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...David H. Chin '86, Robert M. Neer '86 and Natacha I. Barber '86 were notified last week that the Fulbright program will cover all of their expenses for a year of study abroad...
...Chin, a Quincy House resident, received the more prestigious ITT Fellowship of the Fulbright program. The ITT Corporation, a Fulbright sponsor, reviews all the applicants before the Fulbright board has access to them. ITT then chooses the most qualified students, offering them more lucrative awards...
...meek appearance masked the fact that Larry Wu-Tai Chin was a master of deception. For nearly 30 years, Chin, 63, a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Peking, lived a double life. While working as a highly valued translator and analyst for the CIA, he also passed classified documents to the People's Republic of China. His duplicity earned him at least $300,000, and though he gambled much of it away, he had parlayed his take into real estate and other investments worth $700,000. Throughout his four-day trial, Chin insisted that he had only...
When the jury found him guilty, Chin showed no emotion. But that too, it seems, was just another ruse. Last week in a Virginia county jail, where he was being held pending a March 17 sentencing, Larry Chin committed suicide. Police say Chin appeared fine when guards brought breakfast to his cell. But later in the morning, they found the inmate lying unconscious with a plastic bag wrapped around his head. Efforts to revive him failed...
...Chin, who earned at least $300,000 as a spy from 1952 to 1985, offered his remarkable admission in an attempt to characterize his espionage as a personal campaign for reconciliation between his homeland and his adopted country. Of the Nixon document, he said, "I thought if that information could be brought to the attention of the Chinese leadership it might break the ice." It took the jury just 3 1/2 hours to find Chin guilty on 17 felony charges, including six counts of espionage-related activities. Chin faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment...