Katrina Leung, James Smith Case, ret. FBI counterintelligence agent, specialized in Chinese intelligence, FBI's FCI China Squad, LAFO

Counterintelligence - Espionage - Spy Case

Name	LEUNG, Katrina aka Man Ying Chan, Wen Ying Chen, LUO Zhongshan	SMITH, James J. aka JJ
Employer	Asset of FBI	FBI
Dates of Employment	1982-2002	October 1970-retired in November 2000
Employee Type	Asset	Staff
Job Title/Duties	FBI asset recruited by Smith in 1982. As an asset, Leung's job was to collect counterintelligence information from the People's Republic of China (PRC) and provide it to the FBI. Paid $1.7M as asset for services and expenses.	Supervisory Special Agent Specialized in Chinese counterintelligence matters. Recruiter and Handler of Leung Supervisor of FBI's LA Field Office's FCI China squad Was involved in the investigation into whether China tried to funnel money into the 1996 US elections in a bid to gain influence
Military Rank		Vietnam veteran
Clearance Level		TS

Spying For	People's Republic of China (PRC) Allegedly covertly working for Chinese intelligence service MSS, alias "Luo"
Codename	Parlor Maid
Spying Dates
Co-conspirators	JJ Smith	Katrina Leung
Methodology	SMITH routinely debriefed Leung at her residence and on occasion took classified documents there and left them unattended. Leung surreptitiously photocopied some of them, and documents she obtained in this manner have been recovered from her residence. Investigation has revealed that from August 1983 until December 2002, SMITH and Leung had a sexual relationship. Investigation has also revealed that in 1991, SMITH learned Leung was providing classified information to PRC intelligence services without authorization by SMITH or the FBI, after which SMITH continued to allow Leung access to classified information.
Possible Motivations, Problems
Finances
Identified/ Investigation
Arrest Date/Location	Wednesday, April 9, 2003 in California
Charges	Charged with illegally obtaining secret documents to the advantage of a foreign power	Charged with gross negligence in allowing Leung access to classified material
Court	U.S. District Court in Los Angeles PROSECUTION: US Attorney Debra Yang
Lawyers	Attorneys for Katrina Leung: Janet I. Levine and John D. Vandevelde of Lightfoot, Vandevelde, Sadowsky, Medvene & Levine of Los Angeles	Attorneys for James Smith: Brian Sun of O'Neill, Lysaght and Sun, Santa Monica, CA Was also attorney for: -California businessman Johnny Chung, one of the key figures in the Democratic fund-raising controversy -Tsi Lai Temple (Gore Fundraiser) -Wen Ho Lee and Paul Murphy of O'Neill, Lysaght and Sun, Santa Monica, CA
Status	Case Dismissed for misconduct: Thursday, January 6, 2005 Pled guilty to making a false statement and filing a false tax return

Date/Place of Birth	1 May 1954, Canton, China
Citizenship	Permanent resident alien on 7 Aug 1972
Residences	San Marino, CA	Giuldhall Court, Westlake Village, CA
Education	1976: graduated from Cornell University and a few years later, received a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago
Family	Married, one son	Married, one son
Other Employment	1980: Upon arriving in Los Angeles, she became the general manager of an import-export company suspected of engaging in the illegal transfer of technology form the US to the PRC.
Additional Bio	Southern California Republican political activist One of the Directors of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council

