A Convenient Spy
Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage
by Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman
"No espionage case in recent decades has been anything like the Wen Ho Lee affair. As Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman describe in A Convenient Spy, an astonishingly inept investigation of a crime that may never have occurred ended in a national disgrace. A weapons-code scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lee was hunted as a spy for China, indicted of fifty-nine counts, and held in detention for nine months as a threat to the entire nation.
But after pleading guilty to just one count, he went home - with an unusual and emotional apology from a federal judge. Prosecutors' claims that Lee had stolen America's "crown jewels" of nuclear security simply evaporated. Yet Lee's motives have never been satisfactorily explained, and his often-repeated excuse that he was just backing up his work files does not stand up to scrutiny."--BOOK JACKET.
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A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage
2002-01-08, Simon & Schuster
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"World War II had just begun in Europe when Wen Ho Lee was born-December 21, 1939."
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