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Chinese-American Double Agent Arrested in L.A.
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Posted on 04/09/2003 4:36:11 PM PDT by maui_hawaii
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Chinese-American woman helping U.S. government agents as "an asset on China" allegedly stole classified documents from her FBI agent lover and then sent them to China, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Katrina Leung, 49, was arrested along with her lover, retired FBI Agent James J. Smith, 59. She was charged with obtaining documents related to national defense for the advantage of a foreign nation.
Smith, a 30-year FBI veteran of the foreign counter-intelligence squad who retired in 2000, is charged with allowing access to classified information through gross negligence.
Affidavits unsealed by a federal magistrate in Los Angeles on Wednesday showed that Leung was paid from 1983 to 2002 as a U.S. government "asset" providing information about China to the FBI.
Smith was Leung's principal FBI handler. He would come over to her house with a briefcase full of classified documents and when his back was turned she would make copies of the documents, prosecutors said.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: china; espionage
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To: maui_hawaii
A Chinese-American woman helping U.S. government agents as "an asset on China" allegedly stole classified documents from her FBI agent lover and then sent them to China..Is Jane Fonda still at it?
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:38:59 PM PDT
by
gramho12
(God bless our troops)
To: maui_hawaii
It's nice to see the adults back in charge!
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:39:32 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
To: All
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:40:11 PM PDT
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To: maui_hawaii
When he back was turned??? Is anyone really buying that???
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:41:48 PM PDT
by
cynicom
To: maui_hawaii
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:42:25 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Saddam's latest message was a very simple one: ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ...)
To: syriacus
good catch. very good catch.
To: cynicom
Is anyone buying that?
Apparently someone didn't :o)
To: maui_hawaii
China, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Katrina Leung, 49, was arrested along with her lover, retired FBI Agent James J. Smith, 59. Now *THAT* is what I call a "perk"!
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:54:18 PM PDT
by
The Duke
To: maui_hawaii
Smith was Leung's principal FBI handler. Umhm.
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:54:24 PM PDT
by
k2blader
("Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful." - C. S. Lewis)
To: Alamo-Girl
DSL ping
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:55:40 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: cynicom
>>>...
When he back was turned??? Is anyone really buying that??? Probably turned his back while he unzipped.
To: cynicom
His back was turned... like Al Gore's. A man has to excuse himself and go pee when he drinks too much iced tea, you know. I wanna know where the Buddhist monks were hiding during this affair.
To: maui_hawaii
Ahh, the FBI. Does their incompetence ever stop?
To: k2blader
Smith was Leung's principal FBI handler
So to speak, of course there could have been others, X42 comes to mind.
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posted on
04/09/2003 4:58:11 PM PDT
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: k2blader
Smith was Leung's principal FBI handler.Apparently.
Katrina Leung, 49, was arrested along with her lover, retired FBI Agent James J. Smith
To: maui_hawaii
Death penalty
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posted on
04/09/2003 5:02:45 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: Diddle E. Squat
Also on the other thread is an article from ABC with this tidbit: "...Katrina Leung, a Republican party activist in California..."
To: Diddle E. Squat
Undoubtedly.
This China problem runs deep, and its not just the Clintons. Half of the Senate are in bed with some businessmen who pay them to vote for China on this or that. That half isn't the Democrat half. Its not a party affiliation issue.
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