Documents	FBI Press Release (9 April 2003) James J. Smith Affidavit (9 April 2003) Katrina Leung Affidavit (9 April 2003) UNITED STATES v. JAMES J. SMITH (May 12, 2004) The New Plea Agreement By A Former FBI Agent To Charges That He Lied By Making A False Statements To Federal Agents By Concealing His "Improper Intimate Relationship With An FBI Asset" Who He Was Charged With Handling
Quotes	"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."--FBI Director Robert Mueller "This is as shocking as if someone you know had been shot and killed."--an FBI agent at the Los Angeles field office "They are just the nicest people. I find it really hard to believe. They must have something wrong. This is a 'Leave it to Beaver' neighborhood. They were like the Cleavers."--Lisa Otis-Kisor, a Westlake Village, California neighbor of James Smith, his wife and son "It would be inappropriate for the FBI to suggest that they were not aware of the potential risks and problems of using Ms. Leung as an asset, particularly since 1991. For them to lay it at my client's doorstep and say he was the only one who knew she was a potential problem is flat-out wrong."--Smith's Attorney Brian Sun
Case Links	A Review of the FBI's Handling and Oversight of FBI Asset Katrina Leung, Special Report ...(USDOJ/IG, 24 May 06) FBI Responds to OIG Report on the Handling of Former Asset Leung (FBI Press Release, 24 May 06) FBI Headquarters FBI Los Angeles Field Office Understanding Chinese Intelligence: (op-eds by Dr. Paul Moore) "China's Subtle Spying" Sept 1999, New York Times "How China Plays the Ethnic Card" June 1999, Los Angeles Times "Spies of a Different Stripe" May 1999, New York Times "Is China Spooked?" August 2001, Washington Post
BOOKS/VIDEOS	Frontline: From China With Love

News:

China's spies 'very aggressive' threat to U.S.

…China's intelligence activities have been "very aggressive" at acquiring U.S. advanced technology, often before it is fully developed here. "The technology bleed to China, among others, is a very serious problem," he said, noting that the FBI is improving its efforts to identify and protect sensitive technology. Beijing also succeeded in penetrating, and thus frustrating, U.S. intelligence against China through Katrina Leung, a Los Angeles businesswoman who was a long-time FBI informant secretly loyal to Beijing…Currently, the NCIX is conducting a damage assessment of the Leung spy case, examining how Leung secretly spied for China by sexually entrapping two of the FBI's most senior counterspies, FBI agents James J. Smith and Bill Cleveland….(Washington Times, 6 Mar 07)

Failures of intelligence, the leaking of our secrets

ENEMIES: HOW AMERICA'S FOES STEAL OUR VITAL SECRETS -- AND HOW WE LET IT HAPPEN, by Bill Gertz

One of the more disgusting stories, among many, Mr. Gertz tells is the first full account of two agents in the FBI's San Francisco field office who had "illicit, long-term sexual affairs" with a Chinese Communist agent, Katrina Leung. Code-named "Parlor Maid," she also worked for the bureau as a supposed double agent. One of her "lovers" (in context, perhaps a bad choice of words) was William Cleveland, a supervisory agent who ran FBI counterintelligence on the West Coast. The pattern lasted for years: Mr. Cleveland would first debrief Parlor Maid, then take her to bed, at hotels here and there. And Mr. Cleveland suspected, accurately, that the agent directly controlling her, J. J. Smith, also enjoyed her sexual favors….(Washington Times, 12 Nov 06)

F.B.I. Missed Many 'Red Flags' on Key Informer, Review Finds

…The report urged broader changes at the F.B.I. in its handling of informants to prevent security breaches. As early as 1987, senior officials at the F.B.I. received word that Katrina Leung, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman in Los Angeles who was also a bureau informant, might have had unauthorized contacts with Chinese officials, according to the review, conducted by the Justice Department inspector general's office....(New York Times, 25 May 06)

FBI Handling of China Spy Case Criticized

Authorities missed many warnings over 20 years regarding the loyalty of an FBI informant suspected of being a Chinese spy and the agent who was her lover and handler….(LA Times, 25 May 06)

FBI Officials Are Faulted In Chinese Spying Case…....(Washington Post, 25 May 06)

