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.
Like Dianne Fineswine, who shills for her hubby in all dealings with the chineeeze, for instance.
Remember, she was all over herself apologising to china for that P3 incident.
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