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Abbreviations:
Iran-Iraq Arms Nonproliferation Act (IIANA)
Arms Export Control Act (AECA)
Export Administration Act (EAR)
Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act (NPPA)
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
Nonproliferation Treaty (NT)
Export-Import Bank Act (EIBA)

"…In late 1995 and early 1996, Trulock and his team took their findings to the FBI….This suspect "stuck out like a sore thumb," said one official…. By April 1996, the Energy Department decided to brief the White House. A group of senior officials including Trulock sat down with Sandy Berger, then Clinton's deputy national security adviser, to tell him that China appeared to have acquired the W-88 and that a spy for China might still be at Los Alamos…By June the FBI formally opened a criminal investigation into the theft of the W-88 design. But the inquiry made little progress over the rest of the year…. The bureau maintained tight control over the case…. "New York Times 3/06/99 Jeff Gerth

Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral, became the largest individual donor to Democrats.

Chung visited the White House 49 times http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

Clinton/Gore repeatedly attended fund-raisers with wealthy foreign investors.

Loral's military business was sold to Lockheed Martin.

Unprecedented pressure from the White House on COSCO, "We'd never had a phone call like that in this office before" Lee Keatinge of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Lt. General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commander of the Academy of Military Sciences in Beijing: "[As for the United States], for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance ... We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."

An Air Force intelligence analysis prepared by Maj. Gen. John Cosciano - concluded that the report given to Beijing by satellite builders, including Loral, provided rocket guidance improvements under the guise of questions. The questions spelled out directions on how to overcome guidance and control failures.

A CIA report said China concluded an agreement to sell gyroscopes, accelerometers and test equipment to an arm of Iran's Defense Industries Organization. The equipment is used for building and testing missile guidance components. The CIA said the China Precision Engineering Institute had been discussing the transfer for two years.

Documents show Los Alamos officials took 11 trips to China in 1995 and 1996. Several of the visits took place during the tenure of Federico Pena as energy secretary. Pena assured Congress there were no ongoing discussions about nuclear weapons matters. [Freeper Sakida notes that Frederico Pena became Secretary of Energy in March of 1997]

The United Nations endorsed [the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty] and Clinton signed it. It's up to the Senate to ratify it. Knowing a permanent test ban was a death sentence for the stockpile, nuclear weapons labs kicked against it - until Clinton promised the billions of dollars needed to move to a science-based testing program. So Stockpile Stewardship was born. 4/9/99 Paul Sperry Investor's Business Daily

In 1996, former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary said, ''We have made the U.S. safer by moving toward a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty."… If you're alarmed now by the reports of top-secret weapons data escaping from Los Alamos and Livermore, just wait until all that info is stored in computers designed to test weapons' performance, experts warn. At that point, ''you have effectively taken out of the hands of a relatively small, easily policed, generally highly patriotic and security-minded group of people the most sensitive information of all about nuclear weapons designs and phenomena, and put it into databases that are widely shared,'' Gaffney said. ''That is simply a formula for disaster.'' …" 4/9/99 Paul Sperry Investor's Business Daily

The number of unclassified foreign visits to the DOE research laboratories increased each of the first 3 years of the Clinton Administration, to a level of about 7,000 visits in 1996. (GAO/RCED-97-229)

China was illegally pouring millions of dollars into Clinton's re-election effort, it was also funneling huge amounts of cash to Panamanian politicians to ensure that one of its front companies, Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, could move in when we vacate. - Adm. Moorer THE NEW AMERICAN Freeper report dated 4/11/99

FBI agents from the bureau's Albuquerque field office wanted to search the computer but were told they needed a search warrant from a secret federal court under the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. The warrant was denied, the official said, because of a lack of evidence showing that Lee was engaged in acts of espionage. Washington Post 4/29/99 Vernon Loeb and Walter Pincus

John Browne, the director of the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico, told a Senate hearing Wednesday that as early as 1996 laboratory officials suggested to the FBI, which had just begun investigating Lee, that the Taiwanese-born scientist's computer be searched. They argued they could do so under a 1995 policy directive that advises all lab employees that their computers are subject to search without notice. "The FBI and the Department of Justice felt that the policy was not adequate (and) ... that if we proceeded independently, anything that was found they could not use'' in court, Browne told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Associated Press 5/5/99 H. Josef Hebert

Two years after the exceptions were implemented, the GAO reported than the annual number of foreign visitors increased 55% since 1986, the number of visitors from sensitive countries increased 225% since 1993 and 93% of those came from China, India, Israel, Taiwan and the states of the former Soviet Union. The DOE only required background checks on visitors from sensitive countries who were on assignment or involved in sensitive subjects or secure areas, but it has permitted two laboratories to omit background checks for visitors on assignment. GAO/T-RCED-96-260

DOE - Between 1992 and 1996, according to agency records, annual security inspections performed at DOE sites by the evaluations office dropped from 13 to three. USA Today 5/19/99 Peter Eisler

Months after top DOE officials learned of Lee's activities, the department shelved a plan for new guidelines that might have helped block data transfers from classified computers. "It dealt with issues like how to track who's removing information from systems and who would have to be physically present if anybody was in a facility with classified systems," says Woody Hall, the department's chief information officer until last year and a main architect of the proposal. "The labs were very vocal in opposing it. ... We couldn't overcome the objections." - USA Today 5/19/99 Peter Eisler

According to the Cox Report, in 1996, Hong Kong Customs officials removed a fully operational AA-11 from the cargo hold of a Chinese owned airliner stuffed with paying passengers. What the Cox Report did not relay to the American public was that the missile was in a box mis-labeled as "Machine Parts". What the Cox Report withheld was that the airliner was owned jointly by the Chinese government and Clinton buddy-billionaire, Moctar Riady. What the Cox Report did not release was the Chinese missile was bound for Israel and was to be upgraded with stolen U.S. Sidewinder technology…..- Softwar 7/20/99 Charles Smith

Insight has learned that a covert operation run by the CIA and National Security Council, or NSC, last year resulted in providing Beijing with missile hardware and software including programming and targeting capabilities and guidance systems, according to sources familiar with that operation. The NSC supposedly arranged the deal to set up a disinformation campaign in which future U.S. data might be used to disrupt Chinese intelligence, the sources say. "This was real-time data--gone--maybe 10, 20, 30 billion dollars' worth of technology," one source says. "The thought was that we had to give away some good stuff for them to take the bad stuff." - Insight Magazine 5/26/97

How vulnerable are U.S. defense computers? An unclassified GAO report ordered in 1996 by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee warns there were 250,000 hacker attacks in 1995, of which 65 percent were successful penetrations. In addition, it says, 120 countries are capable of breaking into 2.1 million U.S. defense computers. Two Dutch hackers successfully tapped into computers during the Persian Gulf War and learned the precise locations of troop deployments. They then attempted to sell the classified information to Saddam Hussein, who turned it down because he thought it was a U.S. trick, according to the report. "At a minimum, these attacks are a multimillion-dollar nuisance to defense," the GAO report states. "At worst, they are a serious threat to national security." - Insight Magazine 5/26/97

"…In early 1996 Trulock traveled to CIA headquarters to tell officials there of the evidence his team had gathered on the apparent Chinese theft of U.S. nuclear designs…. As Trulock gathered his charts and drawings and wrapped up his top-secret briefing, the agency's chief spy hunter, Paul Redmond, sat stunned…. "This is going to be just as bad as the Rosenbergs," Redmond recalled saying. The evidence that so alarmed him had surfaced a year earlier…. From what they could tell, Beijing was testing a smaller and more lethal nuclear device configured remarkably like the W-88, the most modern, miniaturized warhead in the U.S. arsenal. In April 1995, they brought their findings to Trulock….In June 1995, they were told, a Chinese official gave CIA analysts what appeared to be a 1988 Chinese government document describing the country's nuclear weapons program. The document, a senior official said, specifically mentioned the W-88 and described some of the warhead's key design features…" New York Times 3/06/99 Jeff Gerth

The United States received a startling report from one of its Chinese spies. Officials inside China's intelligence service, the spy said, were boasting that they had just stolen secrets from the United States and had used them to improve Beijing's neutron bomb, according to American officials

January, 1996
Reports of China's export of nuclear technology to Pakistan and missiles to Iran caused considerable concern in Congress and the Pentagon

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, facing pending indictment for shady business dealings by an IC appointed by Janet Reno, hires hotshot Washington lawyer Reid Weingarten.

Nolanda Hill (Well-known mistress of Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown) swears under oath (In late 1997) that in early 1996 Ron Brown showed her Commerce Department documents signed by Melissa Moss of the Office of Business Liaison that proved the department's trade missions were being used for partisan political fundraising. She also said she told Brown he should fire Moss because of this and that he said he would speak to her about it. He died in an April plane crash before she had the chance to see him again. – Judicial Watch

John Huang (Since positively identified as a Communist Chinese spy by the FBI) leaves Clinton's Commerce department to join the (DNC) Democratic National Committee as a senior fundraiser.

1993 David Watkins (Previous WH director of administration) memo surfaces implicating Hillary in the firing of WH travel office staff. Hillary had previously denied having any part in the firings.

WH announces the mysteriously reappearing/disappearing Rose law firm billing records have been found -- laying openly on a table in the residence quarters -- two years after they were subpeonaed by Starr. The docs contradicted Hillary's claim she did not do legal work for the now-defunct Madison Guaranty S&L.

In early 1996 (DOE) Department of Energy intelligence official Notra Trulock tells CIA officials about an apparent Chinese theft of U.S. nuclear designs. As Trulock gathered his charts and drawings and wrapped up his top-secret briefing, the agency's chief spy hunter, Paul Redmond, sat stunned.

Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary would later come under investigation for trading access for contributions to chartible groups she favored. The money ($25,000) was originally from Chinese sources and given to her by DNC money man Johnny Chung. Reno refused to appoint an IC in 12/1997.

In late 1995 and early 1996, Trulock took his findings to the FBI. A team of FBI and Energy Department officials traveled to the three weapons labs and pored over travel and work records of lab scientists who had access to the relevant technology. By February they had narrowed its focus to five possible suspects.

Hillary is subpoenaed to testify before the federal grand jury about the billing records.

James Carville makes famous "drag a $100 bill through a trailer park" remark (In regards to Paula Jones).

1993 David Watkins (Previous WH director of administration) memo surfaces implicating Hillary in the firing of White House travel office staff headed by Billy Dale -- Since the Kennedy administration. Clinton pal and Hollywood producer Harry Thomason owned part of an air-charter business that was interested in taking over the travel office operation. Hillary had previously denied having any part in the firings.

Clinton pal and former U.S. Assistant Attorney General under Janet Reno, Webster Hubbell, is questioned at Congress' Whitewater hearings about $500,000 + payment he received from DNC donors and Indonesian billionaire and Clinton pal (Since early 1980s Arkansas), Mochtar Riady. Hubbell refused to explain what work he did for the money. John Huang worked for Riady's Lippo Bank just prior to joining Clinton's Commerce Department. The FBI suspects Mochtar Riady and his son James are Chinese agents.

White House announces the mysteriously reappearing/disappearing Rose law firm billing records have been found -- laying openly on a table in the residence quarters -- two years after they were subpoenaed by Starr. The documents contradicted Hillary's claim she did not do legal work for the now-defunct Madison Guaranty S&L.

Justice Department lawyers inform Elizabeth Mann, a recent Chinese immigrant who is the Arizona executive of American-based Communist Chinese corporate giant COFCO, that she is a target of a grand jury investigation for failing to report income by using foreign bank accounts opened in the name of fictitious offshore entities. Janet Reno's Justice Department would later have the investigation into her finances terminated.

The Senators [Shelby, Kyl, Smith] added [in a 7/98 letter to Sandy Berger]: "Our information is that the Secretary of Energy was made aware of [the improper release during declassification of sensitive data] in December 1995 and again in January 1996. The National Security Council staff was also briefed in January 1996. No remedial action was taken as a result of these meetings. In our opinion, this lack of action may be a very serious infraction of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954." - Gaffney's Web Site 4/99

Controls on supercomputer sales to the PRC were dramatically liberalized - new regulations allowed license-free sales of even faster machines to "civilian" entities, with no safeguards to ensure the machines were not used for military purposes - The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman

Cabrera is busted in Miami smuggling three tons of cocaine.

