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REBECCA MACKINNON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Lou, Chinese officials do continue to deny all allegations of spying or acquiring American nuclear or any other military technology. Rebecca MacKinnon brings us up-to-date from Beijing. In point of fact, China's denial is ringing across the world after this story first broke.
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The other - why did the Clinton administration loosen restrictions on technology exports to China at the same time it knew about the spying?ĭOBBS: Two important questions, and obviously, the subject tonight of congressional scrutiny.Ĭhina, for its part, is denying altogether these allegations, but looking at government documents, "Moneyline" has uncovered a pattern of travel among the facilities of Los Alamos, China and Russia. One concerns the extent of the damage from the Los Alamos incident. We must not.ĭORMAN: The Senate Intelligence Committee will begin hearings on the China espionage issue next week, with closed sessions.Īs for the investigations, at least two questions may be difficult to answer. RICHARD SHELBY, R-ALA., CHAIRMAN, SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE: There has been too much of a lax attitude at a lot of our premier labs, and we cannot have that. Those kinds of things ought not to persist. CHRISTOPHER COX, R-CALIF.: Foreign visitors are able to come in and have access to materials that are very sensitive, including our nuclear weapons information. But even after learning of that history, the Clinton administration was not quick to act.
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Details of the incidents remain classified. The report goes on to say there have been espionage activities against Department of Energy labs in the 1980s and the 1990s. In September 1997, the GAO wrote in 61-page report, "The risk that classified or sensitive information may be compromised through foreign espionage is real and has been long-standing." A report by the Government Accounting Office, obtained by CNNfn, laid out security questions surrounding national laboratories long before the Clinton administration took action last year.
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The most serious target remains Los Alamos, a problem Vice President Gore says the Clinton administration inherited.ĪLBERT GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This happened in the previous administration, and the law enforcement agencies have pressed it and pursued it aggressively with our full support.ĭORMAN: But that pursuit was neither immediate nor vigorous. And this is the building, this building behind me - the administration complex here at the national laboratory - where the Taiwanese-born Chinese-American worked, who has been fired under suspicion for years of passing on the design of that sophisticated technology.īut the growing scandal involves more than one man suspected of betrayal and espionage.īill Dorman has more on this story from Washington.īILL DORMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Los Alamos is where the headlines are, but government officials familiar with security policy tell CNN Financial News investigations are widening to include activities at Sandia National Weapons Laboratory in New Mexico and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California. What has been stolen is a sophisticated miniaturized warhead technology. It is also ground zero in what is arguably the most alarming nuclear espionage scandal in nearly 50 years, certainly since the Rosenbergs.
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This is the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Here is a transcript of the special report from Tuesday's Moneyline News Hour with Lou Dobbs": (CNNfn) - The alleged theft of nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory has raised serious questions about national security, thrusting this top-secret research lab and its employees into the international spotlight.
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Transcript includes interviews with Richardson, Kissinger, Hormats Transcript of Moneyline's special report - Mar.