Legal experts say prosecution bungled espionage case

It's a ploy familiar to anyone who's watched a Mafia movie. When prosecuting two defendants, offer the small fry a deal in exchange for testimony against the big fish. You pocket a partial win and improve the chances for a total victory. It should have worked that way in the case of accused double agent Katrina Leung, the San Marino society figure once accused of passing secrets to China. Instead, the plea agreement prosecutors struck with Leung's FBI handler and ex-lover, James J. Smith, ended up sinking the Leung prosecution…..(San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 22 Dec 05)

Judge OKs Plea Deal in Spy Case

Closing its books on a troubled spy case, the government on Friday allowed a former FBI operative who had been accused of being a Chinese double-agent to plead guilty to lying about a sexual affair and filing a false income tax return. Approving a plea bargain between prosecutors and defense lawyers, U.S. District Judge Florence Marie Cooper sentenced Katrina Leung to three years' probation and fined her $10,000 but spared her from serving any time in prison…..(LA Times, 17 Dec 05)

Ex-FBI Informant Takes Deal in Spy Case

The government ended its crippled spy case against a woman once accused of being a Chinese double agent, accepting her guilty pleas to lesser charges of making a false statement to the FBI and filing a false tax return….(AP, 17 Dec 05)

Ex-FBI Informant to Plead Guilty to Lying

A woman once accused of being a Chinese double agent while having a love affair with an FBI agent pleaded guilty Friday to making a false statement and filing a false tax return….(AP, 16 Dec 05)

Judge Urged to Reverse Decision Ending FBI Espionage Case

Stung by charges of professional misconduct, the U.S. attorney's office called on a federal judge Friday to rescind her order dismissing the criminal case against accused Chinese double-agent Katrina Leung….(LA Times, 5 Feb 05)

Federal Prosecutors Seek Reinstatement of Leung Spy Charges
Federal prosecutors have filed a motion asking a judge to reconsider her decision last month to dismiss espionage-related charges against former Los Angeles businesswoman and FBI informant Katrina Leung….(LA Business Journal, 4 Feb 05)

Spy Case Dismissed For Misconduct

A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against a California woman accused of spying for China, saying prosecutors illegally blocked the primary witness in her case -- a federal agent with whom she carried on a decades-long affair -- from talking with her attorneys….. (Washington Post, 7 Jan 05)

All Charges Are Dismissed in Spy Case Tied to F.B.I.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese-American woman accused of using a long-running sexual relationship with a senior F.B.I. agent here to obtain national security documents.

The woman, Katrina Leung, a wealthy socialite from San Marino, a suburb of Los Angeles, had faced five criminal counts of unauthorized possession and copying of classified materials. The prosecutors said she removed the files from the briefcase of James J. Smith, a senior F.B.I. agent with whom Ms. Leung had an affair for 20 years….(New York Times, 7 Jan 05)

Spying Case Tossed Out

Federal judge scolds prosecutors in her dismissal of criminal charges against a woman accused of working as a Chinese double agent….(Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan 05)

Judge rips officials in double agent case

A federal judge in California has blasted federal prosecutors for willful and deliberate misconduct in handling a counterespionage case. U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper leveled the charges against the U.S. attorney's office as she dismissed all criminal charges against Chinese-American businesswoman Katrina Leung, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday……. (UPI, 7 Jan 05)

Alleged Spy's Lawyers Ask Dismissal of Case

Defense lawyers asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss the government's case against accused Chinese double agent Kristina Leung, claiming the prosecution has improperly blocked their access to a key witness who can prove her innocence…………(Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec 04)

Charged Chinese double agent in spy case wants charges dropped

Attorneys for accused Chinese double agent Katrina Leung argued Thursday that the charges against her should be dropped, claiming that prosecutors' plea agreement with a retired FBI agent involved in the spy case prohibited him to be interviewed by the defense………..(AP, 9 Dec 04)

Lawyers for Alleged Spy Accuse Prosecution of Misconduct

Attorneys for accused Chinese double agent Katrina Leung have asked a federal judge to throw out the indictment against her on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct, it was disclosed Thursday………(Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov 04)

Katrina Leung Is Released on Bail, Vows Loyalty to the U.S.

