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Did
Katrina and Her FBI Lovers Have Influence on U.S.
1996 Elections?
April 27,
2003 / Lieberman asks
for an inquiry in connection with spying
allegations against Katrina Leung.
-----Citing concern
that an alleged spy case may also have tainted the
nation's political system, U.S. Sen. Joseph I.
Lieberman (D-Conn.) has asked federal authorities
to investigate whether suspected double agent
Katrina M. Leung illegally funneled money into
campaigns at the direction of China.
-----In a letter to
U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller III, Lieberman noted that the
lengthy 1997 congressional investigation into the
1996 federal elections and, particularly, the
Democratic campaign of then-President Bill Clinton
was based largely on information provided by the
FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
-----"I am asking that
you investigate whether firm evidence has now
arisen" that Chinese officials influenced U.S.
elections through campaign contributions, Lieberman
wrote.
-----Press accounts
and public records, Lieberman said, show that
Leung, a San Marino businesswoman, was active in
political circles and contributed to the Republican
National Committee. He cited a 1997 story in The
Times in which Leung dismissed allegations that an
Indonesian businessman she knew might be a Beijing
political operative.
-----"The prospect of
a foreign government illegally influencing our
political campaigns is a very troubling one, and
any evidence that that might have occurred must be
vigilantly investigated and pursued," Lieberman
wrote.
-----FBI officials
have said their investigation of Leung and her FBI
contact, former Los Angeles counterintelligence
agent James Smith, would include every aspect of
their work during a 20-year association that
included a romance. Officials also have
acknowledged that Smith's assignments included the
bureau's 1997 campaign finance investigation.
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May
1, 2003 / Congress Rejects Katrina Spy
Case
----- May 1, 2003 /
WASHINGTON The Republican leadership has rejected a
request for a prompt hearing into the FBI's
handling of accused China double agent Katrina M.
Leung, saying any congressional oversight should be
delayed until the bureau and the Justice Department
complete their own reviews of the spy
episode..
----- "Given the
current pending criminal case and the FBI's and
Justice Department inspector general's ongoing
efforts to investigate this matter, I do not
believe that now is the appropriate time to conduct
oversight hearings on this matter," Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch
(R-Utah) said in a letter released
Wednesday..
----- A group of
senior lawmakers Sens. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.),
Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Arlen Specter
(R-Pa.) pressed Hatch last week for an immediate
congressional investigation of the case, saying it
raised major concerns about national security and
the FBI's use of informants in counterintelligence
operations..
----- Leung was
arrested April 9 and charged with passing
classified information to China that she got from
James J. Smith, a top FBI counterintelligence agent
in Los Angeles who was also her lover, prosecutors
say. Attorneys for Leung, who was paid $1.7 million
over 20 years as an informant for the FBI, have
said she was merely doing what the bureau and its
agents told her to do. Smith, who retired from the
FBI in 2000, was charged with negligent handling of
classified information. In his response to the
three senators, Hatch said he would support a "full
review" by the Judiciary Committee of the FBI and
Justice probes, once they are complete, "to
determine whether there are additional steps the
committee should take to prevent future national
security
breaches.".
----- Leahy said the
delay is unjustified. "It's difficult for me to
understand why we can't find time to come to grips
with issues that are jeopardizing our security," he
said.
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Why
No Lie Detector Test Given To
Katrina?
May 2, 2003 / It was suggested that suspect be
tested in the mid-1990s, U.S. officials say, but
she was not.\By Greg Krikorian and Scott Glover,
Times Staff
Writers.
----- Years before
Katrina Leung's arrest for allegedly obtaining
secret documents for China, officials at FBI
headquarters in Washington, D.C., suggested that
she submit to a polygraph test because of questions
about her reliability, according to federal law
enforcement
officials..
----- But Leung, who
allegedly worked for China for decades while the
FBI thought she was spying for the United States,
never took the test in the
mid-1990s..
----- One former
Justice Department official involved in the Leung
case said she refused to take the test. Other
sources close to the investigation say that
although it is certain she did not take a test, the
reason is unclear. The sources said they could find
no written record of any refusal by
Leung..
----- "All we know is
that she didn't take it," said one
official..
----- Janet I. Levine,
one of Leung's lawyers, said her client had never
refused an order to take a polygraph test. "Katrina
Leung did as she was directed, and was at all times
a loyal American," Levine wrote in a prepared
statement..
----- In a telephone
interview, Levine said she knew neither whether the
topic of a polygraph had been broached on a less
formal basis nor whether Leung may have said she
preferred not to take the
exam..
----- Leung was
arrested April 9 with her longtime handler, former
FBI agent James J. Smith. Smith's attorney, Brian
Sun, said that his client never received a
directive from FBI headquarters in the mid-1990s to
have Leung take a
polygraph..
----- It was unclear
whether a lie detector test could have helped the
FBI uncover Leung's alleged treachery years before
May 2000, when the bureau launched an investigation
into her and Smith, her longtime FBI contact and
alleged lover..
----- Sources close to
the investigation say that Leung, a highly regarded
informant for nearly two decades, passed two lie
detector tests in the 1980s. The suggestion that
she be given another exam in the mid-1990s was
prompted by "inconsistencies" in some of her
reports to the FBI, but it was never pressed by
headquarters, according to one
official..
----- Nearly a month
after the arrests of Leung and Smith, current and
former FBI officials continue to voice concern that
the bureau missed several opportunities to uncover
the case years earlier. "If the informant was asked
and declined to take a polygraph, it would
certainly be another alarm," said one former
assistant
director..
----- Rep. Jane Harman
(D-Venice), the ranking Democrat on the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said
Thursday that she remains troubled by the potential
damage to national security allegedly caused by
Leung and Smith..
----- "I am very
concerned about this case and I don't know how far
it will go," Harman said in an interview. "No one
is claiming yet that we have gotten to the bottom
of this case.".
----- Harman, who was
briefed Thursday by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
and CIA Director George Tenet, praised the breadth
and depth of the FBI's current investigation. She
said she was optimistic that "the same vigilance
that unearthed this problem is being employed" by
the FBI as it investigates the Leung
case..
----- She said she had
received assurances that investigators would leave
"no stone unturned" in pursuing the case well
beyond the Los Angeles field office and FBI
headquarters..
----- "If it goes to
San Francisco and other offices, so be it," said
Harman..
----- As far back as
1991, records and interviews show, Leung's actions
drew concerns at the FBI. Though a prized "asset,"
the Chinese businesswoman rankled
counterintelligence officials when it was
discovered that she had made unauthorized contact
with a Chinese
official..
----- A now-retired
FBI agent in San Francisco approached then-Agent
Smith with worries about Leung after discovering
her voice on an "intercepted conversation" with a
Chinese official. That same year, the two agents
discussed the issue with FBI officials in
Washington, where it was decided that Leung's
actions would be handled by
Smith..
