Espionage

The indictment against Wen-Ho Lee alleges that he gave China highly sensitive information about the innermost secrets of U.S. nuclear weapons. The fact that seven computer tapes that were packed with information of our nuclear weapons made by Dr. Lee, creating an enormous breach in U.S. security. It was absolutely imperative to find the whereabouts of the seven missing tapes, and to determine whether they were in fact passed to a foreign power.
Most of Dr. Lee’s alleged crimes took place in 1993 or 1994. Also in 1997 another passing of sensitive information was, the complete source code for the current version of the Primary weapon design code. This tape is now missing. It is surprising to think that had the F.B.I. requested electronic surveillance against him earlier. The U.S. wouldn’t have had a great loss to...