," he said on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press." Mr. Richardson did not deny the accuracy of the Newsweek report, which said CIA analysts -- responding to President Clinton's order for a preliminary "damage assessment" to determine just how much Beijing knows about U.S. nuclear technology -- found evidence the Chinese "have cracked even the most secret weapons labs." According to Newsweek, U.S. officials investigating Chinese espionage believe China, over the past two decades, may have acquired design information about seven U.S. nuclear warheads, including the neutron bomb developed in the early 1970s. They believe China may also have stolen secrets about U.S. efforts to develop a nuclear weapon able to create an electromagnetic pulse "that would short out anything in an enemy nation that uses electricity." The CIA and a team of top nuclear-weapons experts came to these conclusions, Newsweek says, after CIA analysts pored through data gleaned from U.S. espionage against China. The material included years of communications intercepts and revelations from a 1995 defector involved in China's nuclear program. The material -- much of it written in Chinese and never read --had been stored in CIA computers and forgotten about until now. Newsweek said that when the CIA showed the evidence to several nuclear-weapons experts "they practically fainted." The magazine quoted one unnamed U.S. official close to the probe: "The Chinese penetration is total. They are deep, deep into the labs' black programs."…."

Sacramento Bee 3/28/99 Nando Media/Reuters "…The New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday that Western intelligence officials believe Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov took a payoff from Iraq in exchange for strategic materials from Moscow to build up its nuclear weapons stockpile. Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh quoted high-level American intelligence sources as saying Primakov received $800,000 in a wire transfer in November 1997. The New Yorker said a spokesman at the Russian embassy in Washington denied all charges of corruption against Primakov. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, asked about the report during an appearance on ABC's "This Week," said that while he had not read the whole article and had just seen it, "I have no evidence to support that, no. I don't know whether Mr. Hersh has." In the report, Hersh quoted one unidentified source as saying, "A payment was made." "This is rock solid - like (now-jailed Mafia boss) John Gotti ordering a whack on the telephone. Ironclad." The weekly magazine, which goes on sale on Monday, said a British signals-intelligence unit intercept produced evidence of the transfer. It quoted a second unidentified U.S. official as saying, "There was a wire transfer to an account of $800,000." …"Russia is hopeless now," Rolf Ekeus, the first head of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in charge of dismantling Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, was quoted in the New Yorker as saying. "It is clear that Russia is making a serious effort to control events. Saddam will get a bomb, because these materials are floating in. Every day, they are more advanced." …."

New York Times 3/27/99 James Risen "…The F.B.I. has found and questioned a Chinese researcher in connection with the inquiry into China's suspected theft of American nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Government officials said Friday. The researcher, a Chinese man who worked at Los Alamos for several months in 1997, was located by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday at Pennsylvania State University, the officials said. ….The F.B.I. lost track of him in the later stages of its investigation into Lee…. The F.B.I. opened its investigation in June 1996. In the midst of the furor over the Clinton Administration's handling of evidence of Chinese atomic espionage, the decisions to appoint Lee to the new post in 1997 and to allow him to hire a Chinese citizen as an assistant have raised troubling questions about the procedures that lab officials and the F.B.I. followed. The bureau approved Lee's new assignment, assuring the Energy Department, the lab owner, that it would seek a secret wiretap to monitor Lee's telephone conversations. But the Justice Department rejected the wiretap request, arguing that the evidence in the case was too old to justify it. ….."

On the DSL Timelines by Freeper IndiCrusade 3/29/99 IndiCrusade is a Los Alamos worker "…I've also noted recent press accounts alleging that security at the National Laboratories has been very lax. In order for that to be true, it would have to be very selectively lax. Those I work with are under scutiny allways, in fact I've been told to expect that my use of the computer can be monitored for "key" words, and certainly for hits at certain web sites (haven't been forbidden to visit FR - yet). As I told you last week, there are plenty of good patriotic people here and at other DOE sites. I would be willing to take my concerns before Congress, or go public at some point, provided the information I give is not sensitive (I really don't have much of that, anyway). What you need to understand is that much like the military or SS, DOE employees who value their livlihood are going to be reluctant volunteers to speak out. It goes against the culture and design of national security. We also have an energy secretary who has been influencing Los Alamos for years,and has been close to Clinton and the House Democrats almost as long. I've had one episode with him years ago, and he's tough. A few public record things I can add to your timelines, for whatever they may be worth: On May 17, 1993, the Clintons, Congressman Richardson, DOE Secretary O'Leary (among others)visited Los Alamos, rather unexpectedly. This was the famous trip that also included the haircut on Air Force One. Soon after that, as I recall, the laboratory laid off a number of long time workers (many later sued successfully to get rehired). I think Clinton also directed a formal (unilateral?) cessation to underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site. Since then we have been limited to computer models and the like. Clinton again came to Los Alamos rather unexpectedly last year, I think it was in September of 1998. In the meantime, the Clintons and Al Gore have made numerous trips to Albuquerque (where there is another DOE laboratory). Some of these were campaign situations, but usually not. We've also been through several DOE secretaries since 1992. And throughout there has been a big can of worms under the umbrella of "safety issues". No matter what you do, nukes just aren't safe enough because people just aren't perfect enough…."

