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...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...
...double agent. After a year of surveilling her movements and monitoring her phone calls, faxes and e-mails, they confronted Leung last December. She admitted to her relationship with Smith and produced classified documents from her safe. These included memos on Chinese fugitives and informants, directories of FBI personnel and files from the espionage case of Peter Lee, a defense-contractor employee who pleaded guilty in 1997 to giving secret radar technology to China...
...FBI is investigating what went wrong. Its rules require that two agents handle informants, in part to avoid inappropriate relationships. And the large payments to Leung would have required approval from supervisors. When FBI Director Robert Mueller learned details of the case, say bureau sources, he was furious. He removed the division director, named a special task force to investigate the case and moved the entire human-asset operation to the new office of intelligence...
...repercussions for agents Smith and Cleveland are deeply personal. Smith, 59, admitted to the affair after the FBI had recorded him having sex with Leung in an L.A. hotel. Smith, who through his attorneys denies any wrongdoing, was charged with gross negligence and released on bail. Cleveland, who was not charged (and declined to talk to TIME), left the bureau in 1993 and took a job at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear-weapons research facility. He resigned last week, and the lab is investigating whether any of its classified data were leaked. As for Leung, she remains...
...today, U.S. citizens can be jailed indefinitely, without charge, if they are suspected of terrorism. The FBI can now investigate American citizens without probable cause of their involvement with a crime. And the mere accusation of being an “enemy combatant” is enough to land you in a Navy brig without access to a lawyer...