Justice Department lawyers inform Elizabeth Mann, a recent Chinese immigrant who is the Arizona executive of American-based Communist Chinese corporate giant COFCO, that she is a target of a grand jury investigation for failing to report income by using foreign bank accounts opened in the name of fictitious offshore entities. Janet Reno's Justice Department would later have the investigation into her finances terminated.

* Moscow confirms it is now in violation of another key component of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty. Gen. Dmitri Kharchenko tells Interfax that Russia failed to meet the December 31 deadline to destroy tanks, armor, and other weapons based east of the Ural mountains. Kharchenko says more money is needed to comply. Russia is also violating the CFE's provisions against massing troops and heavy weapons near Norway, Finland, the Baltic states, and Turkey.Russia Reform Monitor, No. 86. Jan. 4, 1996

* Iran's pending purchase of 12 Tupolev-154 airliners and a deal to build a Russian-designed plant to manufacture Ilyushin-114 aircraft domestically will increase Teheran's debt to Moscow from $500 million to $1.2 billion, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reports. This figure does not count the $800 million nuclear reactor deal. Russia Reform Monitor, No. 86. Jan. 4, 1996

* START II faces a Senate challenge. Senators James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) and Robert Smith (R-New Hampshire) inform Majority Leader Robert Dole that they will "object to any unanimous consent agreement that would call up START II for final Senate action" if the treaty or the Clinton administration prevent the U.S. from deploying a ballistic missile defense system. Moscow prosecutors have shut down the probe into the 1990 murder of Rev. Aleksandr Men. Human rights leaders allege that the KGB killed the dissident priest. Ekho Moskvy reports that Rev. Men's relatives believe that the individual charged with the crime was framed to protect the real murderers. Russia Reform Monitor, No. 88. Jan. 8, 1996

* Defense Minister Pavel Grachev reiterates his hard line against NATO expansion: "We will be obliged to re-examine our views on the role and place of tactical nuclear arms, review our treaty obligations in the military sphere." He takes the stance during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart and Defense Secretary William Perry. Perry calls the meeting a sign of "warming relations."

* Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Posuvalyuk meets with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad. The official Iraqi News Agency says both sides are preparing for increased bilateral relations.

* "Russia is determined to improve relations with China," two senior Russian officials tell Reuters, as President Boris Yeltsin prepares for a March visit to Peking.

* Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Panov tells TASS that the Clinton administration has not objected to Russia's new military cooperation with the PRC: "I have had consultations in Washington and from the U.S. side no worries at all were expressed, since the scale of such cooperation is not great. . . ."

* "Senior Clinton administration officials, once invariably chipper about President Boris Yeltsin, are taking a markedly more shaded and wary tone about him these days," the New York Times reports.

* Former Assistant Secretary of State Chas W. Freeman briefs National Security Advisor Lake about his recent trip to Beijing. At the time, the PRC was planning a large-scale military operation, including the firing of ballistic missiles, to intimidate Taiwan as it held its first free presidential election. Freeman tells Lake that a high-ranking Chinese official warned against the U.S. defending Taiwan, making a remark Freeman interpreted as a threat to destroy Los Angeles, California, with a nuclear missile.

Russia Reform Monitor, No. 88. Jan. 8, 1996

General Accounting Office audit of Energy Department foreign trade missions by Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary has uncovered lax accounting procedures, including charges for places not visited and $80,000 in unaccounted expenses accumulated during a single July 1994 trip to India. The GAO audit also found documentation problems for about $175,000 in goods and services charged during a 1995 trade mission to South Africa by 135 people including 63 DOE employees. The report, which focused on the two trips, also raised questions about $730,000 spent to travel to India as well as the South Africa trip which cost about $1 million, more than half of it paid with tax dollars. Various Government 3/16/99 ohmlaw98

"Russia is determined to improve relations with China," two senior Russian officials tell Reuters, as President Boris Yeltsin prepares for a March visit to Peking.

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Panov tells TASS that the Clinton administration has not objected to Russia's new military cooperation with the PRC: "I have had consultations in Washington and from the U.S. side no worries at all were expressed, since the scale of such cooperation is not great. . . ."

Former Assistant Secretary of State Chas W. Freeman briefs National Security Advisor Lake about his recent trip to Beijing. At the time, the PRC was planning a large-scale military operation, including the firing of ballistic missiles, to intimidate Taiwan as it held its first free presidential election. Freeman tells Lake that a high-ranking Chinese official warned against the U.S. defending Taiwan, making a remark Freeman interpreted as a threat to destroy Los Angeles, California, with a nuclear missile. - Russia Reform Monitor, No. 88. Jan. 8, 1996

* The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, steaming toward the Adriatic sea to support Moscow's 2000-man force in Bosnia, is saved from aborting its mission when the Clinton administration ordered the U.S. Navy to send an emergency supply of fresh water for the nearly 2000 crewmen aboard, the Washington Times reports. "This deployment is a very big deal for the Russian navy," according to analyst Norman Polmar. The Kuznetsov's success on its first Mediterranean cruise is seen as crucial, because it could secure funding for completion of a second carrier, the Varyag. Without the water, the Kuznetsov would have to head for port.

* "I would think that having them [the Kuznetsov] in the Adriatic at this time would be an absolute nightmare" for NATO, whose forces already have five aircraft carrier groups there, says Jane's Fighting Ships editor Cmdr. Richard Sharpe. "NATO has enough problems there. If you add a Russian carrier, you have a recipe for considerable trouble."

Russia Reform Monitor, No. 90, January 14, 1996

* President Clinton tells a Clinton-Gore luncheon in Nashville, Tennessee, "For the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, there is not a single, solitary nuclear missile pointed at an American child, and I am proud of that."

* Foreign Minister Primakov sees renewed Russian "aggressiveness without alienation," the Washington Post reports. "Primakov went to some pains to emphasize that he will usher in a new and somewhat tougher tone as foreign minister, even if Moscow's foreign policy agenda stays largely the same." His stated priorities include greater integration of former Soviet republics and opposition to inclusion of Central and East European countries into NATO.Russia Reform Monitor, No. 90, January 14, 1996

China announces a broad plan to restrict the flow of news and economic information into China, by monitoring foreign financial news services and on-line trading systems. These services will now be "supervised" by the official Xinhua News Agency for the content of their reports and the subscriptions they sell to Chinese customers. The moves primarily affect the Reuters and Dow Jones business news services. - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

* First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais is ousted as an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation in Moscow prepares to assess whether Moscow should receive $9 billion in new loans.

January 22, 1996
John Huang spent his last day on the Commerce payroll, turned in his Commerce ID, keys, and passcard. Huang kept top secret security clearance for 1 year after leaving Commerce. (John Huang had been working at the DNC since December 5, 1995)

The Philippines Navy reports that vessels flying the Chinese flag exchanged fire with a gunboat 12 nautical miles off Campones Island, 72 miles northwest of Manila, and escaped after a 90-minute gun battle. Beijing has denied that its vessels had strayed into Philippines waters or traded fire with the Philippines gunboat. Manila decides not to file a diplomatic protest. The skirmish is the first violent incident between the two countries since their navies confronted each other near Mischief Reef on the Spratly Islands in May 1995, and the ninth in 17 months involving ships suspected to be from China. - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

January 24, 1996
Lisa Caputo of Mrs. Clinton's office transmitted to Carville questions-and-answers about Whitewater.

* The New York Times reports on Freeman's briefing to Lake, in the first public revelation of what it termed "an indirect threat by China to use nuclear weapons against the United States."

January 25, 1996
China's official news agency, Xinhua, announced that "China would use its improved Long March 3 carrier rocket to send 22 satellites into orbit under an agreement between Great Wall Industrial Corporation and Motorola."

In Washington, Trie represented several U.S. companies in China, where he was close to several government officials. - Kenneth R. Timmerman 6/97 American Spectator

China: Dual-use chemical precursors and equipment to aid Iran's chemical weapons program. Violation: AECA, EAR. Result: - sanctions imposed. The one time in 21. . - Congress

Trie arranged for Wang Jun, the chairman of the board of Polytechnologies, China's most prominent arms company, to attend a White House coffee. - Kenneth R. Timmerman 6/97 American Spectator

Zhan $12,500 contribution joint account.

The Chinese kick motor appeared on the DF 15 warheads that dropped only 20 miles off Taiwan's two largest cities. The DF-15 was upgraded with MARV characteristics - the technology used to avoid anti-missiles such as the Patriot. http://www.softwar.net/missile.html

The very first launch of the "improved Long March 3" proved lethal. The corporate victim was Rupert Murdoch, who was launching a Lockheed Martin telecommunications satellite designed to broadcast to all of Central and South America.

China launched M-class missiles carrying dummy warheads into target zones 30 miles off the shore of Taiwan. Tensions run high between China and it's Asian neighbors.

Bill is ordered to testify as a defense witness in case against Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker and Jim and Susan McDougal.

"Fry cook", former Chinese gang member, and friend of Bill from Arkansas Charlie Trie (Trie is presently represented by Brown lawyer Reid Weingarten) escorts Chinese arms merchant Wang Jun to WH coffee.

A (PLA) Peoples Liberation Army space launch vehicle crashes destroying the Loral satellite it was carrying. The satellite launch had been previously approved by Bill Clinton in a special order. Chinese officials keep American investigators away from crash scene. When they are finally allowed access, they find the highly militarily sensitive encryption chip is missing even though its encasing is intact. Loral and Hughes engineers inadvertently (?) give away missile secrets to China in the ensuing investigation. Loral exec Bernard Schwartz is top contributer to Clinton 1996 re-election campaign.

John Huang raises $1.1 million at a DNC fundraiser a block from the White House. Just before the fundraiser he sends a letter to Clinton saying a top Asian-American priority is to keep "sibling preference" immigration laws as is (Sibling preference laws give first come immigration priority to the brothers and sisters of naturalized US citizens. Huang is naturalized. Clinton said he favored ending this practice in 1995).

Congress' Whitewater Committee's mandate expires. Democrats filibuster move to extend probe and succeed in stopping it for good.

Whitewater hearings, Hubbell asked what he did for the Lippo money received.

A draft of the Report of the Fundamental Classification Policy Review was released to the public. Comments were incorporated into the final draft report delivered to Secretary O'Leary in March 1996…Successful completion of the Fundamental Classification Policy Review will demonstrate that: Responsible openness enhances national security by focusing limited classification and security resources on protection of only that information which is clearly identified as important to the national security. When secrecy contributes to citizens' distrust of their government, the classification policies which underlie the distrust can be changed to maintain the trust without compromising national security…."

Ron Brown meets with Wang Jun. Nolanda Hill claims they discussed lowering export controls. – Judicial Watch

Energy declassified the locations and forms of the federal plutonium reserve. Anyone with access to the Internet can find the data. For Chinese spies trying to collect such information, it ''did make it easier for them,'' Wade said. ''There's no question about it.'' Investor's Business Daily 4/12/99 Paul Sperry

Intriguing to investigators is likely to be Chung's account of a February 1996 car ride with a Beijing banker who asked Chung if he knew that Trie "asked my government for $1 million to help the president and the Democrats?" A surprised Chung said that the banker offered no further information...." - Los Angeles Times 5/7/99 WILLIAM C. REMPEL and ALAN C. MILLER

In a move aimed at keeping the ring-magnets dispute quiet, Mr. Christopher wrote to the Export-Import Bank later in February 1996, asking it to defer loan approvals for American businessmen operating in China. The cutoff would have been worth about $10 billion in new loans if it had been kept in place. But the measure lasted only 30 days and did not affect already-approved loans. The bank began considering new loans after the 30 days lapsed, without waiting for an official go-ahead from State. - Washington Times 5/18/99 Bill Gertz

FBI and DOJ announce the arrest of an army employee of the National Security Agency for selling top secret information to the Soviet Union -- from 1965-1974.