Washington Post 3/28/99 Walter Pincus Vernon Loeb "… Freeh in recent testimony before House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees provided the first authoritative on-the-record description of what has been going on from the administration's perspective. In 1995, he said, the FBI was asked to investigate "an incident that happened, they thought, between 1984 and 1988," and that may have involved information about what was then the newest U.S. nuclear warhead, the W-88. Freeh said what the FBI had to work from was a historic view that secret information originating at the Los Alamos National Laboratory may or may not have been passed "in the field of things like computational fluid dynamics," or computer modeling relative to the initial explosion in a nuclear weapon. The source of the allegation, according to other sources, was a 1988 Chinese government document on Beijing's nuclear weapons program from a "walk in" informant who turned it over to U.S. intelligence in 1995. That document, the sources said, contained references to information resembling the W-88 design, leading to suspicions that Chinese researchers had been supplied with U.S. secrets to speed up their own designs for miniaturized warheads….. By late 1996, therefore, Lee was a suspect. But because the FBI investigators could not find any unusual transfer of money to him, any physical evidence or motive, they were unable to get a court to authorize a wiretap on his home, sources said….. In August 1997, Freeh said, he told Department of Energy officials that there "was not sufficient evidence to make an arrest" and that DOE was to determine whether to keep Lee on since "the case was not as important as what damage he may continue to do by accessing information." DOE, with FBI approval, kept Lee on and the investigation continued until December 1998, when he was moved to a nonclassified area and polygraphed for the first time….. And, the director added, even if he had an "FBI agent sitting there we wouldn't know what they were talking about."…"

Los Alamos National Laboratory 4/5/99 Daily News Bulletin "...As part of the Laboratory 's efforts to further strengthen counterintelligence and cyber-security, the Laboratory today began a stand-down of all classified computing activities except for those necessary for safety and security purposes. The Los Alamos stand-down is coincident with similar measures taking place at Sandia and Livermore national laboratories...."

Security Report for 1997 and 1998 Sent to Congress 4/5/99"... Secretary Richardson today sent to Congress the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Annual Report on Safeguards and Security at its nuclear weapons facilities. Secretary Richardson also authorized the release of an unclassified version of the report and outlined a series of measures being taken to strengthen departmental security...."

The Washinton Post via NewsMax 4/1/99 John F. Harris "...The warnings were there for President Clinton. For weeks before the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia, sources said, CIA Director George J. Tenet had been forecasting that Serb-led Yugoslav forces might respond by accelerating their campaign of ethnic cleansing in the province of Kosovo -- precisely the outcome that has unfolded over the past week. All during this time, U.S. military leaders were offering Clinton a corresponding assessment of their own. If the Serbs did launch such an assault, they said, air power alone would not be sufficient to stop it -- precisely the analysis that NATO's supreme commander, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, articulated publicly this week when asked what the military could do to halt the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Balkans. But in the face of this advice, according to a variety of U.S. and European sources familiar with the decision-making, Clinton and his senior White House advisers pressed on with their planning for an air campaign. The group, participants said, never reassessed the fundamental judgment they had reached the previous fall, which ruled out the use of ground troops as a way of protecting Kosovo's majority Albanian population from a brutal crackdown by the Serbs...."

WorldNetDaily 4/6/99 Joseph Farah "….Top-secret CIA briefings obtained by WorldNetDaily show U.S. intelligence analysts predicted that NATO bombing raids would prompt Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to launch a major offensive against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo…..The documents were provided by a senior intelligence officer on condition of anonymity who said the briefings from last month underscore "the failed strategy of the Clinton administration in the Balkans." The mid-March briefings, issued more than a week before the bombing campaign began, accurately predicted a chain of events unfolding in the Balkans in the last two weeks. The briefings, read by thousands of American intelligence analysts, attaches, senior Defense Department officials and the White House, concluded: * Milosevic had little to lose by initiating a full-scale offensive against Kosovo's Albanians; * Belgrade had sufficient forces in place before the bombing to conduct a serious offensive; * A senior Serb army commander stated openly that he would attack immediately if NATO bombed; * The Serb army would use brutal tactics to kill as many insurgents and their supporters as possible; * A Serb offensive would produce a new flood of refugees, triggering a humanitarian crisis; "The president and his senior advisers knew these risks going in -- yet they elected to pursue their strategy anyway," said the senior intelligence officer. "From a military perspective, this is the geopolitical equivalent of a World War I frontal attack…. The CIA briefing of March 19 also suggested that Moscow was growing frustrated with Belgrade before the NATO bombing raids. Russian officials were, according to the documents, prepared to allow the United Nations Security Council to authorize a NATO show of force, if Milosevic launched an offensive first. After the NATO attacks, Russia sided strongly with Belgrade, condemning NATO's bombing runs in the harshest language. The CIA's predictions on the Serb reaction to bombing was strikingly accurate: "The army's tactics in Bosnia and in earlier Kosovo fighting suggest it would use large-scale shelling by artillery and armor to kill as many insurgents -- and their civilian supporters -- as possible while minimizing its own casualties. The army might launch attacks into Albania in an effort to destroy UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) safehavens." "This fighting," said the report, "preceded by the withdrawal of international relief agencies, could leave the 300,000 people who rely on food aid vulnerable to malnutrition within about two weeks. The 230,000 ethnic Albanians displaced by previous fighting -- together with the tens of thousands who will take to the roads once the new round begins -- would flee toward Albania and Macedonia, creating a humanitarian crisis in those countries." …"

Associated Press 4/7/99 "…On Tuesday, Macedonia's prime minister, Ljubco Georgievski, had called NATO ``completely irresponsible'' for ignoring warnings that airstrikes on Yugoslavia could trigger a humanitarian disaster. Anti-NATO resentment has been growing among Macedonian nationalists who are angry over both the airstrikes against fellow Orthodox Serbs and the inflow of refugees, who are mainly Muslim…."

