DATE=5/30/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-250000
TITLE=U-S NUCLEAR SPYING (S & L)
BYLINE=DAVID SWAN
DATELINE=WASHINGTON
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: THE U-S ENERGY SECRETARY SAYS HE WILL SOON FIRE SOME
EMPLOYEES IN THE WAKE OF ALLEGATIONS ABOUT CHINESE SPYING AT
NUCLEAR WEAPONS LABS. CORRESPONDENT DAVID SWAN REPORTS ON THE
CONTINUING DEBATE OVER THE ISSUE.
TEXT: THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION INSISTS IT HAS TIGHTENED
SECURITY TO STOP ANY NEW THEFT OF SECRETS. APPEARING ON N-B-C
TELEVISION ("MEET THE PRESS"), ENERGY SECRETARY BILL RICHARDSON
SAYS THERE WILL BE FURTHER STEPS, INCLUDING THE FIRING AND
DEMOTION OF THOSE TO BLAME FOR PAST LOSSES.
// RICHARDSON ACT //
THERE WERE COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWNS. THERE WERE
INCOMPETENT ACTS. SECURITY WAS NOT CONSIDERED IMPORTANT
AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE WAS NOT CONSIDERED AS IMPORTANT
AS IT SHOULD BE.
// END ACT //
CHINA HAS REPEATEDLY DENIED SPYING. BUT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
CHRISTOPHER COX, WHO LED THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CASE, SAYS
BEIJING DOES NOT HAVE AMERICA'S BEST INTERESTS AT HEART.
// COX ACT //
WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT IN MANY RESPECTS, DESPITE THE
NEW ECONOMIC FREEDOMS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA,
THEY REMAIN A POLICE STATE.
// END ACT //
SECRETARY RICHARDSON CONFIRMS A (NEWSWEEK) REPORT THAT AN INDIAN
SCIENTIST WAS DISMISSED FROM AN AMERICAN NUCLEAR LAB. BUT HE
SAYS THAT CASE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SPYING.
/// REST OPTIONAL FOR LONG ///
MR. RICHARDSON SAYS THE MAN HAD TIES TO AN INDIAN NUCLEAR
RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND HIS EXPULSION WAS TRIGGERED BY SANCTIONS
THE U-S GOVERNMENT IMPOSED AFTER INDIA TESTED A NUCLEAR DEVICE.
// RICHARDSON ACT //
ONE OR TWO OTHERS WERE ALSO EXPELLED FROM SOME OF OUR
SCIENCE LABS. BUT IT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF ESPIONAGE. IT
WAS BECAUSE INDIA TOOK THAT NEGATIVE STEP IN DETONATING
THAT WEAPON LAST YEAR.
// END ACT //
THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE CHINESE ESPIONAGE CASE, WEN HO LEE, HAS
ALSO BEEN FIRED FROM THE LOS ALAMOS LAB, BUT HAS YET TO BE
FORMALLY CHARGED. (SIGNED)
NEB/DS/RAE
30-May-99 1:27 PM EDT (1727 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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