----- The former
Justice Department official involved in the Leung
case said that when Leung declined to take the
exam, officials at FBI headquarters "did not press"
the matter because they were worried about losing
her as a counterintelligence
source..
----- Other law
enforcement officials versed in
counterintelligence, however, said it would not be
surprising if Leung or any longtime source would
decline a polygraph, especially in the murky world
of informants and
espionage..
----- "It was not
outside the norm for an informant to refuse a
polygraph and we knew that was a possibility," said
one federal law enforcement source. "You are not
dealing with choir boys here. They are reluctant
because of their past or because of things they are
currently involved
in.".
----- One former FBI
official who worked for years in
counterintelligence agreed. "This is always a
difficult area when you are dealing with long-term
assets," said the official, who had no role in this
case. "To be successful at what they do, informants
or sources have to be liars, so there is almost no
way they could ever pass a
polygraph.".
----- But one current
counter-terrorism agent disagreed, insisting that
polygraph examinations with all their potential
pitfalls can be helpful in assessing an informant's
credibility. And, the agent said, any source worth
keeping had to be willing at any time to submit to
a polygraph..
----- "If one of mine
tried to [refuse], I would make it clear
this is not open to discussion," said the agent.
"Either you do this or the relationship is over. It
is not an
option.".
----- Even with her
later arrest as a suspected double agent, the
sources agreed, it is impossible to say whether a
polygraph could have helped the FBI uncover Leung's
alleged betrayal..
----- "I don't think
anybody knows whether the polygraph would have made
a difference," one official said.
///
Updates:
Did Katrina Have
Influence on U.S.1996 Elections, ask
Congres?
Lawmakers To Study FBI
Handling of China Counter-Spy
-----A
letter released today says the arrest of accused
Chinese double agent Katrina Leung is among cases
that underscore "long-standing concern" about FBI
dealings with informants.
-----10:29 AM PDT,
April 28, 2003 / From Associated Press - WASHINGTON
-- The FBI's handling of confidential informants
should be a key part of Senate hearings into the
arrests on spying charges of a former FBI
counterintelligence agent and an alleged Chinese
double-agent, three senior senators say.
-----"We believe that
it is incumbent on the Judiciary Committee to
examine whether there are larger security issues
that continue to persist," said a letter signed by
Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Charles Grassley,
R-Iowa; and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
-----The letter to
Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch requests
hearings as soon as possible into the case of
former FBI agent James J. Smith and Katrina Leung,
a Los Angeles businesswoman and socialite who is
accused of being a Chinese double agent --; and
also Smith's longtime lover.
-----Smith is free on
bond; Leung has been jailed without bond since the
two were arrested April 9.
-----The letter
released today said the Leung case, as well as the
FBI's handling of informants in the Boston case of
fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, underscore
"long-standing concern" about FBI dealings with
informants.
-----In the Boston
case, former FBI agent John Connolly is serving a
10-year prison sentence for protecting Bulger and
another crime kingpin. While senior FBI officials
have portrayed Connolly and several colleagues as
rogue agents, there were also at least 26 memos
written between the Boston field office and FBI
headquarters indicating top officials knew what was
going on.
-----It remains
unclear exactly how much officials at FBI
headquarters knew about Smith and Leung, who is
accused of passing classified information she took
from Smith to the People's Republic of China. Leung
was Smith's intelligence asset for 18 years, during
which time the two also had a sexual relationship,
prosecutors say.
-----"If even a
portion of the allegations raised in the public
affidavit are true, we cannot afford to wait until
yet another breach of national security occurs
before we work with the FBI to improve security and
the handling of confidential informants," the
senators' letter says.
-----A spokeswoman for
Hatch, a Utah Republican, did not immediately
return a telephone call seeking reaction.
-----Sen. Joseph
Lieberman, D-Conn., also has asked for a Justice
Department and FBI investigation. He wants to know
whether any of Leung's contributions to Republican
campaigns came from the Chinese government.
-----Lieberman's
Republican-controlled committee conducted an
investigation in 1997 into whether Chinese
government officials tried to influence the 1996
election with donations to Democratic candidates.
The committee's findings were inconclusive.
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WAS
KATRINA REALLY a double agent ?
-----April
22, 2003. A special team of FBI agents has arrived
in Los Angeles to question bureau personnel over
management lapses that may have allowed an alleged
double agent access to U.S. secrets.
-----Eight agents from
the FBI's inspections unit will question bureau
personnel who worked in the agency's Chinese
counterintelligence unit and in other parts of the
office. The probe is to "assess responsibility for
the management lapses," that allowed the scandal to
occur, FBI director Robert S. Mueller said.
-----FBI spokeswoman
Cheryl Mimura in Los Angeles said the inspectors
would be here "as long as it takes to finish up
their inquiries. We're putting as much manpower
into this as we need to. We will help them in any
way we can," she said.
-----A former FBI
agent, who has been following the probe closely,
said his understanding is that the inspectors,
known inside the FBI as "the goon squad," will
"turn this place upside down."
-----"They are going
to be asking every agent," who might have any
knowledge of the scandal what they know about the
case and why they did not come forward earlier, the
former agent said.
-----The former agent
added that he had been informed that one agent in
the Los Angeles office already had declined to
answer questions from the inspectors. Mimura
declined to respond to questions on that
subject.
-----On April 8,
Mueller announced that Katrina M. Leung, a Chinese
American businesswoman from San Marino, had been
arrested and accused of taking classified documents
and passing them to the Chinese. She is being held
without bail.
-----A former Los
Angeles agent, James J. Smith, who was Leung's FBI
"handler" for two decades, was arrested the same
day and charged with gross negligence for allegedly
permitting Leung to gain access to the documents.
He has been released on $250,000 bail.
-----Attorneys for
Leung and Smith have said that their clients have
not broken any law and said they will receive a
vigorous defense.
-----Smith and Leung
had a sexual relationship for many years, according
to allegations in court documents. FBI sources have
said that the investigation began before Smith
retired from the bureau's counterintelligence squad
in Los Angeles in November 2000.
-----During Leung's 20
years as an FBI "asset," she was paid about $1.7
million in fees and expenses.
-----FBI regulations
specify that whenever an informant is paid, at
least two agents have to be present and verify in
writing the payment was made. The former agent said
he had been told that, among other matters, the FBI
inspectors are investigating whether that rule was
followed in Smith's dealings with Leung. Former
assistant FBI director Bill Baker said he expected
the probe would be thorough. "I'm sure this is a
specially selected team," including agents with
backgrounds in counterintelligence work, Baker
said.
-----"The post mortem
on this will be how well did the L.A. office and
the FBI [in Washington] look at the
long-term relationship" between Smith and Leung,
particularly because the bureau received
information as long ago as 1991 that Leung was
having unauthorized contacts with Chinese
intelligence agencies.