In her first public remarks since being released on bail, accused double-agent Katrina Leung declared her loyalty to the United States Tuesday and vowed to fight to clear her name.....(Los Angeles Times, 9 July 03)

Spy case charges debated

A federal judge suggested Tuesday she will drop three of five charges against a woman accused of taking classified documents from an FBI agent who was her handler while she was allegedly working as a double agent for China.....(AP, 9 July 03)

Accused Chinese double agent freed on bail

Accused Chinese double agent Katrina Leung was released from federal detention Thursday after posting $2 million in bail.....(CNN, 4 July 03)

Alleged Spy Free After Posting Bail.....(AP, 4 July 03)

Millionaire 'Mata Hari' bailed for $3m

A millionaire socialite accused of using her sexual affairs with FBI counter-intelligence agents to spy on the United States for China was today granted bail of almost $3 million…..(AFP, 20 June 03)

'Double agent' freed on $2m bail

Katrina Leung, a US citizen accused of being a Chinese double agent, has had her bail set at $2m by a US federal court…..(BBC, 20 June 03)

Accused double agent Katrina Leung granted bail

A federal judge Thursday set bail at $2 million for suspected double agent Katrina Leung, a former FBI informant accused of passing to China classified U.S. documents obtained from an FBI handler who was also allegedly her lover…..(CNN, 20 June 03)

Ex-FBI Agent Faces Charges in Spy Case

A former FBI agent assigned to hunt Chinese spies carried on a lengthy affair with an alleged Chinese double agent and allowed her access to classified documents, federal prosecutors charged Wednesday. According to an FBI affidavit, the former agent, James J. Smith, 59, recruited Katrina Leung, a Republican political activist in California, in the early 1980s to become an FBI "asset" and became her "handler" seeking information about the People's Republic of China......(AP, 9 April 03)

Chinese-American Held for Spying in L.A.

A Chinese-American woman helping U.S. government agents as "an asset" on China allegedly stole classified documents from an FBI agent who was both her contact and her lover and sent them to China, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Katrina Leung, 49, was arrested along with her lover, retired FBI Agent James J. Smith, 59. She was charged with obtaining documents related to national defense for the advantage of a foreign nation.....(Reuters, 9 April 03)

Ex-FBI man, Chinese lover held in spy case

A retired FBI agent was arrested Wednesday on charges he repeatedly allowed his Chinese lover, who was allegedly also a double agent working for the Peoples Republic of China, to have access to sensitive documents in his briefcase......(UPI, 9 April 03)

Ex-FBI Agent Is Arrested in China Espionage Case

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.....(Los Angeles Times, 10 April 03)

Ex-FBI Agent, Longtime 'Asset' Arrested in Spy Case

A top FBI counterintelligence agent gave a suspected Chinese spy access to voluminous amounts of classified information during an alleged 20-year affair between the two, according to documents unsealed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles yesterday.....(Washington Post, 10 April 03)

Ex-F.B.I. Agent Is Accused of Passing Secrets to Lover

A Chinese-American woman in Southern California who worked as an informer for the F.B.I. took numerous top-secret documents from her bureau handler, who was also her longtime lover, and she passed secrets on to Chinese government......(New York Times, 10 April 03)

Ex-agent for FBI arrested in theft

Federal prosecutors have arrested a former FBI agent considered an expert in Chinese counterintelligence on charges of allowing unauthorized access to classified information to a woman now believed to be a Chinese agent.....(Washington Times, 10 April 03)

FBI Chief Decries Espionage Discovery

In what FBI Director Robert Mueller calls "a sad day" for the bureau, federal prosecutors said a former agent responsible for tracking down Chinese spies had an affair with an alleged Chinese double agent and allowed her access to classified documents......(AP, 10 April 03)