February 1, 1996
Wang Jun of China International Trust and Investment Corporation ("CITIC"), a Chinese government-controlled conglomerate, entered the United States.

February 2, 1996
Johnny Chung contributed $25,000 to the "Back to Business Committee," an organization run by Lynn Cutler. The mission of the Committee was to launch a media campaign to defend the President and First Lady against Whitewater-related charges. Chung was referred to former DNC Vice-Chairwoman Lynn Cutler by Maggie Williams in December 1995. Chung also claims that he used his relationship with Cutler to gain a meeting with a Commerce Department official, who discouraged him from investing in a petroleum business venture. http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

The Clinton administration granted Wang Jun's Poly Technologies import permits to flood America with over 100,000 semi-automatic weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition. The Clinton administration had been delaying other arms importers because the president was opposed. The abrupt turnaround in U.S. import policy was "highly suspicious". The destination for Wang's 100,000 guns was Detroit firm linked to the Chinese Armed Police. The massive gun shipment would have gone through, but the deal was suspended in the wake of the COSCO connected smuggling operation - which was short-circuited by federal agents just weeks after Wang Jun's import waivers were granted. Jun, the head of a Chinese weapons trading company, was being investigated by the Justice Department and the FBI at the same time and was eventually charged with smuggling at least $4 million worth of 2,000 illegal AK-47 assault weapons into the U.S. from China, destined for gang members in California. March 14, 1997 Arkansas Democrat Gazette; http://www.etherzone.com/loral.html

* As if referring to China, President Clinton tells voters in Salem, New Hampshire: "the Russians and others have detargeted their nuclear missiles so that now there are no more nuclear missiles pointed at any American homes for the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age." He tells an audience in Concord, New Hampshire: "there is not a single nuclear missile pointed at an American city, an American family, an American child. That is not being done any more."

February 5, 1996
Charlie Trie scheduled a reception for Wang Jun and other CITIC officials at his Watergate apartment. Little is known about this event or who attended, other than the fact that Jude Kearney was scheduled to attend. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

February 6, 1996
Wang Jun met with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.

Wang Jun met with Ernie Green and his Lehman Brothers associate at Green’s offices. According to those present, several individuals attended the meeting, including Wang, his translator, Trie, and Ng Lap Seng. According to Green, the purpose of the meeting was to "reintroduce" CITIC to Lehman Brothers. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Shortly after Wang’s Washington tour and appearance at the White House, word of the federal investigation into Poly Technologies was leaked to the press. This leak brought an early end to the sting operation run by the Customs Service. At the time of the leak, Customs officials were on the verge of arresting high-ranking Chinese officials for arms smuggling. After the leak, which came from "diplomatic sources," the Customs officials were left only with low-level criminals to arrest. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Just four days after the assault weapon waivers were issued, Ron Brown met with Wang Jun, chairman of the state-owned China International Trust & Investment Corp, Wang attended a White House coffee with President Clinton and Charlie Trie, a suspected conduit for political donations to the Democratic Party from China. President Clinton approved the launch of four U.S. satellites on China Aerospace- owned rockets. Nolanda Hill said that Wang and Brown discussed lowering export controls. China International Trade and Investment Corp. (Wang Ju chair) had multibillion dollar stakes in getting access to American satellites. – Judicial Watch

Ernie Green's wife donated $50,000 to the DNC. Charlie Trie had worked with Ernest Green, a longtime friend of Bill Clinton's, to get Wang a U.S. visa. Wang conveniently forgot to mention that he was a Communist arms dealer on the visa application. Had he disclosed that fact, Wang Jun would never have been let in the country, let alone the White House.

Clinton signed waivers for four new American satellite launches in China despite evidence that China was still exporting nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan and Iran. The [Memphis,
Tenn.] Commercial Appeal, 2/8/96; The New York Times, 5/17/98

February 7, 1998
Hillary Rodham Clinton's former law partner Webster Hubbell testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee, answering questions as to what might have happened to the First Lady's legal billing records that had mysteriously appeared the previous month. Under intense questioning, Hubbell acknowledged that he and Vincent Foster had examined the billing records during the 1992 presidential campaign, but that he did not recall the content and had no knowledge of who handled them afterwards or how they were lost.

Johnny Chung sent a letter to Lynn Cutler of the "Back to Business Committee," apologizing for the delay in his support for President Clinton and the First Lady. In the letter he requested a series of favors indicating that he was still hard at work on behalf of China's SINOPEC (petroleum interests). These requests included: (1) a meeting with Ron Brown, (2) a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador and other officials in Saudi Arabia, and (3) that Cutler discuss the oil issue with the President. In the letter, Chung referred to a discussion with the President about his efforts on behalf of his SINOPEC Petroleum interests during a White House Holiday Reception. http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

Administration officials say China secretly sold nuclear-weapons technology to Pakistan the year before and can face billions of dollars in sanctions under U.S. law. - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

February 8, 1996
Newly discovered, expletive-laden White House notes shocked the Senate Whitewater committee and fueled new debate over the role of the White House in Whitewater. The notes, written by former White House communications director Mark Gearan, reveal that White House aides were so concerned about what former Arkansas securities commissioner Beverly Bassett Schaffer might tell the Senate committee that they considered sending people to Arkansas to check up on her."Item by item, make sure her story is okay," Gearan wrote. "If the effort is botched, we're done." This particular note also contained references to three non-White House staffers whom Gearan thought could handle the job. That note referred to the committee and suggested: "Try to poke holes in their story." The notes included the F word.

Chinese envoy Sha Zukang lashes out at U.S. criticism of China's nuclear testing program, saying the country with the largest and most advanced nuclear arsenal is "not qualified to lecture" Beijing. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Shen Guofang says the U.S. will have to stop selling weapons to Taiwan before the threat of military conflict between Beijing and Taipei can fade (Taipei is scheduled to receive 150 F-16 jet fighters from the U.S. this year). At the same news briefing, he asserts China's right to buy defensive weapons (China has reportedly signed a fresh contract to buy 72 advanced Russian Su-27 fighter planes). - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

February 9, 1996
Keshi Zhan, Charlie Trie's office manager, made an illegal $12,500 contribution to the DNC. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

February 14, 1996
Five days before Yue Chu and Xiping Wang made contributions to the DNC totaling 25,000 (for which they were reimbursed), Ng Lap Seng wired $150,000 from an account maintained in the name of San Kin Yip Holdings Co. Ltd. at the Bank of China, Hong Kong branch, to the Riggs National Bank account maintained jointly by Ng Lap Seng and Charlie Trie. The balance in that account prior to the wire transfer was $10,459.55, significantly less than the $25,000 in reimbursed contributions. Yue Chu also testified to another reimbursed contribution, this one for $1,000 to the "Gephardt Congress Committee" on June 15, 1996 http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

China launch (Great Wall Industrial Corp) Long March 3B Intelsat blew up, a crash with a $200 million Loral satellite atop. It crashed 22 seconds after liftoff at the Xichang Satellite Launching Center in southern China, an outside review commission, headed by Loral, was assembled to help the Chinese study the accident. It included two scientists from Hughes. The commission's report, which was promptly shared with the Chinese, discussed other sensitive aspects of the rocket's guidance and control systems, which is an area of weakness in China's missile programs. Those exchanges, officials believed, may have gone beyond the sharing of information that the companies had been permitted, giving the Chinese crucial assistance in improving the guidance systems of their rockets. The technology needed to put a commercial satellite in orbit is similar to that which guides a long-range nuclear missile to its target. The Loral satellite crashed almost intact. Later, after being disassembled by US technicians, chips were discovered missing The Washington Post, 2/15/96; Human Events, 5/29/98

February 15, 1996
In a State Department memo regarding the transfer of technology exports it was noted that the "administration wanted to wrap this up".

A Feb. 15, 1996, Chinese rocket failure that destroyed a Loral Intelsat 708 satellite resulted in Loral's sharing of technology with the China Great Wall Industries Corp., which makes space launchers and missiles. The data could help China improve its launch and missile-testing practices and "could improve the reliability of PRC space-launch vehicles." The data obtained from Loral is likely to be used by China and to "find its way into their space-launch and ballistic-missile programs," the report says. Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES 5/7/99

February 16, 1996
House Republicans probing the firing of the White House travel office staff submitted 26 more questions for Hillary Rodham Clinton to answer. Rep. William F. Clinger Jr. (R-Pa.), chair of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, delivered the questions to White House Counsel Jack Quinn.

February 18, 1996
Ng Lap Seng brings $19,000 into US from China.

Ng Lap Seng attends President Clinton's Asian Dinner at the Hay Adams Hotel. Charlie Trie contributed $12,500 towards the event. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

The Asian-American fundraiser for the Clinton-Gore campaign took place at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Charlie Trie and Ng Lap Seng were rewarded with a seat at the head table, next to President Clinton. On the other side of the President sat Pauline Kanchanalak and Ted Sioeng. Of the four individuals who sat around the President at the event, two, Trie and Kanchanalak, have been indicted, and two, Ng and Sioeng, have fled the country. This event was the first major DNC event organized by John Huang, and Charlie Trie was a major part of Huang’s fundraising plans for the event. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Manlin Foung (Trie's sister) and her friend, Joseph Landon each contributed $12,500 via personal checks to the DNC with the understanding that they would be reimbursed before their checks cleared their respective banks http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

February 20, 1996
Ng Lap Seng has a meeting with Susan Levine at the White House. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Charlie Trie, Ng Lap Seng, Antonio Pan, and a number of other guests had breakfast, as well as a number of photographs with Vice President Al Gore. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

On February 20, 1996, Lei Chu, Trie’s advisor on the Bingaman Commission, established a checking account with an initial cash deposit of $12,520.00. On that same day, Chu issued the first check ever written on that account—in the amount of $12,500 to the DNC in conjunction with the Hay Adams fund-raiser. Lei Chu attended the February 19, 1996 fundraiser at the Hay Adams Hotel with Charlie Trie. She also attended a breakfast with Vice President Gore the following day at the Hay Adams. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

CIA Director John Deutsch confirmed to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the Communist Chinese transfer of M-11 missiles and cruise missiles to Pakistan.

Antonio Pan opened a savings account at the Amerasia Bank in Flushing, New York, with an initial deposit of $25,200 cash. Within minutes of the initial deposit, Pan withdrew $25,000 cash from the savings account and purchased five sequentially numbered $5,000 cashier’s checks totaling $25,000 from Amerasia Bank. Three of the cashier’s checks totaling $15,000 were made payable to Manlin Foung (Charlie Trie's sister) and two totaling $10,000 were made payable to her friend, Joseph Landon. Pan then sent these checks to Foung via overnight mail. On February 23, 1996, Foung and Landon deposited these checks in their accounts. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director John Deutch confirms that China is continuing to export "inappropriate" nuclear technology and missiles to Pakistan and says the agency is watching China's menacing military movements in Asia on a "minute-by-minute" basis. The disclosure that the CIA believes M-11 missiles -- not just related technology -- were transferred to Pakistan also requires sanctions to be imposed for violating the Missile Technology Control Regime. - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

February 29, 1996
Daihatsu corp. (Charlie Trie) contributes $12,500 to the DNC. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Ron Brown was granted a delay in scheduled testimony in civil case (Judicial Watch.) – Judicial Watch

Charlie Trie presented Michael H. Cardozo, executive director of the Presidential Legal Expense Trust (a defense fund that President and Mrs. Clinton set up to help pay their legal bills) with two manila envelopes containing checks and money orders for more than $450,000. The fund returned about $70,000 of this immediately, but deposited $378,300.

Clinton reverses policy on "sibling preference" immigration laws. Now agrees they should stay as is.

The PLA intimidates Taiwanese voters by shooting ballistic missiles at both ends of the islands. Clinton sends naval fleet to patrol water between Taiwan and China.