-----The probe here is
one of three internal investigations being
conducted by the FBI in this case.
-----Mueller has also
ordered a top-to-bottom review of practices and
procedures governing how agents handle informants.
And he has asked Glenn Fine, the Justice
Department's inspector general, "to conduct a
thorough review of the performance and management
issues relating to this case."
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Is
the FBI Trying To Clear Katrina?
April 25, 2003 - Times Sources say FBI officials
knew of Katrina Leung and Agent James Smith's
relationship, but looked the other way despite a
potential security threat
-----Smith, 59, and
Leung, 49, were arrested April 9, 2003. Leung is
accused of having taken classified documents and
passing them to the Chinese. She is being held
without bail in the Metropolitan Detention Center
in downtown Los Angeles. She has denied any
wrongdoing. Her lawyers have said she was merely
doing what Smith and other FBI officials had asked
her to do during a more than 20-year career as an
FBI spy during which she was paid $1.7 million.
-----Smith was charged
with gross negligence for allegedly having allowed
Leung access to the classified material she is
suspected of providing to the Chinese. He is free
on $250,000 bond.
-----How Smith managed
for years to sidestep the regulations governing
counterintelligence sources remains a source of
embarrassment for the FBI because some of his
actions were known to top officials, records and
interviews show.
-----Although veteran
FBI agents acknowledge that meeting alone with
sources occurs more frequently than it should, they
expressed surprise that Smith did so repeatedly and
with the knowledge of superiors.
-----"It is one of
those things that you don't want to happen," an FBI
official said. "But we know it did happen here and
people, apparently, just looked the other way."
-----Said another
source: "People understood he had a very close
relationship with her [and] though it was a
technical violation of the rules, I don't think
anyone saw it as the world's biggest infraction. In
hindsight, however, it was."
-----Shortly after the
2000 meeting with Smith, three supervisors in the
Los Angeles office were summoned to Washington for
a meeting with top bureau officials to discuss the
developing situation regarding Smith and Leung.
-----The details of
what was discussed in the meeting, how matters were
left when it concluded, and what happened next are
unclear.
-----Sheila Horan, who
attended the meeting and was then an official with
the FBI's national-security division, declined to
comment.
-----Early last year,
Mueller, who had come aboard as FBI director the
previous summer, removed Horan from her post; she
subsequently left the bureau in a disagreement over
the pace of certain China investigations, including
a matter that didn't involve Leung, according to a
federal law enforcement source.
-----Angered that more
had not been done in the investigation into the
activities of Leung, Mueller contacted the Justice
Department in early January 2002, said another
source close to the investigation. There, Assistant
U.S. Atty. Randy Bellows, who had been appointed a
special counsel, launched an internal inquiry and
recommended the appointment of an
inspector-in-charge. The inspector's 13-month
criminal investigation led to the charges against
Smith and Leung.
-----"Bob
[Mueller] was incensed and wanted to take
care of this [publicly] before it was
leaked to the Hill and it appeared he was trying to
cover it up," said one source close to the
investigation. "He wanted to act decisively and I
think he has accomplished that," said the source.
Now investigators "are trying to find all the
evidence to fit that theory."
-----Officials at the
FBI, including those at headquarters in Washington,
were aware of an especially close relationship
between once-prized spy Katrina Leung and her FBI
handler, and allowed at least one departure from
FBI policy designed to protect the integrity of the
bureau's counterespionage system.
-----A source close to
the investigation said officials were aware for
years that Agent James J. Smith would meet with
Leung to pay her in person, despite a policy that
normally requires the presence of two agents at
such meetings, in part to discourage theft
-----Top FBI brass
were willing to make the accommodation because
Leung, whose code name was Parlor Maid, was a
particularly valuable "asset" in the FBI's effort
to spy on the Chinese, said the source, a former
Justice Department official.
-----"She was hot," he
said, "a very integral part of the Chinese
program."
-----What officials
did not know at the time was that Smith and Leung
were involved in a long-term sexual relationship,
which federal prosecutors allege served as the
backdrop for Leung's secret copying of classified
documents and providing them to the Chinese
government.
-----The fact that
Smith had a close friendship with Leung was an open
secret in the FBI's Los Angeles field office she
attended his retirement party wielding a video
camera. But the disclosure that officials in the
FBI's Washington headquarters were also aware of
aspects of the relationship and appear to have
looked the other way may shed new light on the
"management lapses" that FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III has said allowed the scandal to
occur.
-----Recently, Mueller
dispatched a team of agents from the bureau's
inspections unit in an effort to get to the bottom
of the case that resulted in criminal charges being
filed against Leung and Smith earlier this month.
Some current agents already have been questioned,
and none has refused to be interviewed, sources
familiar with the investigation said.
-----The special
treatment given to the meetings between Smith and
Leung was one of several apparent opportunities to
recognize the potential security threat caused by
their relationship.
-----The investigation
into Leung and her relationship with Smith began in
2000 when "the China program went to hell," said
the former Justice Department official, who is
familiar with some aspects of the Parlor Maid case
as it developed in Washington and Los Angeles.
-----At the time,
officials were concerned that the Chinese had
discovered various electronic surveillance
operations by the United States, according to the
former Justice Department official.
-----As part of the
probe into what had gone wrong with the China
program, FBI supervisors in Los Angeles questioned
Smith about Leung. According to the source, Smith
said that Leung was trustworthy and that he was
confident she was not responsible for any security
breaches. The meeting, which occurred shortly
before Smith retired from the FBI in November 2000,
was not confrontational because Smith was not
suspected of any wrongdoing, the source said.
-----"J.J. was a very
trusted guy," the source added. "Knowing what we
suspect about him now I think even if he knew she
was a double agent, he thought he was smart enough
to manage that."
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April
20, 2003 /
FBI Protecting Its Own Katrina Spy Case
Storyline
Other than disputing one claim by Leung's
attorneys, agency declines to respond.
Attorneys for an alleged Chinese double agent
released a statement accusing the FBI of engaging
in a cover-up that focuses on the foreign-born
woman while minimizing the misdeeds of its own
agents.
-----Katrina M. Leung,
a Chinese American businesswoman from San Marino,
and former FBI counterintelligence agent James
Smith were arrested earlier this month. Leung has
been accused of taking classified documents and
passing them to the Chinese, and Smith has been
accused of gross negligence for giving Leung access
to the documents.
-----Matthew
McLaughlin, a Los Angeles FBI spokesman, declined
to comment on the document but did dispute a
passage in the statement that said Leung's home was
searched multiple times, but Smith's Westlake home
was not.
-----"We did search
his house after we arrested him," McLaughlin
said.