National Post 4/7/99 Peter Goodspeed "…Despite the protestations of Lloyd Axworthy, the Foreign Minister, and other NATO leaders that they could not foresee the massive ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, U.S. newspaper reports indicate NATO officials were warned weeks ahead of time that military action against Yugoslavia might well unleash a bloodbath. While the western alliance was still pondering its war plans last October and tentatively studying proposals for both an air and ground war against Yugoslavia, U.S. intelligence officials are said to have predicted the mass human exodus that has now occurred. Weeks before the NATO air campaign began, George Tenet, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, forecast that Serb-led Yugoslav forces might respond by accelerating their campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, the Washington Post reported. Quoting sources within the American administration, the newspaper says CIA officials repeatedly raised the possibility of an expanded Serbian ethnic-cleansing campaign if the West threatened Belgrade militarily. When Bill Clinton, the U.S. president, was presented with a military report last October that warned him a ground war in Yugoslavia would require as many as 200,000 NATO troops, an accompanying CIA study predicted two possible outcomes -- a stepped-up campaign of ethnic cleansing against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, or a quick yielding by Yugoslavia once force was applied. Mr. Tenet apparently repeated the CIA's warnings in congressional hearings in early February. At the same time, The New York Times reports that "Pentagon planners . . . said they warned the administration publicly and privately that Mr. Milosevic was likely to strike out viciously against the Kosovo Albanians . . ." U.S. military leaders are said to have expressed deep reservations about the Clinton administration's approach to Kosovo and repeatedly warned the White House that if the Serbs did launch a final all-out assault on Kosovo's Albanians, air power alone would not be sufficient to stop it…."This outcome was guaranteed by the public announcements by President Clinton that ground troops would not be committed," he added…."

Washington Post 4/13/99 Walter Pincus "...The Department of Energy official who has pressed hardest for action against alleged Chinese spying at nuclear laboratories declared yesterday that his superiors at the department, rather than the Clinton White House, blocked his efforts to tighten security and have a suspect lab employee lose access to secret material. ...But Trulock, DOE's former acting head of intelligence, said President Clinton, in a presidential decision paper in February 1998, adopted reforms that top DOE officials opposed. The most controversial elements, he said, were creation of independent offices in DOE for intelligence and counterintelligence, giving the offices more power through direct access to the secretary of energy and giving them ultimate control over security at all DOE facilities. Those opposing the reforms, Trulock said, were then-Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Moler and an assistant secretary, along with his deputy, who were directly in charge of weapons research.... Trulock, in his testimony, criticized the officials in particular for failing in 1997 to remove Wen Ho Lee, the suspect Los Alamos employee, from access to classified materials, even after FBI Director Louis J. Freeh twice said there was no further need to keep him on his classified job as a way to catch him in the act. "For another 14 months after these warnings," Trulock told the senators, there was continued access to classified information. "I am not sure that we will ever know how much damage has been done to U.S. national security as a result of this inaction." He also accused the DOE officials of trying to bury his findings of possible espionage to protect the budgets of the laboratories before Congress and continued lab-to-lab relations with research facilities in Russia and China. But Trulock's toughest criticism was leveled against the nuclear laboratories themselves, some of which are operated for DOE by the University of California. His experience, he said, raises questions about the "credibility of the laboratories." "They respond with vague and evasive answers and they occasionally lie in response to our legitimate inquiries," he complained...."

Los Angeles Times 4/13/99 Robert Scheer "...Twenty-thousand nuclear weapons left over from the Cold War still stand poised for launching, and the MAD doctrine that guided them is very much in force. Neither the U.S. nor Russia has abandoned nuclear war fighting as the cornerstone of their respective national defense policies. "We still target them with nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert," Butler observed. "The world truly has been transformed, but what has not been transformed is our thinking about it." Russia's political and economic disintegration now threatens our security more by inadvertence than by design, prompting key Cold War military establishment veterans like Butler to sound the alarm: "The Russian command and early warning system is in a state of great decline; about two-thirds of the satellites they relied on for early warning capability are inactive or failing. They're experiencing false alarms now on almost a routine basis, and I shudder to think about the morale and discipline of their rocket forces. There are worrisome aspects to all of that. That's why people like myself are so puzzled and dismayed that our government won't even address the problem." Addressing the problem requires bold leadership on nuclear disarmament that's been sadly lacking in the Clinton years. There have been some cosmetic arrangements with the Russians as to nuclear safety and targeting issues but no real follow-up on arms control measures aggressively pursued by George Bush. Give credit where due: Bush recognized that the end of the Cold War permitted--nay, mandated--that the U.S. set an example by reducing the size and lowering the alert status of its nuclear force. As Butler recalls, "The single most important arms controls were George Bush's unilateral measures back in 1991, which took all of the tactical nuclear weapons off the ships and brought many back from Europe, took the bombers off alert and accelerated the retirement of the Minuteman II force. And Mikhail Gorbachev followed suit. It's ironic that today we have a Republican Congress that thwarts arms control progress, and yet it was a Republican administration that really moved the ball down the field." Clinton has never been very interested in nuclear disarmament, and these days seems bent on alarming the Russian leadership by expanding NATO's membership and military role in Eastern Europe, including a NATO-led war against Russia's neighbor, Yugoslavia.... Boris Yeltsin has his flaws, but humiliating him and undermining more moderate forces in Russia is the path of disaster. In 1995, Yeltsin was awakened in the middle of the night because one branch of his crumbling military had failed to inform another of prior knowledge of a Norwegian rocket launch, which they confused with a U.S. Trident missile. Fortunately, this error was corrected before Yeltsin's 12 minutes of decision-making passed. No wonder Butler is concerned...."

Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph 4/6/99 Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...EXCERPTS "But by any reasonable standard, America's latest round of airstrikes - the U.S. just bombed Iraq last week and in the past few months has fired missiles at Sudanese and Afghan targets - isn't paying off. What seems starkly apparent is that the administration didn't adequately consider all the ramifications of its action and now must muddle through as disturbing events unfold. The CIA warned the president last month that airstrikes might give the Yugoslavs cover to intensify ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanian villages, The Washington Post reported last week. And military officials, the Post wrote, also warned Clinton that airstrikes would not be sufficient to turn back any such ground assault in Kosovo. ......Another unforeseen problem: the perils of bolstering the Kosovo Liberation Army - the ragtag guerilla group that has, in essence, become a NATO ally. The KLA reportedly has Marxist origins as well as ties to Middle Eastern Islamic radicals - which may be raising funds through the heroin trade..."