Clinton signs an order transferring decision making authority over overseas sales of dual-use technology licencing policy from the State Department to the Commerce Department -- thereby making it easier for the PLA to launch American satellites -- against State Department and Pentagon objections.

Gov. Tucker and McDougals go on trial.

Charlie Trie drops off $500,000+ into Clinton's legal defense fund. At the same time he delivers a letter to Clinton that contained a not-so-subtle threat to back down over Taiwan. Soon after, the ships leave and American policy toward Taiwan goes into drift mode. During Clinton's 1998 trip to China he described the sending of the fleet as "not intended as a threat to the (PRC) Peoples Republic of China". Tries money is returned later when it is noticed that the money orders, from many different people, have sequential serial numbers.

Macao gangleader Ng Lapseng (Who in 1994 showed up at the WH with $175,000 in cash at the time Web Hubbell was paid off) shows up again with another $20,000. Ng's total donation to the Clinton fund is $333,000.

Months before Taiwan's first democratic presidential election in March 1996, China sent a blunt message to Washington: Don't risk Los Angeles to defend Taipei. ....At the same time, military analysts said, China may be trying to modernize its nuclear arsenal not just to deter or win a war but also to keep the United States out of its way as it becomes more assertive about exerting its influence in Asia. China has never ruled out using force to regain Taiwan, a former province that split from the mainland after the 1949 civil war. ....."People were surprised that China exploded small devices that were totally unlike the devices they exploded before," said Andrew Yang, a military expert with the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies in Taipei. "That started to build up a suspicion that China had received the technology and know-how to build small nuclear bombs and not big ones."

It was recently learned that special prosecutor Starr was given permission last summer by Attorney General Reno and the US Court of Appeals to greatly expand his inquiry. Not only can he look into campaign contributions made during Clinton's presidential campaign but into obstruction of justice, perjury, destruction of evidence, intimidation of witnesses or conspiracies among them. Even more important, perhaps, Starr received permission to look into matters that were described in seven paragraphs that remain under court seal. -- The Progressive Review From Freeper posting 3/16/99 Wayne Mann

White House records indicate a meeting between Vice President Al Gore and John Huang takes place.

White House records indicate John Huang attends a DNC dinner with Bill Clinton.

White House records indicate John Huang meets with White House aide Harold Ickes.

Export licensing information obtained by TAS shows that the State Department licensed the export to China of 522 Hughes telephone ground stations valued at just over $5 million - The American Spectator 5/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman

Commerce Report: Loral Defense Systems (then an arm of Loral Aerospace) actively solicited Commerce Secretary Brown to intervene in getting approval from the White House to sell advanced radar technology to China. Loral wanted very badly to sell Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to China. SAR is a sophisticated ground-looking radar essential to the newly deployed Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) used by the U.S. military to track ground-based vehicular movement on the battlefield. SAR radars also equip the USAF F-15 Strike Eagle and the Predator unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle. A letter discovered in the previously unreleased files of Ron Brown shows that Loral Defense Systems President, Jerald A. Lindfelt, wrote Brown in March of 1996. Lindfelt sought Brown's help in the export of SAR technology to the Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing. According to the Defense Department, the Chinese "Institute of Remote Sensing" is actually a front for the Chinese Army missile guidance design laboratories. The Institute of Remote Sensing is "a developer of precision guidance systems for surface-to-air missiles." Loral's 1996 appeal also included a direct request for Ron Brown to over rule the Department of Defense, the State Department and even Brown's own Commerce Department, which had all previously denied SAR radar exports to China. "We've worked hard trying to resolve these problems with the Department of State, the Department of Commerce and the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA)," Loral's Lindfelt wrote to Brown. "But someone in these organizations always manages to block our participation... Over the years we have found that this type of obstacle often comes from lower levels of management rather than by people willing to look at the bigger picture. Could you help us by identifying someone in the Commerce Department high enough in the organization to help us resolve these issues and open this marketplace..." - Koenig's International News 5/18/99 Charles Smith

Reno's Justice Department requests a wiretap on computer network at Harvard University which later led to charges against Argentine resident Julio Caesar Ardita for breaking into Harvard computers and sensitive U.S. government files.

Deal to turn Long Beach Naval Station over to COSCO is finalized. The deal eventually falls through in late 1998 after Congress passes a bill forbiding the transfer.

Reno extends Ken Starr's mandate to include investigating the Travel Office firings.

Alleged Chinese spy and friend of Bill since late-1970s Arkansas Charlie Trie attends meeting with Buddhist Master Suma Ching Hai and followers in New York. Sect members donate money for Clinton's defense fund.

* Russia's ambassador to Tehran, Sergey Tretyakov, said that Russia may help Iran build other nuclear power stations once Bushehr is completed, saying that cooperation between Russia and Iran on the peaceful use of atomic energy is not confined to the Bushehr project and that US concerns over that cooperation were "the problem of the United States, not of Russia." ITAR-TASS, 18 March 1996; in "Russian Nuclear Aid to Iran 'Not Confined' to Bushehr," FBIS-TAC-95-005. http://www.cns.miis.edu/research/summit/irnuke.htm

* "Petro-Canada, Elf Aquitaine, Mannai Corp. (Quatar), Gulf Canada, Pennzoil - the list of companies leaving Russia or reducing their interests in its troubled petroleum sector seems to be accelerating..... The combination of confiscatory fiscal terms and conditions, a questionable Law on Production Sharing Agreements, inability to move forward on joint-venture operations, and a worrisome presidential campaign, appear to have worn down the resolve of all but the largest, most optimistic, or most stubborn foreign companies."

* "Projects such as the 4.2 billion barrel Priobskoye oil and gas development venture between Amoco and YUKOS, or the US $10 billion, 9-million-barrel Tenghiz venture between Chevron and the government of Kazakhstan, creep forward in an environment of high risk and uncertainty."

* "Western investors are not blind to the advantages afforded a large, well connected, domestic market player like LUKoil: Atlantic Richfield saw enough potential there to put up $250 million for a 6% equity stake in the company. By the end of the year, LUKoil plans to be trading on the New York stock exchange, and increase its foreign ownership to 15% by the end of 1998."

Reinsch, Tony, The Russian conundrum. (petroleum industry in Russia)(World Energy). Vol. 47, Oilweek, 04-01-1996, pp 10(1).

March 4, 1996
The Whitewater trial of Susan McDougal, Jim McDougal and Gov. Jim Guy Tucker began with the questioning of 56 potential jurors

March 6, 1996
Ron Brown announces at meeting in Baltimore that he will take trade delegation to Bosnia in April (Washington Times, Mar. 6, 1996);

March 8, 1996
Former Senator Jim Sasser (D-TN), in his new capacity as Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China, sent a fax to Lynn Cutler at the Kamber Group. He said that Chung visited his office when he was not available. He informed Cutler that he was searching Beijing hotels for Chung in an effort to set up a meeting. Johnny Chung used his relationship with Ms. Cutler to schedule a meeting in Beijing with ambassador Sasser. http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

First shot begins shortly after midnight. At intervals of roughly an hour, three M-9 ballistic missiles carrying dummy warheads splash down into target areas just 22 miles from Keelung, the island's second busiest seaport, and 32 miles from the harbor of Kaohsiung, the third largest container port in the world. These two ports closest to the Chinese target zones account for 70 percent of Taiwan's two-way trade. China also stages elaborate military maneuvers in a 6,600-square-mile rectangle that stretches to the mid-point of the Taiwan Strait. The area is 30 to 70 miles from Taiwanese Islands. Beijing also says it plans to begin "live ammunition" war games on March 12 in a 6,000-square-mile zone that will obstruct much of the shipping and air traffic in the Taiwan Strait. - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher calls China's attempt to intimidate Taiwan "reckless," and announces the dispatch of a battle group led by the USS Independence. He says, "I think they've been risky, and.. smack of intimidation and coercion." The destroyer Hewitt and guided-missile frigate McClusky will join the Independence north of Taiwan the following day, according to the Seventh Fleet from Yokosuka, Japan. The guided-missile cruiser Bunker Hill took up a position south of the island to monitor China's missile tests, according to the Navy. Secretary Christopher says on NBC's Meet the Press that the U.S. intends the warships to be "in a position to be helpful, if they need to be." - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

The Secret Hand Of Stephens In Whitewater Investigation Just before the 1996 Presidential election, Judicial Watch deposed John Huang, and the fledgling scandal was taken up by columnist Willian Safire. It had little effect….

Christopher Cox: "…Having correctly identified proliferation of weapons of mass destruction as one of the gravest problems facing U.S. and world stability, the Clinton Administration has essentially acquiesced in the transgressions of the world's most brazen proliferator. With no meaningful resistance from Washington, the Communist government in Beijing is now engaged in the active worldwide distribution of nuclear and chemical weapons ingredients, as well as the ballistic missiles needed to deliver them. Their customers include some of the world's most fervently anti-Western regimes, such as Iran. These actions constitute clear and continuing violations of the NPT. But rather than apply the sanctions called for in the NPT, the Clinton Administration has merely asked the Export-Import Bank to delay loan approvals to the PRC for 30 days. In the meantime, the Administration has asked the Communist Chinese government to investigate itself, no less. An American official made this remarkable statement to The Washington Post: "We are looking for information that would help us to let them off the hook." …The PRC has set up numerous commercial entities to engage in its cynical and reckless arms production enterprise. The most active and dangerous of these is the China Poly Group Corporation, known variously as "Polytechnologies Incorporated," or "Baoli" in Chinese. The Poly Group is Communist China's leading merchant of death. They sell everything from small arms to the latest weapons of mass destruction in the People's Liberation Army arsenal…. Communist China's many other government-run arms dealers have fanciful names such as the China Rainbow Development Corporation, the 999 Enterprise Group, and the Blue Sky Industrial Corporation. These inoffensive titles mask deadly connections. Rainbow is in the nuclear business. 999 is a pharmaceutical empire directed by the PLA's Communist Party Department. Blue Sky is fittingly controlled by the Communist Chinese Air Force. And the list of these Communist arms-sale fronts is seemingly endless. Despite the PRC's desperate attempts at secrecy, the Defense Intelligence Agency's unclassified list reveals 67 such enterprises…. "

President Clinton orders a second U.S. carrier battle group into the area, and the Pentagon shifts a carrier already there closer to Taiwan. The naval battle group led by the USS Independence, stationed about 200 miles off Taiwan's shores the week before to monitor China's ballistic missile exercises, has moved to within about 100 miles. It remains outside the Strait of Taiwan. Secretary of Defense William Perry says the movement of U.S. warships is "a prudent, cautionary measure." - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

March 12, 1996
Headlines were about China's continued tensions with its Asian neighbors, especially Taiwan - by China's firing M-9 ballistic missiles, carrying dummy warheads into target zones 30 miles off the shore of Taiwan

China launches war games southwest of Taiwan, drawing a Taiwanese threat to strike back if the mock warfare turns into an attack. Chinese combat planes and warships practice bombing runs and drills off Taiwan at the start of eight days of war games. About 10 Chinese ships conduct formation drills, and about 10 warplanes practice air cover, surveillance and bombing runs near Dongshan and Nan Ao, on China's southeastern coast. Taiwan places its 400,000-member military on heightened alert, especially on the islands that face the exercise area. - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

China fires another missile near Taiwan, but unlike the others, this one does not cross Taiwan's territorial waters. A steady succession of F-14 and F-18 fighter planes shoot skyward from the USS Independence aircraft carrier (operating with a cruiser, a destroyer, and a frigate), based at Yokosuka, Japan and now positioned 200 miles off the east coast of Taiwan. The planes take 90-minute flights, practicing air intercepts and bombing runs. Thirteen planes at a time are in the air, with the missions continuing day and night. Rear Admiral James Ellis, Jr., commander of the Independence battle group (with a crew of 6,500 and carrying 55 to 70 aircraft), says its seven ships have come to show the U.S. commitment to peace in the region, but none is in the Strait and the group is engaging in "normal routine operations," while also monitoring the Chinese exercises. Although the Independence is leaving some distance between itself and the area of the Chinese maneuvers (about an hour's flying time), officers say the carrier is close enough. The ship's navigator Commander Dave Wirt says they can get to Taiwan in four hours. - Center for Taiwan International Relations. Kristie Wang 1996

Clinton reversed Christopher's decision, overruling both the State Department and the Pentagon - which wanted to keep sharp limits on China's ability to launch American made satellites using Chinese rockets - and turned oversight of granting permissions for such launches to Commerce, which was in favor of permitting them. The New York Times, 5/17/98

Commerce email said to put a low key spin on news to "not draw attention to the decision"

At a meeting in Peking one month after the crash of the Loral Sattelite, the insurance companies threatened to withhold coverage from future launches unless China submitted its findings on the cause of the crash to an "Independent Review Committee."