-----The
seven-paragraph statement by "family and friends"
of Leung, 49, portrays her as a patriot who made
numerous trips to China at the request of the FBI,
only to be used as a scapegoat by an agency that
was "embarrassed" after discovering that Smith, 59,
and another former agent, William Cleveland Jr.,
were having affairs with Leung.
-----"The FBI is doing
what they have done in other cases of FBI
bungling," the statement says. "They blame the
non-agent and the foreign born, especially the
Asian, especially the woman."
-----Thom Mrozek, a
spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los
Angeles, said he would not respond to statements or
allegations made by Leung, her lawyers or her
supporters outside of court.
-----"She will be
given an opportunity to defend herself in court,"
Mrozek said.
-----Justice
Department sources said that an investigation of
Smith has been underway for almost three years,
since before his retirement from the FBI's
counterintelligence squad in Los Angeles in
November of 2000.
///
April 16, 2003
Magistrate
Denies Bail for Suspect in Spy Case
Katrina Leung, accused of being a Chinese double
agent, is called a flight risk.
----- Calling her a
flight risk and potential threat to national
security, a federal magistrate denied bail Tuesday
to Katrina Leung, a longtime FBI informer accused
of working as a Chinese double agent.
-----U.S. Magistrate
Victor Kenton ordered the wealthy San Marino
businesswoman jailed at the federal Metropolitan
Detention Center pending her trial on a charge of
illegally obtaining classified documents from her
FBI handler, with whom she carried on a 20-year
sexual relationship.
-----The agent, James
J. Smith, now retired, was charged with gross
negligence in the handling of national security
documents and freed on $250,000 bond following his
arrest April 9 along with Leung.
-----During a
four-hour hearing before Kenton on Tuesday, Leung's
lawyers argued that she was more deserving of bail
than Smith.
-----At one point,
defense attorney Janet Levine wondered aloud
whether prosecutors were motivated by prejudice in
seeking detention for Leung, a naturalized U.S.
citizen who was born in China.
-----Assistant U.S.
Atty. Rebecca Lonergan denounced the suggestion as
outrageous and untrue. Lonergan contended that if
allowed to go free on bond, Leung might flee to
China, where she has friends in high places and
which does not have an extradition treaty with the
United States.
-----Although Leung,
49, and her family had offered to post as much as
$2 million in property to secure her freedom,
Lonergan argued that the defendant had possibly
millions of dollars stashed away in hidden foreign
bank accounts, money she could use if she chose to
flee.
-----The prosecutor
described Leung's foreign assets as "enormous and
complex," and charged that the suspect had
concealed her overseas earnings in her annual U.S.
tax returns.
-----Lonergan also
asserted that while working as a paid informant,
Leung made about 15 overseas trips between 1989 and
2002 without telling her FBI handler.
-----And just last
month, the prosecutor said, Leung was offered a
five-year visa to China during a meeting with the
deputy chief of mission at the Chinese Embassy in
Washington.
-----But defense
attorney Levine and co-counsel John Vandevelde
accused the government of distorting the facts
about Leung's conduct.
-----Levine said that
Leung has had opportunities to flee since December,
when FBI agents searched her home and interviewed
her at length over seven days.
-----During her
interrogation, Vandevelde said, Leung cooperated
with the FBI, volunteering information and
documents, despite the fact that she had been
presented with a search warrant that said she was
suspected of committing an act of espionage
carrying a possible death sentence. The actual
charge against her carries a maximum 10-year prison
term.
-----Vandevelde also
said that Leung gave advance notice to FBI
investigators about her meeting with the Chinese
diplomat in Washington last month and reported
afterward on what transpired.
-----"Ms. Leung was
exceedingly candid and forthcoming with the FBI,"
said Vandevelde. "In contrast, agent Smith withheld
information when he was questioned in this
investigation."
-----The defense
lawyers suggested that Leung be placed on home
detention with electronic monitoring of her
movements. Leung's husband, brother and sister
attended the hearing and indicated they were
willing to post assets for her bail.
-----In deciding
against releasing her, Kenton cited an FBI
statement that the agency has been forced to review
a number of national security cases to determine
whether they were compromised by unauthorized
information that Leung might have passed to
China.
-----"The court cannot
conclude that the defendant does not pose a danger
to national security," he said.
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April 15, 2003
Katrina Blames
the FBI For Her Spy Activities and the arrest of
her FBI boyfriend. They paid her $1.7
million.
- Her defense attorneys say the alleged
Chinese double agent was exploited by the
bureau.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Attorneys for
longtime FBI informant and alleged Chinese
double agent Katrina Leung asserted Monday that
she consistently took her orders from bureau
agents, one of whom is facing federal charges of
allowing her access to government
secrets.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----But an FBI
agent alleged in an affidavit unsealed Monday
that Leung's spying for China has called into
question two decades of U.S. counterintelligence
investigations that relied on her
information.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Characterized
by some media as a modern Mata Hari, the
49-year-old Los Angeles businesswoman faces
charges that she illegally obtained secret
documents for China.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Her lawyers
described her as a woman exploited by her FBI
handlers, including former Los Angeles Agent
James J. Smith, who is charged with gross
negligence in allowing her access to classified
material. "The FBI controlled everything" Leung
did since she became an informant more than 20
years ago, her defense attorneys John D.
Vandevelde and Janet I. Levine said in court
papers.was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----But on the eve
of today's bail hearing for Leung, federal
authorities alleged that she "deceived the FBI
about her relationship with [Chinese]
intelligence services for
years."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----In an
affidavit, FBI counterintelligence Agent Randall
Thomas alleged that Leung's statements to bureau
agents during a lengthy investigation proved to
be "false and/or not
credible."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----The affidavit
suggests FBI officials got very worried because
the bureau over the years had "acted on her
information and used it in the conduct of
various foreign counterintelligence
investigations, including detecting efforts by
the [Chinese government] to
clandestinely obtain technologies that have
military applications."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----As a result,
Thomas said, "The FBI must now reassess all of
its actions and intelligence analyses based on
her reporting. A central goal of this
reassessment will be to determine which foreign
counterintelligence investigations have been
thwarted or compromised by her communication of
information to her [Chinese] handlers,
as well as by disinformation she may have
provided her FBI handlers."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Thomas said
Leung admitted receiving $100,000 from the
Chinese government, saying it had given her the
money because President Yang Shangkun "liked
her."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Among the
items found in a search of Leung's San Marino
home was a document on Chinese fugitives that
was classified secret, two directories of FBI
personnel in the United States and overseas, and
a document relating to a significant espionage
investigation.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----In arguing
against bail for Leung, the U.S. attorney's
office argued that Leung's release could pose a
danger to the United States and that she might
flee to China, which has no extradition treaty
with the U.S.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----In support of
their motion that Leung be held without bail,
government attorneys included an excerpt of a
cryptic conversation Leung had with FBI Agent
Peter Duerst last Dec. 18 during the
investigation of her
actions.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----"You know,"
Leung said, "I think the perfect way to end all
this, if I just ... disappear, not disappear, oh
well, wouldn't that be nice. I mean, if I don't
exist, if I do not exist anymore? Would it
help?"