New Republic 4/19/99 Jason Zengerle "...To that end, PLA officers get escorted around some of America's most modern military facilities. They've toured the U.S.'s most advanced guided missile cruiser and a nuclear attack submarine. They've also watched a Marine amphibious landing and observed Cope Thunder, the U.S. Air Force's sophisticated air combat exercises in Alaska. When PLA officers fly into Fort Hood in Texas, the Pentagon makes sure that they pass over an impressive two-and-a-half-mile stretch of M-1A1 tanks. "That sends a very impressive signal," boasts an administration official. And PLA officers apparently get that signal: Pillsbury notes a more respectful tone in the writings of PLA officers who have visited the United States. But, at the same time that the United States is showing off its massive strength, it's also giving the Chinese a peek at vulnerabilities. For instance, at the Cope Thunder exercises--designed to highlight America's air superiority--the Chinese saw the American dependence on satellites, digital systems, and AWACS aircraft. Accordingly, China is now seeking means to attack American satellites and otherwise disrupt communications. Similarly, it has recently been learned that China is seeking to purchase Russian-made torpedoes that are specifically designed--you guessed it--to explode underneath ships. ..."

Department of Energy: DOE Needs to Improve Controls Over Foreign Visitors to Weapons Laboratories (Chapter Report, 09/25/97, GAO/RCED-97-229). "Data on foreign visitors from individual sensitive countries also showed significant differences among the laboratories. For example,46 percent of the Russian visitors to Livermore were checked during that 3-year period, compared to 10 and 7 percent, respectively, for Los Alamos and Sandia. Furthermore, 39 percent of the Chinese visitors to Livermore were checked, compared to 2 and 1 percent, respectively, for Los Alamos and Sandia. (See app. III for numbersand percentages for all sensitive countries.)"

"Of the 746 foreign visitors from China to the Los Alamos Research Laboratory, only 12 received background checks"..."Moreover, we noted during our review that people with suspected foreign intelligence connections were let into the laboratories without background checks. We were able to document 13 instances where persons with suspected foreign intelligence connections were allowed access without background checks--8 visitors went to LosAlamos and 5 went to Sandia--during the 1994 through 1996 period...."At both Los Alamos and Sandia, unescorted after-hours access to controlled areas has been permitted. These laboratories have required the host to monitor the foreign visitor--that is, be awareof the foreign visitor's location and activities--but not necessarily be physically present. Recently, Sandia revised its after-hours access policy. In November 1996, Sandia no longer allowed foreign nationals to have unescorted after-hours access to controlled areas without the approval of its counterintelligence office. According to Sandia and DOE officials, this change was made because of the potential for security problems that could result from unescorted access. Los Alamos, however, continues to allow unescorted after-hours access to preserve what one official described as an open"campus atmosphere" for researchers at its facilities. "..."

Department of Energy: DOE Needs to Improve Controls Over Foreign Visitors to Weapons Laboratories (Chapter Report, 09/25/97, GAO/RCED-97-229) "Finally, neither Los Alamos nor Sandia has developed security plans--even generic ones--for foreign nationals who will be in controlled areas. The DOE order governing unclassified foreign visits and assignments identifies security plans as the basic means by which vital information is protected and requires they be developed. However, DOE and laboratory officials told us that because of the exception granted by DOE to these two laboratories--which also streamlined requirements for background checks and visit approvals--security plans are no longer required for visits to controlled areas. Livermore has not sought such an exception and requires a generic security plan for all foreign visitors to its controlled areas."..."

ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST 4/8/99 "... I received a call March 23 from a national security source who told me of secret U.S. intelligence that Serb forces were prepared to abduct American troops stationed in Macedonia. I could not confirm the tip, and besides, it seemed inconceivable that the U.S. military would permit this to happen. Wrong indeed. On March 31, three American soldiers were seized along the Macedonia-Kosovo border in an incident drenched with ambiguity and mystery. Sen. John Warner, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has departed from his steadfast support of the U.S.-NATO attacks on Yugoslavia to raise serious questions about what in the world the American troops were doing the day they were taken prisoner. No answers have been given to Warner, but the most haunting question is unasked: Why was the intelligence report on the danger of abduction ignored? The chairman, a former secretary of the Navy and a stalwart friend of the military, did not ask simply because he did not know. The warning was not shared with him...."

Date: 4/9/99 Author: Paul Sperry Investor's Business Daily "...The administration waited until last month to fire the alleged spy - only after the press broke the story. It hasn't yet charged him with any wrongdoing. More, the White House didn't order the labs to beef up security until last year. Why didn't officials give the case top priority? Some suspect it conflicted with a higher priority: Selling the global test ban to China and other nuclear states. ''They wanted to get them on board by exchanging this new (virtual-testing) technology in the spirit of scientific fraternity and openness,'' said former Reagan Defense official Frank Gaffney. In the process, he says, the labs have left themselves open to espionage by countries like China that remain hell- bent on making their nuclear missile arsenals more, not less, lethal. ''In creating much more of an academic environment, the labs probably went too far - at least more than makes old weapons guys comfortable,'' said Troy Wade, a former Reagan Energy official in charge of nuclear weapons. An ex-O'Leary aide said her open-door policy angered some Pentagon officials who ''feared security breaches.'' Looking back, he says, they were right. Clinton, who stands by his denuclearization policy, argues that the Los Alamos leak predated his watch. He said ''security procedures were too weak for years and years and years.'' .....But former officials note the problems accelerated under Clinton. Recent GAO and internal Energy reports concur. ''What's happened over the past six years makes the sort of generic problems we've always had with the labs pale by comparison,'' said Gaffney, who specialized in arms control policy at the Pentagon and now heads the Center for Security Policy in Washington.