White House W.A.V.E. records indicate a meeting between John Huang and Vice President Gore. March 18, 1996

Undercover Customs and BATF agents accepted delivery of guns smuggled aboard the COSCO ship Empress Phoenix, as part of an ongoing sting operation dubbed "Dragon Fire." Besides the smuggled guns, which they recommended for the California street gang market, the Chinese operatives explained that they were ready to sell everything from grenade launchers to shoulder fired Red Parakeet surface to air missiles, which they boasted could "take out a 747". The COSCO crates contained 2,000 Poly Technologies AK-47's, the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in the history of U. S. law enforcement.

China’s Nuclear Arsenal Yang Zheng National University of Singapore - This document reveals that China at present has a total of 2,350 nuclear warheads. This number i s about 8 times larger than the 300 generally cited in the Western media. - anonymous poster (123889@anon.penet.fi) sent an internal document of the Chinese Defense Ministry to the Hong Kong magazine The Trend (Dong Xiang).

March 19, 1996
Independent Counsel Pearson obtained subpoenas that showed his probe had widened to include Ron Brown's ties to possibly illicit fund-raising activities involving the Democratic National Committee and a DNC-affiliated group called the Asian Pacific Advisory Council.

March 20, 1996
A federal judge ruled in favor of President Bill Clinton's request that he be allowed to give testimony in the trial of Jim and Susan McDougal, the president's former Whitewater partners, by videotape. The president's supporters describe the decision as a major victory for the president, who sought to avoid appearing in person. But the judge denied Clinton's request that questions be provided in advance.

March 21, 1996
Little Rock businessman and friend of Bill Clinton, Charles "Charlie" Yah Lin Trie, gives Michael Cardozo of Clinton's Presidential Legal Expense Trust two manila envelopes containing $460,000 in questionable donations.

Charlie Trie met with Mark Middleton and gave him a letter that outlined a number of views regarding the Taiwan Strait crisis which was brewing at the time. A witness informed the House Committee that Trie was "terribly concerned" over possible incidents between the United States and China over Taiwan. According to this witness, Trie spoke of having talked to "people in the White House and National Security Council about the danger of confronting China over Taiwan." Middleton faxed Trie’s letter to the White House, and on the cover page, informed the White House staff that "[a]s you likely know, Charlie is a personal friend of the President from L.R. He is also a major supporter." Trie’s letter received a response from President Clinton just one month later. The response, in relevant part, stated that the U.S. action "was intended as a signal to both Taiwan and the PRC that the United States was concerned about maintaining stability in the Taiwan Strait region. It was not intended as a threat to the PRC." Trie’s letter and the Administration’s response to it were handled by several high-level national security staffers, including National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and staffer Robert Suettinger. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

March 23, 1996
Lee Teng-hui was the resounding victor in the Taiwan Presidential election and would become, in the words of a buoyant newspaper advertisement appearing earlier in the campaign, "Our First Made-in-Taiwan President." An ebullient Lee announced: "At the time when our country is under threat and intimidation, we are able to complete this election successfully because we believe deeply that this is a historic call of mission." That was the closest he got to a direct reference to China, although the President-elect said he would "defend forever the road of democracy."

David Hale was sentenced to 28 months in jail and ordered to pay back $2,000,000. for his guilty plea on charges of defrauding the Small Business Administration.

Whitewater special counsel Kenneth Starr extended his investigation to include Travelgate testimony given by former presidential aide David Watkins. Attorney General Janet Reno had asked the court that appointed Starr approve the move, out of concern that her separate Justice

Department inquiry could "seriously interfere with the independent counsel's ongoing investigation." In 1993, Watkins told the General Accounting Office that an evaluation done by a private accounting firm evaluation inspired the firings. However, in a memo that appeared in January, Watkins claimed that it was Mrs. Clinton who demanded that the travel office staff be dismissed. He writes, we ... knew that there would be hell to pay if ... we failed" to remove the travel office employees "in conformity with the first lady's wishes."

Freeper Helen and Jolly "…Title 15 - COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE Chapter VII - BUREAU OF EXPORT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Part 742 - CONTROL POLICY, CCL BASED CONTROLS Sec. 742.4 National Security (a) License requirements. It is the policy of the United States to restrict the export and reexport of items that would make a significant contribution to the military potential of any other country or combination of countries that would prove detrimental to the national security of the United States. Accordingly, a license is required... [snip] (b)(7) For the People's Republic of China, the general licensing policy is to approve applications, except that those items that would make a direct and significant contribution to electronic and anti-submarine welfare, intelligence gathering, power projection, and air superiority receive extended review or denial. Each application will be considered individually. Items may be approved even though they may contribute to Chinese military development or the end-user or end-use is military…." Alamo-Girl note "appears to have been issued 3/25/96 for review … less than 2 weeks before Ron Brown’s plane crash"

New York Times 5/5/99 Gary Milhollin Jordan Richie "...More than half of the $15 billion in exports [to China] consisted of computers. China had been denied access to high-performance computers until President Clinton loosened computer controls in 1996, after strenuous lobbying by his political supporters in Silicon Valley. Then a flood of computer exports began. By now China has imported about 400 high-performance machines, just what would be needed to process the American nuclear codes and simulate the workings of our arsenal. Although China has insisted that these computers were imported for civilian uses, it has refused virtually all requests to let United States officials see what the machines are really doing.

March 25-26, 1996
Hillary in Tuzla, Bosnia, accompanied by Chelsea and Army Secretary Togo West; from there, she goes on to Aviano, Turkey, and Greece (FDCH, White House schedule, Mar. 15, 1996);

March 26, 1996
Trip of Defense Secretary Perry to Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, and Egypt announced (Xinhua, Mar. 26, 1996);

March 27, 1996
White House W.A.V.E. records indicate John Huang's attendance at a DNC dinner with the President.

The Energy Department receives a report from a Chinese spy that China has stolen information about the neutron bomb from American nuclear weapons laboratories.

March 28, 1996
Perry and Lt. Gen. Wesley Clark appear before Senate For. Rlns. Comm. Hearing on Chemical-Biological Defense; Clark answers questions about crowd control agents (shades of Waco!) (FDCH transcript of hearing);

Timetable and itinerary announced for Ron Brown's trip to Bosnia and Croatia (Xinhua, Mar. 29, 1996);
(late): Perry leaves Washington (Agence France Presse, Mar. 29, 1996);

White House W.A.V.E. records indicate a meeting between John Huang and Harold Ickes.

A federal appeals court denied a request by President Bill Clinton to reconsider its January decision allowing the president to be tried on the Paula Jones sexual harassment complaint during his presidency.

March 30, 1996
Perry in Zagreb (Xinhua, Mar. 30, 1996);

March 31, 1996
Perry goes to Tuzla, Sarajevo (Deutsche Presse Agentur, Mar. 31, 1996), later in day goes to Tirana, Albania, where meeting of defense ministers opens (UPI, Mar. 31, 1996);

Trie was officially appointed to the President's Commission on U.S.-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy, just two weeks after dropping off to Mr. Cardozo the two manila envelopes containing checks and money orders; http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Wah Lim, Chinese-born American citizen and senior vice president and engineer at Loral Space and Communications wrote a letter to China Aerospace Corp. in April 1996: " Equally important, I believe, is the task of using this failure as an opportunity to insure that the Long March launch vehicles have the best reliable record in the future. Even if that means your engineers and Cgwic takes a little more time to implement several phases of improvements over time; I believe it is worth it. We, at Space Systems/Loral would like China Great Wall to be a strong supplier of launch services and we will do everything in our power to help you. " A few weeks later, the technical information was provided to China Aerospace.

CIA discovered evidence that China sold 5,000 ring magnets to Pakistan - used to develop nuclear weapons. The Washington Times, 4/3/96

"…in April of 1996 -- a Department of Energy official informed President Clinton's deputy national security adviser, Samuel Berger, (1) that China had probably stolen our secrets of making warheads small enough to enable long-range missiles to pack multiple nuclear punches, and (2) that the suspected spy was still at work in the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Mr. Berger, who sat in on most of the political meetings with Clinton's Asian fund-raisers, did nothing. The internal security division of the Department of Justice apparently did not ask a court for wiretap authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. At Reno Justice, investigating any Chinese penetration is a no-no…" NY Times OpEd 3/8/99 William Safire "

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown dies in a plane crash in Bosnia. 34 others perish as well. Many are Commerce Department employees. Commerce oversaw the satellite launches in China. Brown's body would later be discovered to have a suspiciously round hole in his head. No autopsy would be performed. The plane did not have a "black box". No safety investigation would be performed over the accident.

Monica and Bill have one of their final flings in the Oval Office study -- hours after Ron Brown's memorial service. Ms. Monica would then be transferred to the Pentagon.

Ronald Pandolfi writes a report for the CIA warning about military implications of Hughes Electronic's sharing of expertise with the Chinese. The CIA decides not to distribute the classified report to select government officials, as is routinely done with intelligence estimates, saying it was insufficiently rigorous.

The Energy Department decides to brief the White House about apparent Chinese espionage at Los Alamos weapons lab. A group of senior officials including Trulock sat down with Sandy Berger, then Clinton's deputy national security adviser, to tell him that China appeared to have acquired the W-88 and that a spy for China might still be at Los Alamos.

Vice President Al Gore meets at the Hsi Lai Buddist Temple in Los Angelas. Alleged Communist Chinese spy Maria Hsia is his host. He walks away with $140,000 in campaign donations from "monks" which must later be returned. Maria Hsia is currently represented by lawyer Nancy Luque. Luque was the lead attorney for the 1996 Clinton/Gore campaign. She also represents Virginia housewife Julie Hiatt Steele who has been indicted by Starr's grand jury in relation to the Kathleen Willey assault and ensuing intimidation.

Jim McDougal visits Clinton at the White House. This is their first meeting in years. Jim later alleges Clinton assured him he would pardon his wife Susan.

[Espionage] After the analysts reported to Deutch in November, a broader review, dominated by the Energy Department, reported similar conclusions in April 1996. Berger was then briefed that same month, and the F.B.I. opened its criminal investigation on May 30, 1996. - New York Times 6/27/99 James Risen Jeff Gerth

The administration transferred licensing authority for jet-engine production technology from the Munitions List, which is administered by the State Department, to the "dual-use" list at Commerce; gaining access to hot section technology was another top COSTIND priority, Pentagon officials say- The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman

Mickey Kanter is named as Brown's replacement.

FBI arrests Navy enlistee Kurt Lessenthien for attempting to sell top secret information to an unnamed foriegn government. Lessenthien was a machinist mate on nuclear submarines.

Former CIA Director William Colby goes missing.

April 1, 1996
Accusing Senate Democrats of "stonewalling" on the Whitewater inquiry, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) announced that the Whitewater hearings he chairs will resume under the Banking Committee's jurisdiction unless Democrats drop their demands that hearings end by mid-June.

Hillary returns to Washington (WH Schedule);

April 2, 1996
Meeting in Tirana concludes, Perry meets with president of Albania(UPI, Apr. 2, 1996); Ron Brown arrives in Tuzla;

Within 3 weeks of the policy change by Clinton - a plane carrying Ron Brown, U.S. commerce secretary, and 34 others, crashes in rocky terrain over Croatia. There are no survivors. Pearson's investigation was closed soon after Brown's plane crashed. Unfinished matters, including the investigation of Hill and Brown's son Michael, were turned over to the Justice Department.