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Duerst
responded, "Uh, I don't know how we can do that
[laughs]."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Court papers
filed late Monday by the government also
detailed Leung's alleged connections to top
Chinese officials. During the 20 years she was
an informant, Leung told the FBI that she had
more than 2,100 contacts with various Chinese
officials and had the personal telephone number
of a high-ranking Chinese official in her
phonebook, said federal prosecutors Rebecca S.
Lonergan and John B. Owens.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Though
acknowledging that she told the FBI about many
of her trips to China, the government attorneys
said records show that Leung -- dubbed "Parlor
Maid" by her FBI handlers -- took about 15
unreported international trips between 1989 and
2002.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----And although
virtually all of Leung's immediate family is
believed to live in the United States,
immigration records show that she has relatives
in Hong Kong and Australia.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Authorities
said Leung and her husband have "immediate
access" to $872,000 through several checking and
other accounts.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Records,
including those seized from Leung's San Marino
home last December, suggest that the couple
controlled 16 foreign bank accounts in Hong Kong
and China over the past 20 years, said
government lawyers. Some accounts had balances
as high as $171,300 within the past two years,
prosecutors said.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Authorities
had acknowledged that Leung, who was considered
a prized informant for the United States, was
paid about $1.7 million by the FBI over the past
20 years. But Leung's attorneys said she should
be released on $250,000 bail -- the same amount
that Smith was released on last week.
Defense lawyers Vandevelde and Levine said Leung
is not a flight risk and is willing to be
monitored with a global positioning device and
remain in Los Angeles. She surrendered her
passport last December after being interviewed
by FBI agents, her lawyers
said.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Government
suggestions that Leung, a naturalized citizen,
would try to flee to China because she was born
there are baseless, her attorneys
said.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----"The
government's allegations here are such that Ms.
Leung would face death or imprisonment if she
fled to China," the attorneys wrote in their
bail motion. Moreover, they emphasized that
Leung "has lived her entire adult life here" and
has strong ties to the United States, including
her husband, son and other family members, as
well as property worth about $2
million.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Vandevelde and
Levine argued that "Leung should be treated no
worse than Smith."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Leung's
lawyers provided a glimpse of what is likely to
be a multi-pronged defense: Leung is a loyal
U.S. citizen who was used by the FBI as a
"double agent," putting her in great danger; she
generated valuable assistance to the U.S.
government and she gave information to the
Chinese government as part of her attempt on
behalf of the FBI to persuade the Chinese
Ministry of State Security that she had access
to key information.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----"The FBI fed
information to her and encouraged her to give it
to the [People's Republic of China] in
order to obtain the trust of the PRC and obtain
information in return.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----"Leung had no
independent access to any government secrets or
documents," the defense brief said. "She was not
an FBI agent; she did not work in any secret or
top-secret facilities. Rather, according to
[an affidavit submitted by an FBI agent last
week], the only secret items she could
access were those provided to her or made
available to her by her handler, Special Agent
Smith."
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----The brief also
states that Leung "consistently obtained
reliable, valuable information from the PRC,
resulting in repeated commendations to Special
Agent Smith," a reference to awards that the
former agent received because of information he
obtained from Leung.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----The Justice
Department said last week that Leung had affairs
with two FBI agents, Smith and an unnamed agent.
Numerous sources have identified that person as
retired San Francisco Agent William Cleveland
Jr., who last week resigned from Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory.
was the cause for his "stealing" the
secret U.S. documents.
-----Defense
lawyers said that although Smith and Cleveland
had known since 1991 that Leung had a
relationship with China's Ministry of State
Security, they continued to exploit her
knowledge and contacts.
///
April 2003
Ex-FBI Agent
Is Arrested in China Espionage Case
Officials say Katrina Leung,
49,
was the cause for his "stealing" the secret
U.S. documents.
-----It was reported
in April 2003 -- by Federal authorities Wednesday
arrested a former senior FBI counterintelligence
agent in Los Angeles and a prominent local Chinese
American businesswoman and charged that his
negligence and her work as a double agent
compromised secret U.S. documents.
-----Authorities
alleged that Katrina Leung, 49, carried on romances
for almost two decades with former FBI Agent James
J. Smith, 59, and another unidentified FBI
counterintelligence supervisor in San Francisco,
using her access to Smith to obtain secrets for
China. At the same time, as a federal informant,
she collected $1.7 million from the U.S.
government, federal officials said.
-----According to an
FBI affidavit, Smith, who was Leung's case officer,
knew as long ago as 1991 that she "was providing
classified information" to Chinese intelligence
agencies, but continued to allow her to have access
to classified documents.
-----"It is a sad day
for the FBI," FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said
Wednesday. "James Smith was once a special agent,
sworn to uphold the rule of law and the high
ethical standards of the FBI. According to today's
charges, former Agent Smith not only betrayed the
trust the FBI placed in him, he betrayed the
American people he was sworn to protect."
-----Smith was charged
with gross negligence in allowing Leung access to
classified material. U.S. Magistrate Victor Kenton
set bail at $250,000.
-----Leung was charged
with illegally obtaining secret documents to the
advantage of a foreign power. She was also accused
of tax violations, including failure to report her
income from the FBI. She was held pending a hearing
next week.
-----Attorneys for
both defendants denied the accusations. Convictions
could result in federal prison terms of up to 10
years.
-----Smith's attorney,
Brian Sun, described his client as "a loyal,
patriotic and dedicated former agent" who is "very
disappointed that the government has chosen to
bring this case against him."
-----Leung's lawyers,
Janet I. Levine and John D. Vandevelde, released a
statement calling her a patriotic American who is
innocent.
-----"For over 20
years she has worked at the direction and behest of
the FBI. She repeatedly endangered herself in order
to make significant contributions to the security
and well-being of the United States and her fellow
citizens. We believe that when the full story is
known, Ms. Leung will be cleared of all wrongdoing
and the extent of her heroic contributions to this
country will be revealed," they said.
-----Like the 1990 Los
Angeles case of Richard W. Miller, the first FBI
agent ever charged with espionage, Wednesday's
charges rocked the bureau and its third-largest
division.
-----"This is as
shocking as if someone you know had been shot and
killed," said one FBI agent.
-----A former agent, a
colleague of Smith's who had known him for three
decades, said the arrest stunned agents. "He was
well respected in the office," said the former
agent.
-----"He got numerous
citations and commendations" and several times
traveled to Washington to receive commendations at
FBI headquarters, the former agent said. "He had
access to the highest intelligence information that
went right to the White House."