Investor's Business Daily 4/12/99 Paul Sperry "…At the same time China builds more lethal nuclear missiles - using U.S. technology - America's nuclear arsenal collects dust. It's been 10 years since the nation built a new missile, and seven since it tested old ones….In fact, the Pentagon can't be sure existing missiles even work. And it won't be sure until around 2010, when weapons testing is scheduled to resume. Even then it's iffy. Scientists at the nation's nuclear labs won't be able to blow up bombs in the Nevada desert to spot bugs and perfect designs as they've done for 50 years. President Clinton banned that for ''virtual testing,'' which uses computers to simulate detonations. But virtual testing is itself virtual. At this point, it's just a theory. Scientists will need another 10 years - and billions of dollars in new equipment -to come up with the massive number of computations to mimic a real nuclear blast. All this worries some national security experts. They fear the administration hasn't taken post-Cold War nuclear threats seriously enough. As America's nuclear edge grows duller by the day, they point out, China's gets sharper…. By not testing, ''you also preclude the introduction of new weapons into the inventory,'' Gaffney added. It's just too risky to mix untried designs into the arsenal, he explains. "

4/10/99 Freeper Yaya123 "…Elizabeth M. Moler was personally responsible for stiffing the Cox committee. Now Bill Cohen is nominating her to be Secretary of the Air Force….. Read the following NYTIMES article to understand why Elizabeth Moler must not be the next Sec. of the Air Force: NYTIMES, March 6....""In July 1998, the House Intelligence Committee requested an update on the case, officials said. Trulock forwarded the request in a memo to, and in conversations with, Elizabeth Moler, then acting energy secretary. Ms. Moler ordered him not to brief the House panel for fear that the information would be used to attack the president's China policy, according to an account he later gave congressional investigators. Ms. Moler, now a Washington lawyer, says she does not remember the request to allow Trulock to brief Congress and denies delaying the process. In October, Ms. Moler, then deputy secretary, stopped Trulock from delivering written testimony on espionage activities in the labs to a closed session of the House National SecurityCommittee. Ms. Moler told Trulock to rewrite his testimony to limit it to the announced subject of the hearing, foreign visitors to the labs, an Energy Department spokeswoman said. The issue came up nonetheless when committee members asked follow-up questions, Energy Department officials said. Key lawmakers began to learn about the extent of the Chinese theft of U.S. nuclear secrets late in 1998, when a selectcommittee investigating the transfers of sensitive U.S. technology to China, chaired by Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., heard from Trulock…."

WorldNet Daily 4/12/99 Geoff Metcalf "... To compound the sin of the Clinton administration, the "unintended consequences" were forewarned. The CIA and the Pentagon both provided advice and counsel that could and should have prevented what could turn into World War III. However, notwithstanding the lessons which SHOULD have been learned from failing to accept advice from experts, the arrogant, myopic bumblers again rejected the counsel of the professionals -- and now seem surprised. John Ruskin once said, "Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own." Truth has become the first casualty of this NATO aggression. Once again, we see petty myopia obfuscating reality and common (regrettably all too uncommon) sense. Seeking truth has become an almost impossible task. I saw a chilling headline recently that stated, "The Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column." Mainstream media has become a co-conspirator with the administration to shape, mold, and spin information, which is designed to defend, rationalize and validate policy, and action which is bad, wrong, and probably criminal..... Conversely, in this modern age of instant communication, commanders have the added challenge of denying combat intelligence to the bad guys. Hell, Saddam Hussein was sitting in his bunker watching CNN for contemporaneous combat intelligence. The grinding out of truth is becoming increasingly difficult. OUR media underreports bad news. Daily, (through the Internet) we are exposed to Greek newspapers overstating casualties. All the time, the elusive truth languishes somewhere between the yin and yang. The tragedy of the Balkans is real. However, it has been, is, and will sadly continue. Regarding those who "don't want to be confused with facts which contradict their preconceived opinions," it should be noted that the Serbian/Ethnic Albanian conflict is in reality merely an extension of the Crusades. However, this time, the defensive NATO, has for the first time in its 50-year history, acted as the aggressor, AND has allied in a religious war against the Christians. Even Cecil Rhodes and Clinton's old Professor Carroll Quigley have to be rolling in their graves over this brain flatulence masquerading as policy....."

AP Jim Abrams 4/15/99 "...Energy Department officials acknowledged Thursday they withheld information from a House subcommittee last fall on an alleged Chinese spying case. A department intelligence officer said he was told by the deputy energy secretary not to talk about the case, a charge the senior agency official denied. ``We are very upset,'' said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services military procurement subcommittee. He said the two officials, testifying under oath in a closed session in October, dodged specific questions about spying activities at the department's national weapons laboratories. ``I apologize,'' said Notra Trulock, the agency's special adviser for intelligence. He said he acted at the behest of then-Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Moler, who also testified at the hearing, when he did not discuss the investigation into possible Chinese espionage at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Trulock said Moler also edited written testimony he had prepared for the hearing to delete references to counterintelligence operations. Moler denied editing the testimony and said she only instructed Trulock to limit his comments to the subject of the national labs' foreign visitor program. She said then-Secretary Federico Pena had decided that, because of the particularly sensitive nature of the case, briefings to Congress should be limited to the House and Senate intelligence committees. She said that was a common practice and that she had advised Trulock to follow that policy. ``With the benefit of hindsight, we should have been more responsive,'' she said. ..."

Executive Order 13117 4/5/99 Vol 64 Number 64 Clinton "...Executive Order 13117 of March 31, 1999 Further Amendment to Executive Order 12981, as Amended By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America and in order to further the implementation of the reorganization of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) into the Department of State, in this instance by eliminating ACDA's vote on dual-use export license decisions in the administration of export controls, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12981, as amended (``Executive Order 12981''), is further amended as follows..."