San Marino woman accused of spying on U.S. for China

A Republican fund-raiser active in Los Angeles politics was arrested Wednesday on spying charges, accused of being a double agent who stole national secrets, even smuggling documents into China during Mayor James Hahn's trade mission in November.......(Pasadena Star News, 10 April 03)

Woman accused of spying for China is prominent SoCal community leader

The woman authorities say used a decades-long affair with a retired FBI agent to spy for China is a high-profile Republican activist who mingles freely with corporate titans and prominent politicians.....(AP, 10 April 03)

Amorous 'Spy' & FBI Guy

- A Chinese-American "Mata Hari" was arrested yesterday along with her lover, a former FBI agent, and charged with possessing stolen documents she planned to send to China........(New York Post, 10 April 03)

Ex-FBI agent accused of sharing documents with spy.....(Miami Herald, 10 April 03)

Ex-FBI agent, Chinese GOP activist charged in case involving classified information.....(USA Today, 10 April 03)

FBI retiree, lover held in spy case.....(Knight Ridder News, 10 April 03)

Spy suspicions unexamined for years

Eight times during the two decades that Katrina Leung was paid about $1.7 million by the FBI to spy on the Chinese government, U.S. agents in California discussed the possibility that she might be a double agent for China. At least once, a report of the agents' suspicions reached FBI headquarters here.......(USA Today, 11 April 03)

FBI woman 'spied for China'

A Chinese-American woman who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been accused of spying for Beijing....(BBC, 11 April 03)

Ex-FBI Agent Resigns Post at Nuclear Weapons Lab

One of two retired FBI agents linked to an emerging Chinese spy scandal yesterday resigned his post as a senior counterintelligence official at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which stripped him of his security clearances and launched an investigation of his nine-year tenure.....(Washington Post, 11 April 03)

Spy scandal fallout in Livermore

A top security official at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory resigned Thursday after he was linked to an alleged Chinese spy scandal and love triangle involving a Los Angeles socialite and a retired FBI agent......(San Francisco Chronicle, 11 April 03)

Second ex-FBI agent resigns from lab

A second former FBI agent who acknowledged an affair with a suspected Chinese double agent has resigned his sensitive security post at a California nuclear weapons lab....(AP, 11 April 03)

F.B.I. Never Gave Agent in Spy Case a Polygraph

A former F.B.I. agent arrested on Wednesday in an espionage case had not been given a polygraph test in his nearly 30 years with the bureau, and lax oversight of his relationship with an informer now accused of being a Chinese double-agent appears to have violated numerous policies......(New York Times, 11 April 03)

Arrest May Lead to FBI Changes

As the FBI scrambled to assess the damage from its latest spying scandal, Justice Department officials said Thursday that the alleged betrayal by former Los Angeles counterintelligence agent James J. Smith will accelerate reforms in the bureau's recruitment and handling of informants.....(Los Angeles Times, 11 April 03)

Mueller orders probe of major FBI division

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has ordered an investigation to find out "what went wrong" inside the bureau's Chinese counterintelligence division that allowed a veteran Los Angeles agent to go undetected in his suspected delivery of classified information to a longtime lover, a Chinese double agent.....(Washington Times, 11 April 03)

Mueller: FBI spy hunter incident to be investigated

The case of a former FBI agent charged with allowing a female Chinese double agent access to government secrets was "an isolated event," but the Justice Department will investigate the matter, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate panel Thursday....(CNN, 11 April 03)

Spying Case Stuns Chinese American Leaders

Shock and apprehension. The two words best describe the Southern California Chinese American community's reaction Thursday to charges that a prominent Chinese American businesswoman was a double agent who obtained secret information for China from an FBI counterintelligence officer......(Los Angeles Times, 11 April 03)

Spy Suspect Led an Active, Prominent Life

From her stately home in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods around this city, Katrina Leung has long struck the pose of charming socialite and political player....(Washington Post, 11 April 03)

After Espionage Arrests, F.B.I. Looks Back and Wonders, 'How?'