Sense of
Betrayal
-----That
level of trust fueled the resentment Smith's former
colleagues expressed Wednesday. "Betrayal is the
word," said an FBI official in Los Angeles. "It
embarrasses everyone because it makes us look so
bad."
-----In the
affidavits, FBI Agent Randall Thomas outlined in
great detail an investigation that began 13 months
ago and was monitored at the highest levels of the
Justice Department. The investigation included
covert physical searches; interception of
telephone, fax, and e-mail communications; and
extensive surveillance of locations that included a
hotel room where the two met.
-----Smith was
assigned for 22 of his 30 years with the FBI to a
Foreign Counterintelligence squad in Los Angeles
that focused on China. He served intermittently as
supervisor of the squad.
-----Last April,
Thomas said, Smith was the subject of an extensive
FBI surveillance authorized by the top-secret
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in
Washington, D.C.
-----Last month,
Thomas said, he received a report from another FBI
counterintelligence agent in Los Angeles that
Smith, on at least one occasion in 1999, checked
out a top-secret document from the bureau's vault
in Los Angeles and did not return it until a day or
two later.
-----"No other FBI
personnel ever retained top-secret documents
overnight that they had checked out," Thomas
wrote.
-----In a search of
Leung's San Marino home, agents recovered a 1997
FBI memorandum on Chinese fugitives that was
classified secret, as well as two directories of
FBI personnel and a telephone list related to an
FBI investigation with the code name "Royal
Tourist."
-----That case, Thomas
said, involved an espionage investigation into a
former TRW employee who pleaded guilty in 1997 to
passing secret information to China.
-----During an
interview with agents, Thomas said, Leung said that
while Smith would allow her to review classified
documents, he never allowed her to keep them. She
said she would "surreptitiously" copy documents
taken from Smith. Leung told investigators that
Smith "would leave his briefcase open, and that the
file-folder pockets in the briefcase often
contained documents with the text facing out."
-----"Leung said this
enabled her to see documents that she wanted and
that she would remove them and copy them without
Smith's knowledge when he left his briefcase
unattended," according to the affidavit.
-----Secret Search of
Luggage
-----Smith continued
to provide information about the FBI to Leung after
he retired in November 2000, according to court
documents.
-----Last November,
FBI agents staged a secret, court-authorized search
of Leung's luggage at LAX before her departure to
China.
-----In the luggage,
Thomas said, there was a fax from Smith to Leung
and six photographs of a meeting of the Society of
Former Special Agents of the FBI.
-----When Leung
returned to the United States, another search found
that the photographs of FBI agents were no longer
with her.
-----As the charges
were being announced Wednesday, the FBI's Mueller
gave a closed-door briefing on the case to
lawmakers on Capitol Hill. He also announced that
internal audits were underway to examine the FBI's
China counterintelligence program as well as the
bureau's procedures for safeguarding classified
information.
-----The chairman of
the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), said
the case was "of serious concern."
-----"The director
[Mueller] has advised us of the corrective
steps he has taken within the Bureau as a result of
this matter," Goss said in a statement. "We are
satisfied that he has taken the right steps thus
far."
-----Authorities also
said that an investigation was continuing, refusing
to rule out additional charges.
-----News of Smith's
arrest shocked the quiet Westlake Village
neighborhood where he, his wife and son have lived
for many years.
-----"That blows me
away," neighbor Pat Lopez said. "I can't
imagine."
-----The Smiths were
regarded as pillars of their Westlake Village
community, fixtures at the annual Fourth of July
barbecue block party.
-----"They are just
the nicest people. I find it really hard to
believe. They must have something wrong," said Lisa
Otis-Kisor, a neighbor and homemaker. "This is a
'Leave it to Beaver' neighborhood. They were like
the Cleavers."
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April 12, 2003 CALIFORNIA
Nuclear Lab
Official Quits in Katrina FBI Spy Probe
Disclosure of affair with alleged Chinese double
agent Katrina
leads the former FBI supervisor, William Cleveland,
to resign from his post at Lawrence Livermore.
-----The onetime head
of the FBI's Chinese counterintelligence unit in
San Francisco has resigned a sensitive post at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after
authorities said he acknowledged a longtime affair
with an alleged Chinese double agent.
-----The resignation
of ex-FBI supervisor William Cleveland Jr. came one
day after federal agents in Los Angeles arrested a
retired colleague, James J. Smith, and
businesswoman Katrina Leung in an espionage-related
case Wednesday.
-----While Cleveland
has not been charged with any wrongdoing, court
documents and interviews assert that the former FBI
agent, like Smith, carried on a romance with Leung
that spanned years. During that time, Cleveland has
acknowledged to FBI investigators, he had
suspicions that Leung, a prized FBI informant, was
passing classified information to China's
intelligence service.
-----Cleveland raised
his concerns with Smith, who he knew had recruited
Leung, but took no other action, according to court
documents. And both he and Smith continued their
romantic involvement with Leung, who FBI
investigators allege not only passed on information
to China but was found with classified FBI
documents at her home in San Marino.
-----Those documents
included a secret memorandum about Chinese
fugitives, a telephone list of the FBI's National
Security Division squad in Los Angeles and a
directory of the FBI's legal attaches overseas.
-----Smith, free on
$250,000 bail, has not commented about the case.
Cleveland did not return phone calls or e-mails
seeking comment Friday.
-----Leung, who has
been jailed at the federal Metropolitan Detention
Center in Los Angeles since her arrest, attended a
brief court session Friday in which U.S. Magistrate
Victor Kenton discussed procedural matters with
prosecutors and defense lawyers in preparation for
the defendant's bail hearing Tuesday.
-----Afterward,
defense lawyer Janet I. Levine told reporters that
Leung had been "abused" and "manipulated" by the
FBI, not the opposite, as claimed by federal
prosecutors.
-----"When the facts
are revealed, we are confident that Ms. Leung will
be shown to be a patriot of this country who did
what she was told to do, and she will be
exonerated," Levine said.
-----Levine said the
government's complaint distorts Leung's role as an
FBI asset. Referring to Leung's FBI handlers, the
defense lawyer said that her client "was used by
them to do what they wanted done.... She did what
they wanted her to do." Levine declined to be more
specific.
-----Throughout the
FBI, details of the investigation remained closely
held, with even veteran agents voicing surprise at
the secrecy of the inquiry. One indication of the
case's sensitivity was the fact that agents
recruited for the investigation were given
polygraph tests before, during and after their work
on the case.
-----At Lawrence
Livermore, spokeswoman Susan Houghton said, "It's
very important to reiterate that the FBI has not
provided us with any information that would make us
think that lab security in any way has been
compromised. That's why we're really treating this
as a personnel matter."
-----The case is a
further embarrassment for the University of
California, which manages Livermore and its sister
nuclear weapons facility, Los Alamos, on a
long-standing contract for the Energy
Department.