The New Yorker (via www.jya.com) 4/5/99 Seymour Hersh "...Last December, after Saddam Hussein threatened to end seven years of United Nations arms-control inspections, President Clinton ordered American attacks on Iraq. Once again, the world watched, on television, as missiles fell on carefully picked targets. The purpose of the attacks, Clinton told reporters, was to "degrade" Iraq's capacity for waging war, and he added, "I gave the order because I believe we cannot allow Saddam Hussein to dismantle UNSCOM and resume the production of weapons of mass destruction with impunity." The President was mistaken. The United Nations Special Commission for Iraq, known as UNSCOM, had already been effectively dismantled, by the shortsighted policies of his own Administration. Then, a few hours after Clinton spoke, William Cohen, the Secretary of Defense, appeared on television. "One thing should be absolutely clear," he told reporters. "We are concentrating on military targets." That, too, was a misstatement, for two of the targets were sites where Saddam was known to entertain mistresses, and they were specifically struck in the hope of assassinating him. Saddam responded to the bombing--and the bungled assassination attempt--by formally ousting UNSCOM and turning anew to Russia, historically his most important trading partner. Today, eight years after the Gulf War, American policy has collapsed in Iraq, and a Cold War mentality has returned. Saddam is unchecked by U.N. inspectors as he pursues his goal of becoming a nuclear power, with the aid of Russian strategic materials. Saddam's ally in these efforts is Yevgeny Primakov, the Russian Prime Minister, a longtime friend who, according to highly classified communications intelligence, received at least one large payment from Iraq--by wire transfer--in November of 1997. The distrust of Primakov throughout the American intelligence community is acute. One former C.I.A. operative told me, "I don't know how many times we had to say this to Strobe"--Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State--"but Primakov is just not a good guy." ..."

The Guardian (UK) 4/19/99 Julian Borger Richard Norton-Taylor "... Evidence emerging on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday showed that Nato entered the Kosovo conflict critically underestimating Serbian resolve in the face of Nato airstrikes, which now appear to be nowhere near achieving their objectives. CIA assessments before the bombing began predicted that President Slobodan Milosevic would give in at the first show of hi-tech military might. Leaked US documents show that US intelligence underestimated the Serbian leader's tenacity. A report in January that drew together intelligence gathered by various agencies under the patronage of the CIA gave the upbeat conclusion that Mr Milosevic had no stomach for a war that he could not win. 'After enough of a defence to sustain his honour and assuage his backers he will quickly sue for peace,' it said...."

Freeper Sawdrig 4/23/99 MENL reports "...Scientists from Iran and Iraq, countries believed to be seeking intermediate ballistic missile and nuclear weapons, are permitted to tour leading U.S. weapons laboratories, a House chairman says. Fred Upton, chairman of the House Commerce Committee Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, said he was stunned by testimony over the ease in which foreign scientists are allowed access to facilities and information that will help the weapons program of nations hostile to the United States. "I must say that one particular area stands out in my mind," Upton said in a Tuesday hearing, "the fact that thousands of foreign scientists from countries such as China, Cuba, Iran, and Iraq are permitted to visit our most sensitive weapon laboratories and have fairly unrestricted exchanges with our scientists -- including those working on matters that, while technically unclassified, are immensely useful to the weapon programs of foreign nations with potentially hostile intent towards the United States or its friends and allies around the world." ...."

Capitol Hill Blue 4/19/99 Doug Thompson "...Senior Pentagon officials have warned President Clinton his Kosovo war is destined to turn into a long conflict that could end up costing the United States more than $100 billion along with hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of American casualties, military sources say. Budget planners are also warning Clinton that a prolonged, expensive war could wipe out the federal budget surplus, threaten the solvency of Social Security and plunge the country into a recession. Although Clinton is asking Congress for $5.9 billion in emergency spending for the Kosovo war, the real cost will be more than 20 times that.....Among the projections presented to the White House: A combined air-ground campaign lasting two-to-five years at a cost of more than $100 billion; Increased American casualties in a ground conflict ranging from "several hundred" to "several thousand;" An increasing possibility that some NATO allies(such as France and Italy) could drop out of the coalition, leaving the U.S. and Britain to fight the war alone; An increasing possibility that Russia could enter the war on Yugoslavia's side; No guarantees that, even with ground troops, the war could be won. Military experts dismissed claims by Assistant Secretary of Defense Strobe Talbot Sunday that the Kosovo war is winnable in the air. "Talbot is spinning," says intelligence analyst Sander Owen. "The White House was told from the beginning this thing couldn't be won in the air."....Owen said the US has few options left...."

PRNewswire 4/25/99 "...According to the Energy Department's own figures, the country's nuclear facilities have lost track of more than 5,000 pounds -- two and a half tons -- of plutonium, and at the Rocky Flats weapons factory near Denver alone, officials acknowledge to Newsweek, some 2,400 pounds of plutonium is unaccounted for. Newsweek has also learned that Rocky Flats failed a sophisticated computer program designed to simulate terrorist attacks against each of the country's nuclear labs. Other facilities, including Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, also fared poorly on security checks.....The Energy Department suggests that "inventory differences," the result of the material getting stuck in pipes and manufacturing tools, are responsible for the missing plutonium. Even so, the Department's latest declassified report rated security at three prominent installations -- Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge -- as "marginal," providing only "questionable assurance" that the material was safeguarded closely enough. In the words of a former security agent at one of the nuclear labs, protective measures at Rocky Flats were so lax, "it [was] like having a window in a bank vault."....In 80 percent of the simulations, the attackers were able to get through the razor wire and security checks and walk out with enough plutonium to build a nuclear bomb -- or poison millions of people with the radioactive dust...."

The American Spectator 5/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...One of the more shocking details I uncovered in my investigation of China's California networks was that a front company owned by the PLA's largest weapons manufacturer had set up shop directly above the CIA office responsible for contacts with U.S. aerospace manufacturers in the Los Angeles area, where some of the agency's most secret projects have been developed. The Chinese operated there for more than two years without the CIA ever knowing, U.S. law enforcement officers in the L.A. area told me. Given what we are now beginning to learn from the W-88 spy case, this monumental security lapse seems not an accident but a natural consequence of the Clinton administration policy. Deputy National Security Advisor Gary Samore, the official put in charge of the W-88 investigation at the White House, revealed the administration's attitude to Chinese spying when he spoke to a group of national security experts and reporters at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, D.C. on March 17. "China's strategic capabilities are quite limited," and include "less than two dozen long-range systems" capable of reaching the United States, Samore explained. "But if our policy convinces China that we are a threat, then that increases the possibility that China will devote the resources to significantly expand their strategic capabilities, and it is not in our interest to see that happen." The priority, then, is reassuring China, not protecting our military secrets. ..."

