Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime suspect is Taiwanese-born American scientist Wen Ho Lee, 59, who first began working in Los Alamos in the 1970s. A well-placed government source tells TIME that Lee traveled to a 1988 seminar in Hong Kong and, with Chinese officials present, allegedly divulged sensitive information on the miniaturization involved in the design of America's most modern warhead, the W-88. In 1995 the CIA obtained a secret Chinese-government document that discussed details of the W-88. The document was dated 1988--the year the warhead went into production and a year in which Lee also visited...
...Saturday, March 6, the New York Times broke an extensive story on the scandal, and the FBI swept in. They started questioning Lee gently on Saturday then turned up the heat. By 10 p.m. on Sunday, a U.S. official informs TIME, Lee announced, "I'm not going to tell you anything, and I'm ready to go to jail." On Monday, Lee finally lost his job for allegedly breaking security rules: failing to report contacts with people from "sensitive" countries, failing to "safeguard" classified material and giving deceptive answers. So far, no criminal charges have been brought against...
...Berger was told about the case and encouraged the FBI to investigate, but he took no steps to increase security at Los Alamos. ("I get similar briefings once a month," shrugs a White House official.) Only in July 1997, after another briefing on laxity at the labs, did Berger tell Clinton. Berger assigned an interagency group to draft tougher security rules for the labs; Clinton signed them in February 1998. The span of six months from briefing to directive, says a Clinton aide, "is actually pretty quick...
...these rooms if you're not going to shed light on the most mystifying marriage on the planet? Still, it's this breach of confidence that bothers Carville most. "Even if I were in Starr's bedroom," he says, "I'd respect his privacy. I wouldn't tell you about...
...case of cloak-and-dagger, it's sometimes hard to tell exactly who's snookering whom. Four Pillars recently turned the tables and filed suit in China and Taiwan, charging that in the late '80s and early '90s, Avery lured the much smaller Four Pillars (annual sales: $140 million) into discussion about a joint venture in China in order to steal manufacturing information so it could set up its own competing factory. Intriguingly, Four Pillars will argue that by luring the government into the case and helping the FBI set up a sting operation, Avery used the Economic Espionage...