-----business
practices at the labs have come under intense
federal scrutiny. The Energy Department has said it
will decide by April 30 whether to break the
contract.
-----On Friday, UC
spokesman Michael Reese said the university, in
conjunction with lab officials, had acted as
quickly as it could to limit possible damage.
-----"As soon as we
heard about it, his personal and computer access to
the lab was immediately suspended and we requested
that the [Energy Department] revoke his
security clearance," Reese said. "What we've also
undertaken, here and at the lab, is a thorough
review of his work, to make sure there have been no
compromises of security."
-----In Cleveland's
Monterey neighborhood of single-family homes,
residents expressed shock. Cleveland and his wife,
a schoolteacher, were described as extremely
friendly. "We exchanged cookies at Christmas," said
one neighbor. "They're run-of-the-mill people, just
like we are."
Just as with
Smith's arrest on charges
of gross negligence in handling U.S.
secrets, former colleagues of Cleveland said Friday
that they were stunned by disclosures that he was
romantically involved with an informant now charged
with illegally obtaining classified documents for
China.
-----"Bill was
probably as well respected an agent and supervisor
as I worked with in San Francisco," said retired
FBI Agent Rick Smith, who served as supervisor of
the office's Soviet counterintelligence squad. "He
had the utmost respect from field agents as well as
the hierarchy ... excellent knowledge of the work
and was just a good man."
-----While Cleveland's
relationship with Leung showed "poor judgment,"
Rick Smith said, "I don't think there is anything
he has done that is related to espionage. And from
what I understand, he has not -- and never has been
-- the focus of the investigation."
-----That statement
was echoed by San Francisco FBI Agent LaRae K. Quy.
"I do not have any information that he is going to
be indicted or anything like that," said Quy, a
veteran counterintelligence agent who now serves as
the office's spokeswoman.
-----In court papers,
the FBI has said that Cleveland is cooperating with
investigators.
-----"I found him to
be one of the more competent agents I have ever
dealt with in the FBI," said another retired FBI
official. "The only reason he did not advance
further is that he did not want to leave San
Francisco."
-----The retired
official recalled that Cleveland attended the
Army's language school in Monterey.
-----Among Chinese
intelligence agents, the official said, "he was one
of the old hands in the FBI....
-----"I had always
known Bill to be very straightforward, very
competent," the retired official said.
-----Cleveland, who
left the FBI in 1993, started at the Livermore lab
that same year and headed its counterintelligence
program, responsible for identifying potential
foreign intelligence threats to the lab and doing
security briefings for employees, including those
traveling overseas. In that $157,940-a-year post,
Cleveland directed a staff of about 10 employees
and had a "Q" clearance -- the highest security
clearance at the sprawling facility in the
Livermore Valley in the East Bay.
-----FBI affidavits
stated that Cleveland's affair with Leung stopped
when the agent retired, but resumed in 1997 and
1999 -- a period when Cleveland was employed at the
lab.
-----Two years ago,
Cleveland went part-time and worked on special
counterintelligence projects for the lab. His hours
and salary were reduced by 40%.
-----Lawrence
Livermore has a nuclear weapons and
nonproliferation mission. Since the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001, it has taken on new
responsibilities in the war on terrorism and has
been developing devices to detect and combat
biological and chemical weapons.
-----Cleveland has
been teaching two courses at San Jose State
University's Administration of Justice department.
One of them focuses on intelligence and
counterintelligence. The syllabus shows that the
lectures cover some of the most notorious spy cases
in recent years -- "The John Walker Spy Ring," "The
Aldrich Ames case," and former FBI Agent Robert
Hanssen's case as well as "China's intelligence
services and methodologies" and nuclear espionage
from the 1970s to present.
-----Inger
Sagatun-Edwards, the department chairwoman, said
that she hired Cleveland to teach the spring
semester after he was recommended by another former
FBI agent. He did so well that she asked him to
take on a second course in management of law
enforcement agencies when another instructor had to
drop it midway through the semester.
-----"He received a
very positive peer evaluation," said the
chairwoman. "We don't have student evaluations
until the end of the semester, but it appears he
was very popular. He is very engaging and very
reliable." Sagatun-Edwards said she had no inkling
of Cleveland's involvement in the Leung case until
one of the faculty members told her about news
reports.
-----Records show that
Cleveland and his wife purchased a home in Monterey
for just over $1 million two years ago. They sold a
previous home in Pacific Grove for about
$500,000.
-----Lynn Posey, their
neighbor in Pacific Grove, said Friday that the
Clevelands "were very close. They were always
together."
-----The couple, she
said, would "ask about my kids; we exchanged
flowers and baked goods -- normal, small-town
neighbor stuff. If someone was sick or going to be
out of town, we'd tell each other.
-----"They were very
warm and very friendly and very tight."
-----It appears that
the Clevelands moved from Dublin, which is not far
from the Livermore laboratory, where they sold
their home for $335,000 in 1999.
-----This article was
reported by Times staff writers Greg Krikorian, Tim
Reiterman, Lee Romney, David Rosenzweig, Rick
Schmitt, Rebecca Trounson and Henry Weinstein.
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Katrina
Relished Her Local, Chinese
Ties
In her spacious San Marino home,
decorated with Chinese paintings
and art objects, Katrina Leung held numerous
fund-raisers for
politicians, including former Mayor Richard
Riordan
and Councilman John Ferraro.
-----Her house, with
two stone lions in front and a pool and guest house
in the back, has been the setting for entertaining
important guests from China on their visits to Los
Angeles.
-----Leung, who is
better known in the Chinese immigrant community by
her Chinese name, Chan Man Yin, speaks fluent
English, Mandarin and Cantonese. She has relished
talking about being well-connected with important
people in America and China.
-----When Deng
Xiao-ping was China's "paramount leader," Leung
told a reporter with pride that his daughter had
been her house guest.
-----She is a woman
who seemed to live dangerously, said a prominent
Asian American community leader who has known her
for many years. Like others, he spoke only on
condition that his name not be used.
-----"She made it
known that she had a special relationship with
China, a special relationship with American
politicians and a special relationship with the
FBI," he said.
-----Whenever she
organized community functions, she included FBI
officials, he said, and introduced them.
-----"There would be
an FBI table, and I'd wonder, what are these FBI
officials doing at a Chinese community event?" the
community leader said.
-----Another prominent
Chinese American businessman who asked not to be
identified said Wednesday that he remembers Leung,
at several community functions, introducing James
Smith, the FBI agent who is now accused of having
allowed her access to secret documents, as "my good
friend from the FBI."
-----As president of
the Los Angeles-Guangzhou Sister City Committee,
Leung had ample chance to make connections with
local leaders and China.
-----In 1998, Leung
accompanied Riordan on a trip to China. "She seemed
to know all the high-level officials," said Peter
Woo, who went on the trip. Woo, president of Mega
Toys, was president of the Chinese Chamber of
Commerce in Los Angeles at the time.