AP 4/27/99 Michelle Williams "...Energy Secretary Bill Richardson says security has been improved at U.S. nuclear facilities and should prevent any more classified information about nuclear weapons from reaching the Chinese..... Richardson acknowledged that security had been lax at U.S. nuclear facilities over the past few years, despite a presidential directive to tighten it. ``Secrets were compromised,'' said Richardson, who became energy secretary last August. ``They were compromised and accelerated China's nuclear development.'' He said that kind of information theft ``will not happen again.'' Scientists who work on sensitive weapons now undergo polygraph tests; the counter-intelligence budget has tripled over the past few years, and background checks are required on scientists from sensitive countries, he said. Two weeks ago, Richardson said, he ordered a shutdown of DOE computers linked to nuclear weapons information so that their security could be measured and upgraded....."

Freeper ohmlaw98 4/29/99 reports on Los Alamos National Lab Director John Browne answers employee questions. EMPLOYEE Q. #3: There has been a great deal of publicity recently on the "Theft of the Secrets of the W88." Many of us wonder what happened, and what we can do to prevent this kind of thing happening again. Are there things that we should be on the lookout for to prevent this sort of thing happening again. Is there any way, without compromising security, that you can have a briefing, either classified or unclassified, to bring LANL employees up to speed on this? DIRECTOR BROWNE: I appreciate your concern. In the meantime, I sent an All-Employee memo on March 16 regarding this situation and we had an open meeting with DOE Undersecretary Moniz and his colleagues on March 19, which was followed by a press conference that was carried live on Labnet. More recently, there have been all-employees memos on computer security and foreign travel to sensitive countries. Your question about what we can do to prevent this kind of thing happening again is more difficult to answer. Although there have been recent media accounts alleging "lax security" and possible espionage activities at Los Alamos, this situation involves a classified Congressional report and an ongoing Federal investigation, so we cannot really know at this time what the status of this situation is. Thus there is not a lot of specific information I can share with you. However, I can give you some general advice: Attend the annual security briefings so you keep up to date on security issues, and if you see something that makes you feel uncomfortable with respect to security don't hesitate to discuss it with your supervisor or refer it to the appropriate security office. Thank you for your interest; this is a serious issue for all of us. (Question received 3/10/99)..." ohmlaw98 asks "...Why has the director of the lab not been briefed on the status of the situation?..."

Washington Weekly 5/2/99 RICKI MAGNUSSEN AND MARVIN LEE "...QUESTION: So you think that Clinton is close to the Chinese military? TIMPERLAKE: think the Chinese military penetrated to the highest level of the Clinton administration including the White House. QUESTION: But the question is if president Clinton is an innocent, ignorant victim, or is he actually working on their behalf? TIMPERLAKE: Here it comes: Ng Lap Sen, A communist Chinese official who also owns the Fortuna hotel in Macao and wired millions to Charlie Trie showed up not only in the White House but in the White House residence. Now that's a powerful statement. A communist Chinese official gangster wiring millions, his minion is a gangster who offered a bribe to the president through the president's legal defense fund. Two days after Ng Lap Sen enters the country with $75,000 in cash he's in the residence of the White House. So president Clinton has no willful blindness or deniability. He was there, he met with the fellow apparently six additional times. QUESTION: But the question is if he really knew who this was? TIMPERLAKE: Well, here's the argument: the Secret Service has as their sacred trust to protect the integrity and security of the President of the United States and the security of our leader, I mean the Commander-in-Chief. They would have to have known who this person was. There's no doubt in my mind that they knew exactly who this person was and the only person who could clear him in was the President of The United States. That's it. QUESTION: So you think that president Clinton is actually working on their behalf. TIMPERLAKE: He actually cleared this person in, because I trust the integrity and judgment of the FBI and the Secret Service. Here's the rule: Intelligence goes up and out, that's the rule of intelligence. When you get it, it goes up through the chain of command and out to the users, that's how it is. I trust the integrity of the FBI and the Secret Service. They would do due diligence, they are not weak on that, and they would brief the president or the people around him, on how bad these people were....."

The Center for Security Policy 4/26/99 No. 99-D 48 "...On 17 April 1995, President Clinton lent his authority to an "openness" initiative championed by Mrs. O'Leary, the current White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta, and then-NSC staffer Morton Halperin(3) with his signature of Executive Order 12958. This order called for the automatic declassification by 17 April 2000 of all documents containing historical information that are 25 years or older...... The practical effect of Executive Order 12958, however, has been greatly to abbreviate the time and necessarily to diminish the care with which classified documents are scrutinized prior to their release to the public. Leading Senators were horrified to learn last year that Restricted Data (and "Formerly Restricted Data") governed by the Atomic Energy Act were being hastily thrown out with the bath-water as officials were not being given the time or resources to declassify sensitive documents on a page-by-page basis.(4) Instead, it had to be done by the box, if not by the shelf. Mr. Podesta, apparently infuriated at any interference with the declassification initiative, instructed Secretary Richardson to have Ms. Gottemoeller reprimand a senior DOE bureaucrat, Joseph Mahaley, for encouraging Congress to intervene. (The personnel action -- which would, among other things, have denied Mr. Mahaley an expected performance bonus -- was quietly withdrawn after he threatened legal action.) ..."

