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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things from those around you. Parents, teachers and other adults see only the facade that you want them to see. If Eric and Dylan didn't want their parents to know what was going on in their lives, their folks wouldn't have been able to figure it out. SYLVIA ALBERT, 17 Northridge, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...forget such wonderful characters like Dentist Dan, who "filks my cavakies/Wid choclut cangy...The graygest nentis in the lan." Or poor Peggy Ann McKay (sick with the measles, mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps), Backwards Bill (who puts on his underwear over his clothes) and Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who never had a playmate because she never took the garbage...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Sidewalk Ends for Silverstein | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

Just as FBI counterespionage agents were drawing a bead on Los Alamos nuclear-weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, the files disgorged a curious fact: Lee's wife Sylvia had been an FBI "informational asset" at the very time Lee was suspected of passing classified warhead data to the People's Republic of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The FBI and Los Alamos' Mysterious Mrs. Lee | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant, sources say, but a volunteer who passed along what she heard and saw at social confabs arranged for foreign visitors. Senior counterintelligence hands didn't consider her reports particularly useful. In 1991, after her agent contact retired and she moved to a job that provided little access to foreign visitors, the Albuquerque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The FBI and Los Alamos' Mysterious Mrs. Lee | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Just as FBI counterespionage agents were drawing a bead on Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, the files disgorged a curious fact: Lee's wife, Sylvia, had been an FBI "informational asset" at the very time Lee was suspected of passing classified warhead data to the People's Republic of China. From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI and Los Alamos' Mysterious Mrs. Lee | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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