Huang's ex-boss, Charles Meissner Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy at the Department of Commerce, also died in the same plane crash with Ron Brown.

The CIA discovered evidence that China is supplying parts and technicians for a plutonium reprocessing plant in Pakistan.

April 4, 1996
Peter Galbraith tells press in Dubrovnik, "I can simply state two facts: First, the weather yesterday as the plane flew in was terrible, people in Dubrovnik say it was the worst storm in decades." (AP Worldstream, Apr. 4, 1996);

Michael Cardozo of the President's Legal Expense Trust, met with Hillary Clinton and Harold Ickes, and informed them that a businessman named Charlie Trie had delivered $380,000 in contributions to the PLET. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

April 8, 1996
Bill Clinton meets John K. H. Lee, the South Korean Chairman of Cheong Am America Inc., whose firm made an illegal $250,000 campaign contribution to the DNC.

April 10 1996
Loral sent Senior Vice President Dr. Wah L. Lim to Peking for preliminary meetings with technicians from China Great Wall Industries Corp. (CGWIC), the maker of the Long March booster rockets.

Security advisers at Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, Calif., were closely monitoring on video tape the Chinese Long March 3B rocket crashes. The Wall Street Journal, 5/29/98

Stephen Bryen, security adviser in a Loral Meeting (about providing assistance to China on failed launch): " I said , No , you cannot do that , ' That is a transfer of technical data . " But 11 days later, they went ahead..

April 12, 1996
President Bill Clinton announced that he will name U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to succeed the late Ron Brown as Commerce Department head.

April 15, 1996
President Bill Clinton travels to Asia to meet with South Korea's president Kim Young-sam in South Korea to discuss North Korea's continued troop movements on its border with South Korea.

* The New York Times gave front-page coverage to "an ominous facility being created deep underground beneath Mt. Yamantau in the southern Ural Mountains. The article underscored that the U.S. government is unsure exactly to what purpose this hardened, military-related facility will ultimately be put and notes that the Russian government of Boris Yeltsin refuses to respond to questions on the subject -- either to its friends in the Clinton Administration, to members of the foreign or domestic press or even to its own parliament..." "According to one unnamed American official: "The complex is as big as the Washington area inside the Beltway." U.S. intelligence -- which a Defense Department spokesman said today has been "aware of this facility...for some time" has been able to assess the progress of its construction primarily through monitoring materials supplied to it, the above-ground construction activity and the many thousands of workers and security personnel housed at and involved in the project." Restoration Watch # 9: Mt. Yamantau -- from the Folks Who Brought You the Cold War Publications of the Center for Security Policy No. 96-D 37

April 17, 1996
Letter from Barbara Fredericks to Laura Sherman, in reference to the Clinton administration's desire to appoint Charlie Trie to the Commission on the United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy: "Officials of the United States Trade Representative's office who reviewed Trie's disclosure report found that Trie's position on the Commission could have a "direct and predictable effect" on his interests in Daihatsu, San Kin Yip, and Walmart and that he thus possessed "a disqualifying financial interest."

April 18, 1996
Ken Bacon announces at Pentagon press briefing, "President Clinton has nominated Lieutenant General Wesley Clark to the rank of General to become the commander-in-chief of the Southern Comman in Panama." (FDCH transcript of briefing).

A Memo is sent to Anthony Lake regarding a letter written by Charlie Trie regarding China/Taiwan.

William Schweikert, Loral's technology transfer control manager, told the IRC that because the accident review involved getting information from China and not providing information to China, there was no need for Pentagon export security officials to be present. He also said that merely accepting or rejecting China's own conclusions on the crash would not constitute technical assistance. Later the same day, committee staff director Nick Yen traveled to Washington and briefed officials of the Departments of State, Transportation, Commerce and Defense on what the IRC planned to do, Loral's outside experts said.

President Clinton announced the appointment of Charlie Trie to the newly created Commission on the United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy ("the Commission"). Several circumstances surrounding Trie's appointment to and involvement with the Commission, however, indicate that Trie's political contributions and fundraising were critical factors in the Administration's decision. At the time of Trie's appointment to the Commission, he had contributed a total of $205,000 to the DNC. When allegations surfaced of Trie's involvement in campaign finance illegalities, Trie fled the United States for China and sent a letter to the Commission apologizing for the impact of the scandal on the Commission's work and expressly stating that he would no longer be participating in Commission activities. However, the Administration never formally revoked Trie's appointment, and he remained a member until the Commission submitted its final report in April 1997.

Energy Department Trade Missions: Authority, Results, and Management Issues (Testimony, 04/24/96) GAO/T-NSIAD-96-151 "…Although several of the company officials we interviewed said their completed business agreements would have occurred without DOE's involvement, many also said that their projects were accelerated as a result of the trade missions. Others, including some Commerce Department officers stationed in the four overseas posts that DOE visited, cited such intangible benefits as increased credibility with foreign officials and the opportunity to establish new or high-level contacts with business and government officials…."

Mr. Trie returns to Cardozo's office with another $179,000 in questionable contributions.

Anthony Lake responds in a letter regarding Charlie Trie letter on Taiwan Issues.

Clinton forwards a letter to Charlie Trie regarding Taiwan Issues.

Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission Ann Brown attends White House coffee chat in Al Gore's office and meets with a leader of a trade group she regulates.

April 29, 1996

Although the Clintons and McDougals have been estranged for years, a "very cordial" Clinton gave James McDougal a brief tour of the White House Map Room, where Clinton's Whitewater deposition had just taken place. During this meeting, McDougal would later allege, Clinton assured him that he would pardon Susan McDougal.

Gore attends a Buddhist temple fund-raiser where $60,000 in illegal donations is raised. - AP Online 3/26/00

April 30, 1996
Two U.S. senators seeking the removal of Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr were rebuffed by the court that appointed him. "This court has no power of removal over independent counsels," U.S. Court of Appeals Judge David Sentelle wrote in a letter to Sens. Bennett Johnston (D-La.) and Harry Reid (D- Nev.). Sentelle informed them that by law, only Attorney General Janet Reno has the authority to remove Starr.

After the Clinton fund ordered an investigation, the rest of Trie's money was returned. The investigation found that some of the money came from sequentially numbered money orders, supposedly from different people in different cities, but all apparently signed in the same handwriting;

Letter signed by Schwartz and two other aerospace executives urged Clinton to promptly implement the decision to transfer the export licensing from State to Commerce.

Sockowitz's followed his boss, Lew to the Small Business Administration as her senior adviser. Chicago Tribune 11/2/96 Mary Jacoby David Jackson; Judicial Watch

WH Coffee guest Wang Jun's Chinese company Polytechnologies is busted trying to smuggle thousands of automatic machine guns and "Stinger" type missiles into the United States for sale to drug gangs.

Former CIA Director William Colby goes missing. His canoe is found on the bank of a creek behind his home. Days later, his body is found -- only feet from the canoe. Pathologist report concludes he drowned after having either a heart attack or a stroke.

Navy Admiral James "Mike" Boorda commits suicide by shooting himself in the chest (Possibly twice). He leaves a type-written note behind.

Gov. Tucker and the McDougals are convicted on 24 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy.

Clinton formally announces decision to renew Most Favored Nation (MFN) trading status with China. In 1994, Clinton successfully de-linked human-rights abuse questions to the granting of MFN status to China.

Clinton announces he is opposed to deployment of a missile defense system to protect American cities. He says it makes no sense to build an anti-missile system "before we know the details and dimensions of the threat we face".

Clinton lawyers try to defer Jones case before the Supreme Court by claiming Clinton falls under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act. The act allows civil claims against active-duty military members be delayed until they leave the military. The Supreme Court shoots down their argument saying Clinton is a civilian Commander-In-Chief and is not on active-duty.

Facing congressional contempt citation, White House releases 1,000 (Of 3,000) requested documents to a committee investigating the Travel Office firings.

Over concerns related to the high number of foreign visitors, and concerns that the laboratories are targets of foreign espionage, the House Committee on National Security directed the GAO to determine how well DOE has been managing foreign visits to the weapons laboratories. Accordingly,GAO assessed DOE's (1) procedures for reviewing the backgrounds of foreign visitors and for controlling the dissemination of sensitive information to them, (2) security controls for limiting foreign visitors' access to areas and information within its laboratories,and (3) counterintelligence programs for mitigating the potential threat posed by foreign visitors. (GAO/RCED-97-229)

The report says the second mistake came when the Department of Energy turned the case over to the FBI in May 1996, but inaccurately said Lee's computer could not be monitored - Congressional Report Blasts U.S. Inquiry of China's Nuclear Espionage 8/5/99

William Colby found dead only 20 yards from his canoe which had been discovered eight days prior.

Chinese company Polytechnologies, headed by Clinton coffee guest Wang Jun, is busted trying to smuggle 2,000 machine guns and shoulder launched missiles into U.S. The equipment was to be sold to drug gangs. The weapons were shipped into Berkeley, California harbor by way of a COSCO ship.

Navy Adm. Jeremy "Mike" Boorda commits suicide by shooting himself in the chest.

FBI office in Laredo, Texas is bombed.

May 1, 1996
Whitewater prosecutors identified inconsistencies with Hillary Rodham Clinton's sworn statement regarding a meeting she had with the Clinton's Whitewater partner James McDougal. Mrs. Clinton stated previously she discussed an overdue legal bill with McDougal in April 1985. But that bill was paid off in 1984, according to the president of one of McDougal's banks, and Rose law firm records also show that a $5,000 payment was made in November 1984.

May 5, 1996
Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie contributes $10,000 to the DNC. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Loral Senior Vice President Dr. Wah L. Lim's deputy, Nick Yen, faxed a report on the technical advice and direction necessary to correct the "deficiencies" of the Chinese rocket, to China Great Wall Industry in Peking despite the U.S. export control restrictions against the transfer of this type of technological assistance. The Loral/Hughes systems analysis was just the type of technology transfer that caused the National Air Intelligence Center and the State Department's office of Intelligence and Research to conclude, in a still-classified May 1997 joint report, that the interchange had done "damage" to U.S. national security by helping the Chinese to make more reliable rockets.

Newsweek reported that the First Lady's fingerprints appeared on Rose Law Firm billing records that were belatedly discovered. Also found were prints of former aide Vincent Foster, and four law firm aides on the billing records that had been missing for two years.

May 7-10, 1996
Nick Yen faxed the committee's 200 page preliminary report on the rocket accident to China Great Wall Industries Corp. http://209.67.209.1/archives/98-07_timmerman.html

May 9, 1996
Inviting a contempt of Congress vote, President Bill Clinton claimed executive privilege as a basis for refusing to provide additional documents on the firings of the White House travel office staff. The move drew a quick reaction from Rep. William Clinger (R-Pa.), who chairs a House panel looking into the controversy. "Unfortunately, the White House, in keeping with their culture of secrecy, has decided to withhold from this investigation a vaguely defined body of documents," Clinger told the Associated Press.

At a meeting, Micheal Cardozo told the White House that he intended to return the Charlie Trie contributions to the President's Legal Expense Trust. This meeting was attended by high-level White House staffers including Bruce Lindsey, Harold Ickes, Cheryl Mills, and Maggie Williams. During this meeting, according to Cardozo, Bruce Lindsey stated that Trie was "involved with the Democratic Party." http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

Loral's counsel, Julie Bannerman was one hour too late to stop the transmission of Lim's report to the Chinese.