The Center for Security Policy 4/26/99 No. 99-D 48 "...Among those who has had the unenviable task of dealing with the deleterious consequences of this sort of security malpractice is Notra Trulock. Until the Cox committee's findings about Chinese espionage at Los Alamos came to light, Mr. Trulock was Chief of Intelligence at DOE. When his years of warning about the penetration of some of the United States' most sensitive facilities -- warnings that were suppressed by, among other superiors, Rose Gottemoeller, to whom the intelligence office reported until a reorganization last Fall -- were publicly vindicated, Mr. Trulock was demoted and his future at the Department seems in jeopardy..... Just last week, Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller took another personnel action, this time against Edward McCallum, a retired Army colonel who heads DOE's Office of Security and Safeguards. In that capacity, he has worked tirelessly to call attention, including in unclassified official reports, to the dangerous decline in the security of critical sites in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Apparently panicked at the mounting evidence that Mr. McCallum's heretofore unheeded alarms were becoming a serious embarrassment to the Department of Energy, Ms. Gottemoeller summarily on 19 April effectively fired him. On the basis of transparently trumped up charges that Col. McCallum, of all people, was handling classified information indiscreetly, Ms. Gottemoeller has placed him in the bureaucratic equivalent of limbo -- on indefinite, unappealable administrative leave with pay.

Washington Weekly 5/2/99 RICKI MAGNUSSEN AND MARVIN LEE "...QUESTION: Are you concerned that the most significant revelations will be redacted before release? TIMPERLAKE: It doesn't matter, you can assume the worst! It's all over! The worst has already happened. You have to work the worst case scenario. The People's Republic of China now has every nuclear secret America has and that's a serious issue! It's not only how to build the bombs, how to test the bombs, what happens when you go down the wrong path, what is the right path, what gets you strategically more "bang for your buck." No, it's all over, truly. The worst has happened. Bill Clinton on his watch stifled investigations, stepped on individuals, his administration stepped on these individuals who were trying to do the right thing and save the world and--I don't mean to be overly dramatic--but to save the world from some very nasty countries having access to nuclear secrets and the individuals who stepped up were told not to talk to congress. They were basically told that they couldn't present their case, they were discredited, they were demoted and that's a serious charge...."

The Center for Security Policy 4/26/99 No. 99-D 48 "...Lately, it seems that scarcely a day goes by without some new revelation about serious security problems at the Department of Energy (DOE) -- or the Clinton Administration's lack of seriousness about addressing them competently. Less obvious, but no less troubling, are the steps the Administration is taking to punish conscientious DOE employees who have been raising alarms about these problems. Much of the blame for the present mess appears to lie with President Clinton's first Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary.(1) Mrs. O'Leary made no secret of her hostility to her Department's most important function -- maintaining the Nation's strategic deterrent and the thermonuclear weaponry that underpins it. While she has mercifully been gone from office for three years, the legacy of the gaggle of anti-nuclear activists O'Leary recruited to staff senior DOE positions and the "denuclearization" and "openness" policies that she and they promulgated together linger on. In fact, just last month, the current Secretary of Energy, Bill Richardson, succeeded in sneaking through the Senate the nomination of an advocate of the abolition of nuclear weapons to serve as Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security. This dark-of-night operation is all the more outrageous in light of the mounting evidence that this appointee, Rose Gottemoeller,(2) is implicated in a number of the security scandals now coming to light -- and the personnel actions being taken against the whistle-blowers....Two further O'Leary "openness" initiatives contributed to the circumstances under which the penetration of U.S. nuclear facilities by Communist China, among others, has occurred during the present administration. ....First, Mrs. O'Leary banned personnel badges that clearly indicated whether the bearer had a security clearance and, if so, how high. Her reasoning: Such badges were discriminatory. And second, she ended the practice of requiring reports to DOE headquarters about foreign nationals from "sensitive countries" who visited the unclassified areas of the Nation's nuclear weapons laboratories....."

The Center for Security Policy 4/26/99 No. 99-D 48 "...On 17 April 1995, President Clinton lent his authority to an "openness" initiative championed by Mrs. O'Leary, the current White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta, and then-NSC staffer Morton Halperin(3) with his signature of Executive Order 12958. This order called for the automatic declassification by 17 April 2000 of all documents containing historical information that are 25 years or older......"

"Committee members grilled FBI Director Louis J. Freeh about why the 1982 call was not investigated further" v "After the FBI confronted Lee about the call, he cooperated with the agency and later passed a polygraph examination in which he denied involvement in any espionage activity, the official said." - Washington Post 5/2/99 Vernon Loeb "....

Washington Times 4/30/99 Editorial Board "..... For several years, the Justice Department obstructed the FBI's efforts to detect Mr. Lee's downloading activities Mr. Lee, who was fired in March, emerged more than three years ago as the primary suspect in an espionage case in which China acquired design information about America's most sophisticated nuclear warhead, the W-88, which is deployed on the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile...."

Washington Times 4/30/99 Editorial Board "..... Energy Department counterintelligence officials identified Mr. Lee as a major suspect in February 1996, noting that his travels to China made him stick out "like a sore thumb." For reasons that are virtually impossible to fathom, however, the FBI did not learn of Mr. Lee's massive downloading activities until last month, more than three years after he became the primary suspect in an espionage case that the CIA's chief of counterintelligence regarded as "far more damaging to national security than [Soviet spy] Aldrich Ames." ..."

Washington Times 4/30/99 Editorial Board "...Attorney General Reno's Justice Department is far more culpable for this catastrophic national-security debacle. Time and again, the New York Times reports, the Justice Department declined to pursue FBI requests for wiretaps. Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy Review would have been required to petition a special court to obtain either a wiretap of Mr. Lee's phone or to gain surreptitious access to his office computer. Despite Mr. Lee's role as the principal espionage suspect, Miss Reno's Justice Department declined a 1997 FBI request for a wiretap and surreptitious access to Mr. Lee's office computer. Justice's Office of Intelligence Policy Review maintained there was insufficient evidence for it to seek the necessary court permission The FBI appealed that decision to Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, the second-highest Justice Department official. Mr. Holder also denied the request to pursue the wiretaps...."

Washington Times 4/30/99 Editorial Board "...in 1997, while President Clinton was pursuing his "strategic partnership" with China, not only was the FBI investigating Chinese nuclear espionage but congressional committees and an incompetent Justice Department task force were investigating Mr. Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign and the Democratic Party for receiving laundered money from the Chinese Communist government. Miss Reno repea