-----"Katrina acted as
if she were an unofficial ambassador," said another
Asian American, who also went on the trip.where
delegation was staying, although she was not part
of the group, according to one delegation
member.
-----"She made it
known that, when you needed to do business with
China, you had to go through her," said a prominent
local Chinese American business leader, who
frequently travels to China.
-----Leung, who came
to the United States in 1963 as a high school
student, said her grandfather came to Los Angeles
at the turn of the 20th century, but that the
family later returned to China.
-----She is a
self-described venture capitalist, with a degree in
architectural design from Cornell and an MBA from
the University of Chicago. She is married to Kam
Leung, a biochemist with a PhD, and they have a
son.
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Stories -
012005-01
010105-01
NEWS
CONVERGENCE
January
10, 2005 / The Talent Manager Grey Named Paramount
Chief
-----Viacom
Inc.'s co-president, Tom Freston, named talent
manager and producer Brad Grey as Paramount
Pictures' chairman and chief
executive.
-----Grey, 47, is set to
take over by March 1 for industry veteran Sherry
Lansing, who retires after 12 years as chief of the
studio.
Grey is being given
broad responsibilities over creative and business
issues. He will be charged with restoring
Paramount's luster, tarnished by a box-office slump
and management upheaval
----Paramount
also has been reluctant to gamble on expensive film
franchises such as "Harry Potter" that can
potentially generate huge profit.
Grey will report directly to
Freston.
///
Center
Page /
NEWS
CONVERGENCE
TIMELINE: Top Stories To
Start The Week With: 032005-03
IBM
to Free 500
Patents
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Yes90/ Reuters January 12,
2005-U.S.
patent leader IBM Corp. plans to donate 500 patents
for free use by software developers, marking a
shift in intellectual property strategy for the
world's top computer maker and a challenge to the
high-tech industry.
-----Jim
Stallings, IBM's vice president in charge of
intellectual property, said Tuesday that the move
was meant to encourage other companies to unlock
patent portfolios to spur technological
innovation.
-----As
the leading provider of computer services, IBM also
stands to benefit from helping other companies make
use of new technology developed under the open
licensing program.
-----The
500 patents cover areas such as storage management,
simultaneous multiprocessing, image processing,
database management and e-commerce.
-----IBM,
which over the last decade has stood out as a
leader among companies seeking to reap greater
profit from its patent portfolio, will continue to
receive royalties from thousands of patents it
holds on chips, supercomputers and other
products.
-----The
donation coincides with an announcement by the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office that IBM topped the
list of annual patent recipients for the 12th
straight year in 2004, with 3,248 patents -- 1,314
more than No. 2-ranked Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co. of Japan.
-----IBM's
policy change puts it at the vanguard of a movement
to redefine patent laws in less restrictive
ways.
-----But
Florian Mueller, campaign manager of a group
lobbying to prevent software patents from becoming
legal in the European Union, dismissed IBM's move
as insubstantial.
-----
"In Europe, IBM is a driving
force behind the extension of the scope of
patentability with respect to software," Mueller
wrote on NoSoftwarePatents.com's website.
-----
IBM was not available for
comment on Mueller's remarks.
-----Shares
of Armonk-N.Y.-based IBM fell 68 cents to $95 on
the New York Stock Exchange.
///
China's
Trade Surplus in '04 Hits 6-Year
High
-----
Yes90/AP January 12, 2005 -
Surging exports helped push China's trade surplus
to a six-year high of $32 billion in 2004, the
Chinese government reported Tuesday.
-----
December's trade surplus of
$11.1 billion, the eighth straight month of
surplus, was up 92.7% compared with the same month
in 2003, the Ministry of Commerce said.
-----
China's exports rose 35.4%
in 2004 from a year earlier to $593.4 billion,
while imports climbed 36% to $561.4 billion, the
ministry said, citing customs statistics.
-----
The $32-billion surplus was
up 25.6% from that recorded in 2003 and the largest
surplus since 1998, when the trade balance hit
$43.4 billion.
-----
The resurgence in China's
trade surplus may revive pressure on Beijing from
trading partners, especially the United States, to
relax controls on its currency, the yuan.
-----China's
exchange rate policies restrict the value of the
yuan to a narrow band around 8.28 yuan per $1.
Critics argue that the yuan is undervalued, making
China's exports cheaper overseas and giving its
manufacturers an unfair advantage.
-----Despite
the surge in December's trade surplus, growth in
both exports and imports slowed in December from
the previous month and from the same month in 2003,
the figures show.
-----Exports
grew 32.7% in December from the same month a year
earlier to $63.8 billion, outpacing a 24.6%
increase in imports to $52.7 billion.
////
ByLines:
Editors Note
Quincy
Jones
Bylines
TVI
Magazine ONLINE / IS YOUR INDUSTRY WEB SITE Ready
for the future?
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TVI
Magazine introduces here a new marketing forum for
the international television industry: a dynamic
online service on its YES90 and tvinews.net web
sites. TVI Magazine will now effectively serve the
new marketing needs of all entertainment companies
with a tool that offers almost instantaneous
promotion updates. Company promotional material
that appears on TVI Magazine's Web site can be
hyperlinked with the company's own URL. TVI
Magazine can also link the ads to a special Web
page for the advertiser and then link that page to
the advertiser's URL.
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To
ensure that visitors find their way to promotion
information and product updates, TVI Magazine is
listing TVI Magazine Online on more than 250 of the
world's most popular search engines and electronic
directories.
-----
Online
ad space can be purchased in monthly increments
(with a one-month minimum). At renewal time,
advertisers can change their ad and/or move it to
another space if one is available. The TVI Magazine
Web site will indicate the total number of hits on
the home page per month and per day, enabling
advertisers to monitor their reach and billings
regularly.
-----
TVI
Magazine has two key pages for ad placement: the
index page (home page) and the main page (main page
of articles). Less expensive ad space is available
on article pages. Advertisers can provide the
artwork and/or logo, either by submitting the file
electronically or via an existing graphic on the
Web that TVI Magazine's online team can
grab.
-----
Most
ads can be posted on the TVI Magazine site within a
few hours. However, in the event that any graphic
manipulation is required, one must allow more time
before the ad is posted, usually two to seven
business days for a static banner and up to 10
business days for an animated banner ad.
-----It
just goes to show you, says Troy about the TV and
Film industry -- "NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS
PERMANENT" . . . so follow the
money -
- and
take some advice from a dinner-time chat with
"Stonehead" --
Disappointments Are Great! Follow
the Money . . . the Internet and the Smart- Daaf
Boys.
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Josie
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Publisher/Editor
TVI Magazine
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Releases, They Said It Tracking Model, and
SmartSearch were used in compiling and ascertaining
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