The Clinton administration decides not to impose sanctions on China for transferring nuclear technology to Pakistan. Chicago Tribune, 5/11/96

After months of secret U.S.-Chinese talks, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns issued a carefully worded statement May 10, 1996, saying the secretary of state had cleared China of any culpability. "Of particular significance, the Chinese assured us that China will not provide assistance to unsafeguarded nuclear facilities, and the Chinese will now confirm this in a public statement," Mr. Burns said. Unsafeguarded facilities are nuclear plants and support facilities that are not subject to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors nuclear facilities around the world under the treaty. "In addition," Mr. Burns declared, "senior Chinese officials have informed us that the government of China was unaware of any transfers of ring magnets by a Chinese entity, and they have confirmed our understanding that China's policy of not assisting unsafeguarded nuclear programs will preclude future transfers of ring magnets to unsafeguarded facilities." There was "not a sufficient basis" to impose sanctions as required by the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994. - Washington Times 5/18/99 Bill Gertz

"…Then on May 11, 1996, it [China] promised not to do it [nuclear proliferation] again. Mr. Clinton's speech said nothing about China's nuclear deals and treaty-breaking -- or what the C.I.A. told Congress in June 1997. The C.I.A. reported that during the second half of 1996, after the pledge to the U.S., China was still the "primary source of nuclear related equipment and technology" to Pakistan. Also, said the report, China is the world's "most significant supplier of weapons of mass destruction-related goods and technology" -- which means nuclear, chemical or bacteriological. The President did not mention China's breaking its pledge to America after breaking its treaty pledge to the world. Nor did he say that he was planning to reward China by giving it clearance to shop nuclear in America. But he will, unless Congress can block him …." The New York Times 10/28/97 A.M. ROSENTHAL

Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig attends a Clinton White House coffee in the map room, organized by Director of the Office of Public Liaison Alexis Herman, and meets with 17 top banking executives he regulates.

Despite objections from the National Security Council the president receives an award from Yogesh Gandhi in the White House. Gandhi had agreed prior to the meeting to contribute a check to the DNC for $325,000. Craig Livingston was responsible for the White House arrangements for the meeting with Mr. Gandhi.According to published reports, Gandhi gave more than half the money that was raised at a May 1996 DNC event in Washington that was organized by John Huang. Gandhi reportedly told Congressional probers that he gave a check for $325,000 to Democrat fund-raiser Charlie Trie and asked him to hold it 10 days so he could cover his account. Within the 10 days, wire transfers were credited to his account. Gandhi said the money was his, but offered three different accounts of how he acquired the funds. http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm

At a fundraiser arranged by Huang and Charlie Trie, President Clinton addressed the large number of foreign nationals attending the event at the Sheraton Carlton: "I say to the Asian American community here – and to those who come from other countries to be with us here tonight – the United States is very grateful for the people who have come from the Asian Pacific region, who have made our country their home." Among the group of foreign nationals was a high ranking executive at the Lippo Group, Roy Tirtadji. Giroir had contributed $100,000 towards the event so that he and approximately 20 others, including Tirtadji, could attend. However, Tirtadji, and not Joe Giroir, sat at the head table with the President. Half of the guests seated with President at this event were foreign citizens. The President only sat at the head table for about 15 minutes. According to one witness who sat at the head table at this event, during the time the President sat at the table, either no one wanted to speak, or could not speak English. Therefore, this witness, Jitu Somaya, then struck up small talk with the President to fill the time. In fact, the event contained so many foreign nationals that it provoked concern among one Democratic official who said, "’. . . I hope people are checking this one out. It was peculiar. There were a lot of people who didn’t speak English or spoke very, very poor English.’" President Clinton again singled out Huang and Charlie Trie for praise in front of the donors they solicited. The event was slated to raise $500,000, but documents provided to the House Committee show that $577,000 was raised from only 23 different donors. http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4a_riadyhuang.htm

May 15, 1996
Lawyers for President Bill Clinton asked the Supreme Court to delay Paula Jones' sexual harassment against Clinton until he leaves office.

* Ogonek, a Russian news weekly, publishes the remarks of Rear Admiral Viktor Vasilyevich Patrushev, Chief of the Operations Directorate of the Russian Navy General Staff. "Yes, the presidents of the United States and Russia have signed the document according to which our missiles are not targeted at each other's countries any more," Patrushev says. But to him, the agreement is irrelevant to his strategic mission: "I know that the missiles can be re-targeted in an hour even without returning [our ballistic missile submarines] to their bases."

Navy Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda was found outside his Washington D.C. home with a bullet wound in his chest. The death was immediately ruled a suicide. It was believed he committed suicide because he was about to be outed by Newsweek magazine for wearing valor medals he did not properly earn. A June 1998 naval report proved this assumption to be false, however. Adm. Boorda's boss John Dalton served in his post from 1993 until November 1998 (he announced his decision to leave in June). Prior to joining the Pentagon, Dalton was employed by Stephens Incorporated. Stephens Inc. became joint-owner of Little Rock's Worthen Bank with Mochtar Riady's Lippo Group in 1984. Mochtar's son, James Riady, was named the bank's director. Worthen loaned $3.5 million to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. Mochtar Riady was the biggest individual donor in the 1992 White House run. Both the FBI and CIA have stated they believe the Riadys to be agents of China. Stephens Inc. founder Jackson Stephens is a close friend and financial supporter of former President Bush. Ohmlaw 00

May 20, 1996
President Bill Clinton formally announced his decision to renew most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status for China during a speech to the Pacific Basin Economic Council.

May 21, 1996
CATIC signed a contract for parts before a public auction and shipped to China shortly thereafter several large machine tools including a 100' long stretch forming press used in manufacturing wing spars for the F- 14.

President Bill Clinton, in a speech, said he opposed the rapid deployment of a missile defense system to protect American cities. It makes no sense to build an anti-missile system, the president asserted, "before we know the details and dimensions of the threat we face."

President Bill Clinton's lawyer, trying to defer the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil lawsuit, in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court cites the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, which allows civil claims against military members to be delayed while they are on active duty. Clinton "seeks relief similar to that to which he may be entitled as Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, and which is routinely available to service members under his command," the brief says. Republicans and leaders of veterans groups reject the brief saying that it is outrageous for a man who managed to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, to hide behind a law meant to shield solders from lawsuits.

Federal authorities discovered an illegal cache of 2,000 AK-47s being smuggled into the U.S. aboard a COSCO ship………. The weapons were owned by China's arms distributer Poly Technologies. Poly Technologies was headed up by a man named Wang Jun. Wang Jun had coffee with President Clinton in the White House in February 1996 and dined with former President Bush in China during the second week of April 1996 as well. Just days before Clinton had coffee with Wang, he signed a waiver allowing Poly Technologies to ship 100,000 semi-automatic weapons to a Detroit, Michigan company that had ties to the Chinese military (Ron Brown met with Wang and suspected Chinese spy Charlie Trie the same day they met with Clinton. Brown and Wang previously met during the October 1995 meeting with representatives of Li Ka-Shing in Hong Kong) - The Poly Technologies weapons cache was siezed in March 1996, but arrest warrants were not issued until May 23, 1996.

May 28, 1996
The jury in the Whitewater trial delivered a guilty verdict for defendants Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Jim and Susan McDougal, Clinton's former business partners, of most of the fraud charges against them. After eight days of deliberations, the jury found Jim McDougal guilty of 18 of 19 charges, Susan McDougal guilty of all four charges against her and Gov. Tucker guilty of two of seven charges against him. In the first political fallout from the Whitewater verdicts, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker announced that he would resign.

W-88 administrative inquiry presented to FBI, which begins full investigation two days later. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

May 29, 1996
Calling the credibility of the White House into question, Rep. William Clinger (R-Pa.) introduced a resolution holding current and former White House aides in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents subpoenaed by Congress four months earlier Clinger's resolution, passed May 9 by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee which he chairs, holds White House Counsel Jack Quinn and two former White House aides in contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents in the White House travel office firings. "Using executive privilege for documents that have nothing to do with national security or sensitive matters, and nothing to do with the decision-making powers of the presidency and have everything to do with the character of this White House increases, I think, the president's credibility gap with the American people,".

Skirting a contempt resolution, the White House agreed to provide a congressional oversight committee with some 1,000 documents related to the travel office firings.

In a CNN/USA Today Gallup poll, Sixty percent of those surveyed say they think Clinton is hiding something regarding his role in Whitewater, compared to 51 percent in a similar poll in July 1995.

[Espionage] After the analysts reported to Deutch in November, a broader review, dominated by the Energy Department, reported similar conclusions in April 1996. Berger was then briefed that same month, and the F.B.I. opened its criminal investigation on May 30, 1996. - New York Times 6/27/99 James Risen Jeff Gerth

Late May 1996
At a spa, Dale Young, a family friend of White House intern Monica Lewinsky's, had conversations with Lewinsky about the former White House intern's claims of intimate contact with Clinton. Lewinsky, in this conversation, described a physical, intimate relationship with the president which "did not go to completion."

Federal bank examiners discovered that the central bank of China was moving tens of millions of dollars into the United States, depositing it in a maze of accounts controlled by a fast-rising Chinese executive at a small California bank [Far East National Bank] - NY TIMES 5/12/99 TIM GOLDEN and JEFF GERTH

FBI agents briefed two representativesof the National Security Council about the Chinese plan to influence the elections, The FBI placed no limitations on sharing the information, much of which the White House had independent access to through other means. See Reuters 10/19/97

Johnny Chung has meetings with Liu Chaoying, an executive of Chinese Aerospace Co., the company that builds and launches satellites and rockets, including the famed Long March brand. She was also a lieutenant colonel in People's Liberation Army, and daughter of a top Chinese General and Communist party leader. Liu attended a military institute for counter intelligence in China. China Aerospace owns a large piece of a Hong Kong satellite operator and also owns China Great Wall Industry Corp, the rocket company that launches both private satellites and tests and provides equipment for the missiles in China's nuclear arsenal. Great Wall had been sanctioned in 1991 and 1993 for selling missiles to Pakistan. [Alamo-Girl: CASIL also had links to Lippo.] Various Government 3/16/99 ohmlaw98

Filegate surfaces. At first, the WH claims only 34 files ended up in their hands. Later it is learned close to 1000 did. Blame is passed off on White House internal security chief (And former bar bouncer) Craig Livingstone. In later testimony, the WH claims they can't recall who hired Livingstone. Livingstone claims the same thing.

The FBI formally opens a criminal investigation into the theft of the W-88 design. The inquiry makes little progress over the rest of the year. When Energy Department officials ask about the inquiry at the end of 1996, they come away convinced that the bureau had assigned few resources to the case. New York Times 3/16/99 James Risen

Clinton has coffee with a group of Thai "chicken sellers" in the WH. The coffee is organized by Pauline Kanchanalak (A woman with ties to the PLA) with the help of John Huang. The "chicken sellers" lobby for Clinton to increase US military-related technology exports to Communist China. Ms. Kanchanalak is currently represented by Brown and Trie attorney Reid Weingarten.

FBI briefs representatives of the National Security Council (NSC) about Chinese attempts to influence the 1996 presidential elections. Janet Reno later refuses to appoint an IC to investigate the matter. See Reuters 10/19/97

Filegate surfaces. At first, the White House claims only 34 FBI files of Republicans ended up in their hands. Later it is learned close to 1000 did. Blame is passed off on White House internal security chief (And former bar bouncer) Craig Livingstone. In later testimony, the White House claims they cannot recall who hired Livingstone. Livingstone claims the same thing.

Documents reveal former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum requested FBI report on ousted Travel Office Director Billy Dale -- seven months after his dismissal.

The FBI formally opens a criminal investigation into the theft of the W-88 design. The inquiry makes little progress over the rest of the year. When Energy Department officials ask about the inquiry at the end of 1996, they come away convinced that the bureau had assigned few resources to the case.

White House releases remaining 2,000 documents relating to Travelgate. Infamous "White House Task List" is found among them.

U.S. barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia are bombed. U.S. officials believe Osama bin Laden was involved. Saudi officials differ. Billionaire bin Laden family's construction company is later hired to rebuild them. Osama bin Laden's brother is part owner of Iridium LLC. Iridium is a communications group that has worked with Loral and had their satellites launched on Chinese missiles. Osama is known to have ties with both Albania and the Kosovo Liberation Army.

