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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...saga began in the early 1980s, when James J. Smith, an agent in the bureau's foreign counterintelligence unit in Los Angeles, recruited Leung. Under the code name Parlor Maid, she received $1.7 million from the FBI over nearly two decades. The bureau says the two quickly began a sexual relationship that continued after Smith retired in 2000. During rendezvous at Leung's home, investigators say, she took documents from Smith's briefcase and photocopied them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To China with Love | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Leung's other lover was an FBI agent in San Francisco, whom bureau sources identified as William Cleveland Jr. In 1991, three years into this affair, Cleveland was listening to an electronic intercept of a phone call to a Chinese intelligence officer and recognized Leung's voice. Realizing the FBI had not authorized her to make such contacts, Cleveland alerted Smith, her chief handler, who said he would speak with Leung. Other counterintelligence officials also may have missed signals that Leung was a double agent and continued to use her as an informant. The FBI is now poring over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To China with Love | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...considered against a British brigadier, other army officers and serving members of the police. Dogged work by English detectives exposed an astonishing web of intrigue. One of the guns used to kill the lawyer was stolen from the British army. The weapons were given to the killers by an agent of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. A British army operative gave the gunmen a photo of Finucane and showed them where he lived. One of the murderers was later recruited to work for the police, and his confession to the killing was ignored. Soldiers and police could have prevented the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Secret Army | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...award's long-time administrator, and a woman with whom you do not want to battle over "Little Lulu" trivia. The other four judges included Charles Vess, a longtime comix artist and illustrator; Jeremy Shorr, a jocular Texan who runs a comic store in Dallas; Steve Leaf, a purchasing agent for Diamond, America's largest comic distributor; and Jen Contino, a fellow web-based comix journalist. With the exception of Jen, who stayed home for personal reasons, we were all flown into San Diego to gather like the members of the Mission: Impossible team. Soon we were hunkered down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ...Just to be Nominated | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...said of Travis Nesbitt in the role of his childlike American counterpart, Freddie Trumper. Nesbitt, though excellent when dancing, projects poorly, and in dialogue overplays his gestures to the point of ridiculousness. Bobby A. Hodgson ’05 does a very good job as Walter Anderson, a CIA agent masquerading as Freddie’s agent, and Nicholas R. Adams ’03 and Matt J. Weinstock ’05 do well as the KGB details assigned to Sergievsky...

Author: By Patrick D. Blanchfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Review: Checkered Game of ‘Chess’ Ends in Stalemate | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

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