James Riady sat at the head table with then-Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor at a dinner hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia. http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4a_riadyhuang.htm

The FBI briefs Janet Reno and representatives of the NSC about Chinese attempts to influence the 1996 presidential elections.

In late spring 1996, federal examiners discover the Central Bank of China funneled tens of millions of dollars into a maze of accounts controlled by Nan Nan Xu (Pronounced Shoo), a Chinese executive of Far East National Bank in California.

Filegate surfaces. At first, the White House claims only 34 FBI files of Republicans ended up in their hands. Later it is learned close to 1000 did. Travel Office documents reveal former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum requested FBI report on ousted Travel Office Director Billy Dale -- seven months after his dismissal.

Janet Reno extends Ken Starr's mandate again. This time to investigate Filegate.

A senator sends a note to FBI Director Louis Freeh saying his staff discovered IRS documents were included in the FBI files that found their way into the White House. Recently released report by FBI General Cousel Howard Shapiro made no mention of IRS documents. Shapiro would later give the White House "the heads up" about information pertaining to the Filegate investigation and an advanced copy of former-FBI agent Gary Aldrich's book, Unlimited Access, that detailed drug use and loose security in the first years of the Clinton administration. After leaving the FBI, Shapiro would become the attorney for Terry Lenzner, a private investigator hired by the Clintons, and Charles Bakaly, spokesman for independent counsel Ken Starr. Bakaly resigned from Starr's office in March 1999 after leaking information.

U.S. barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia are bombed.

June 3, 1996
Chinese National Chun-Fat Leung of the Zhen Fa group of China wired $101,985 from Hong Kong to Chung’s company, AISI. http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

* At the behest of the administration, Senate Democrats filibuster a bill that would deploy a national defense against incoming ballistic missiles.

June 5, 1996
The FBI began its inquiry into the illegal possesion of nearly 1,000 FBI files by the White House staff.

Clinton's Presidential Legal Expense Trust returns original $460,000 in donations solicited by Charlie Trie after the trust's lawyers hear from their appointed investigators.

Documents found reveal that former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum requested an FBI report on ousted travel office director Billy Dale seven months after his dismissal. Attorney General Janet Reno promptly announced that the Justice Department would coordinate an investigation of the matter with the FBI, and release the results to independent Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who was also looking into the travel office firings.

* Russia test-launches a six-warhead SS-19 ICBM from Baikonur, Kazakstan. All six warheads reportedly strike their targets around Kamchatka, on the Pacific Ocean. Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin, Strategic Rocket Forces Chief of Staff, says it is Russia's 26th ICBM test lunch in five years.

Loral's report to the State Department indicates that US and European aerospace industry officials examining the 1996 Chinese rocket crash got inadequate advice from Loral about what information could be shared with the Chinese. It also includes a possible defense strategy should the government take action against Loral

In a report released by the Air Force, investigators blamed a combination of pilot error and outdated navigational equipment on the aircraft for the April 3 jet crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in Croatia.

June 10, 1996
Johnny Chung brought Chinese National Chun-fat Leung of the Zhen Fa Group and his wife to a DNC fund-raiser at the Los Angeles home of Edie and Lew Wasserman. Only seven days earlier, Zhen Fa wired $101,985 from Hong Kong to Chung’s company, AISI. FEC records indicate that Chung made a $20,000 contribution to the DNC at that time. James Riady is also believed to have attended the event based on a DNC "commit list" that includes his name and a commitment for $15,000. http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

June 11, 1996
Johnny Chung’s assistant, Irene Wu, wrote to Education Secretary Richard Riley’s assistant, Sandy Rinck. The letter said, " Per our conversation, I am sending you the biography of Mr. Leung and a list of names who will be meeting with Secretary Riley." http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

June 12, 1996
President Bill Clinton apologized for the White House's obtaining of FBI files on leading Republicans and said it was an honest mistake that won't happen again. At a news conference, Clinton said, "I'm sorry that it occurred and I believe we will correct it and I believe the FBI will correct it as well." Republican rival Robert Dole has said the episode smacks of a Nixonian "enemies list," but Clinton said he "would never condone or tolerate any kind of enemies list or anything of that kind."

Johnny Chung wrote a letter to Education Secretary Richard Riley’s assistant, Sandy Rinck as follows: "I want to inform you of a misunderstanding between Ms. Rita Lewis of the DSCC and I. Since I became the #1 contributor [to] the DNC in 1995, I get a lot of calls from everyone for donations. But as much as I tried my best, I can not satisfy everyone. ... I believe [Mr. Leung] deserves the honor of meeting with our Secretary Riley.....Other than the DNC, I am also trying my best to support the DSCC whenever I can but sometimes it’s quite difficult. I hope you understand and will not let other issues come between our relationship. I am totally committed to the Democratic Party and to our president." http://www.tullahoma.net/burton/4c_chung.htm

The Senate Whitewater committee released two vastly different final reports on the investigation, split predictably along partisan lines.

At a Lockheed plant Bob Dole accused President Clinton of dragging his feet on missile defense. "Clinton's opposition to missile defense is one of the most negligent, short-sighted, irresponsible and potentially catastrophic policies in history," Dole said. It encourages terrorists to think about missile attacks, he said.

Liu Chaoying arrived in US from China.

It is announced in various media reports that Bruce Lindsey, will be named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a second Whitewater trial. Bankers Herbie Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hill are accused of misapplying $13,217 in funds from their bank to finance political contributions to Clinton's gubernatorial campaign and to other state and federal candidates.They are also accused of conspiring to hide from the IRS thousands of dollars in withdrawals by Clinton's campaign.

The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee began its probe into how and why the White House obtained hundreds of sensitive FBI background files.

Two Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters collide near Fort Campbell, Ky., just before the soldiers are to descend to a mockup of a downed helicopter and ``rescue'' soldiers pretending to be injured. Six people are killed and 30 injured. The Associated Press 4/9/00

* Deputy National Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger tells the Woodrow Wilson Center, "Because of President Clinton's agreement with President Yeltsin, Russian missiles no longer target American cities."

June 20, 1996
As a Senate committee launched hearings into the FBI files flap, Attorney General Janet Reno said she will ask for an expansion of Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's jurisdiction to include the files controversy.

June 21, 1996
Ten Republicans on the Senate Whitewater Committee asked independent counsel Kenneth Starr to review the testimony of three associates of the president and Mrs. Clinton, saying they might have violated the law in their Capitol Hill testimony.The subjects of the committee's criminal referral are White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell and lawyer Susan Thomases, a close adviser and friend of Mrs. Clinton. In their letter to Starr, the GOP senators cited what they called "a disturbing pattern of contradictory, incomplete or inaccurate testimony" from a number of witnesses.

June 24, 1996
The White House provides a statement in response to a new book reporting that, starting in late 1994, a troubled Hillary Rodham Clinton met with a spiritual advisor to help her deal with the pressures she faced following the defeat of the Clinton national health plan. The book is "The Choice" by Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward, described a series of meetings during which Mrs. Clinton, encouraged by spiritualist Jean Houston, had imaginary conversations with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi.

Secret files obtained by the White House on officials from Republican administrations allegedly included IRS as well as FBI records. In a letter to FBI Director Louis Freeh, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said Judiciary Committee staff discovered IRS documents while reviewing the controversial files.

Averting a contempt of Congress vote for the second time, the White House agreed to turn over 2,000 remaining documents related to the travel office firings scandal, with certain conditions attached.

At a press conference in the White House Hazel O'Leary made the following statement regarding her decision to overrule the State Department and allow the sale of super-computers to China and the sharing of technology. "Well, you've asked, I think, perhaps the most difficult and subtle question here," O'Leary responded, "and that is how does the United States, in partnership with others of the nuclear nations, go forward to ensure that we all begin to be able to move on to certifying safety and reliability. And I will discuss this with an example. One of the clear examples are some of our colleagues who are now asking for some of the supercomputers that now exist. Our requirements of the Department of Energy, working with all of our partners in the National Security Council, is to ascertain that everyone who wants the use of our supercomputers has peaceful uses in mind." Various Government 3/16/99 ohmlaw98

In documents it wasdiscovered that an additional 300 FBI files were obtained by the White House, among them files on former National Security advisor Brent Scowcroft and former CIA Director Robert Gates.

It was revealed that federal prosecutors wanted to indict former White House travel director Billy Dale before the 1994 mid-term elections.The charge emerged from FBI e-mail messages. The messages, obtained by congressional Republicans, date from fall 1994, when Dale was indicted. One reads: "I contacted Jane who advised that she was advised by (FBI special agent) Pam Bombardi, that (Department of Justice) trial attorney Stuart Goldberg had stated that she was to 'do the indictment before the elections, probably on Oct. 4, 1994," FBI employee Gregory Meacham wrote to a colleague by e-mail. "Since when do indictments hinge on election dates?" House Government Reform and Oversight Committee chairman William Clinger (R-Penn.) asked. Also, an FBI agent interviewed by Senate Republicans said he was pressured by top Clinton aides for confidential information on Dale. White House personnel security head Craig Livingstone resigned, and former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum apologized that the White House improperly collected some 700 FBI reports.

(Determination #96-35): $260,000,000 (for the Nantong II coal-fired power plant in Jiangsu Province).

June 28, 1996
Army civilian employee Anthony Marceca asserts the Fifth Amendment in response to all questions in the Filegate scandal Senate investigation.

* Russia's Pacific Fleet conducts its first-ever simultaneous test-launch of strategic nuclear missile submarines, ITAR-TASS reports. The operation, in which three Delta-class submarines fire multiple missiles from the Sea of Okhotsk just north of Japan to a target range on the Barents Sea just north of Europe--approximately of equal distance between the launch site and the western United States--rivals any conducted during the Cold War. According to a Pacific Fleet spokesman, the large and complex test was designed to confirm the "actual combat readiness" of Russia's naval strategic forces.

The same day, President Clinton proclaims, in a statement on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, "I have made reducing the nuclear threat one of my highest priorities. As a result, for the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, there are no Russian missiles pointed at our people."

(Determination #96-37): $120,000,000 (for non-nculear island balance...&Westinghouse engineering services to the nuclear island for two units of the Qinshan II nuclear power plant).

[Espionage] But in late June or July 1996, the F.B.I. dropped its investigation, a senior United States official said. The C.I.A. had just re-issued the W-88 document with a warning that the agency now believed that the source of the document was a double agent. The C.I.A.'s new assessment, coming a year after it had first received the document, led the F.B.I. to "stand down," or suspend, its investigation, the senior American official said. The suspension of the investigation lasted for about six weeks in the summer of 1996, according to the official. It resumed after the Energy Department assured the F.B.I. that even if the source was a double agent, the document nonetheless contained accurate, classified data about the W-88 warhead, and so represented a security breach.... But while the F.B.I. re-started its investigation, it remained a low priority, F.B.I. officials now concede. Only one or two agents were assigned to the investigation in 1996, officials say. By 1997, when the Justice Department denied the F.B.I.'s request to seek court authorization to wiretap and electronically monitor Lee, a move that has since become the subject of congressional inquiry, the F.B.I. still had only three or four agents on the case. - New York Times 6/27/99 James Risen Jeff Gerth

July, 1996
Loral obtained President Clinton's approval to orbit a chain of 48 Globalstar satellites from Kazakhstan. The first satellites are scheduled to be launched on top of the Russian built Zenit and Soyuz boosters in 1999. Loral's CEO, Bernard Schwartz, also donated over one million dollars to the DNC.

China conducts it's final atomic test and says it will explode no more nuclear weapons in tests.

From October 1993 to July 1996 the PRC raised$2.7 billion on six bond issues. Insight Magazine Vol. 13, No. 17 5/12/97 By Timothy W. Maier.

TWA flight 800 explodes after take-off in New York. Shortly after, Senator Orin Hatch tells the press he is almost 100% certain the plane was blown up by sabotage days after receiving a briefing by Louis Freeh.

An unnamed White House official tells press