With expensive jade jewelry, a big smile and an unshakable air of confidence, Katrina Leung always made an impression when she entered a room.....(New York Times, 11 April 03)

L.A. political player charged with spying

Katrina Leung accused of swapping sex for government secrets had the perfect resume: Republican Party member, philanthropic businesswoman, active in Chinese-American community, trusted player in Los Angeles politics....(Press-Telegram, California, 11 April 03)

Spy case arrest shocks GOP friends

Katrina Leung seemed just the sort of woman the California Republican Party wanted in its ranks......(Sacramento Bee, 11 April 03)

L.A. agog at arrest of socialite for aiding China

For years she was a society hostess, a prominent Chinese-American who hobnobbed with politicians, presidents and millionaires......(Reuters, 11 April 03)

Woman accused of being double agent known as Chinese-American activist

She allegedly lived a secret life as a double agent for the Chinese government, but the woman the FBI code-named "Parlor Maid" also lived a very public one in Republican and Chinese-American circles, friends and associates said Thursday......(AP, 11 April 03)

FBI Assesses Potential Spy Damage

Top FBI officials have told members of Congress that every Chinese counterintelligence case investigated by the FBI since at least 1991 may have been compromised by a suspected agent of the Chinese government arrested in Los Angeles this week......(Washington Post, 12 April 03)

F.B.I. Was Told Years Ago of Possible Double Agent

Senior F.B.I. officials were told in the early 1990's that a Los Angeles woman accused this week of being a double-agent appeared to be spying for the Chinese, but they continued using her as an informer nonetheless, current and former officials said......(New York Times, 12 April 03)

FBI Reviews Agent in Alleged Spy Affair

In 1991, two former FBI counterintelligence agents learned that the lover they shared might be a Chinese double agent. But government documents say they did little about it.....(AP, 12 April 03)

U.S. Alleges Spy Suspect Cheated IRS

Katrina M. Leung, the Chinese American civic leader accused of being a double agent for China who obtained classified documents through her romance with an FBI agent, also is suspected of having a long history as a tax cheat, court documents show.....(Washington Post, 12 April 03)

Spy case shakes up Nortel

Business leaders in the United States and Canada were scrambling yesterday to cope with news that a prominent Los Angeles businesswoman and former consultant for Nortel Networks Corp. is alleged to have been a spy for China....(Globe and Mail, 12 Apr 03)

Defense says alleged Chinese double agent is loyal U.S. citizen

A woman accused of being a Chinese double agent who slept with two FBI agents did nothing wrong and is a loyal U.S. citizen who followed FBI orders, her attorney said.....(AP, 12 April 03)

Scandal causes deja vu

The Katrina Leung spy scandal prompted a familiar sinking feeling among Asian Americans who have long been active on the political scene.....(Pasadena News, 12 April 03)

Spy scandal stuns Livermore lab

Former FBI agent William Cleveland was brought to Livermore's nuclear weapons lab a decade ago specifically to fix the institution's reputation for lax security.....(San Jose Mercury News, 12 April 03)

Sex affair ends FBI legend's career

Among spy hunters, Bill Cleveland is legendary. He was a Mandarin linguist in the 1960s when the FBI hardly could find agents to read Chinese. He's keenly intelligent and he knows the target, China's myriad intelligence agencies and security services, as well as anyone in the U.S. government.....(Oakland Tribune, 12 April 03)

Ex-FBI Agent in Spy Case Earned Praise

A former FBI counterintelligence agent accused of keeping quiet about a Chinese spy received praise in his post-bureau job: protecting some of the nation's most sensitive scientific secrets at a nuclear weapons lab....(AP, 12 April 03)

Lab espionage affair stuns Monterey neighbors

William Cleveland Jr., who resigned from his counterespionage post at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Thursday after acknowledging an affair with a suspected Chinese double agent, is a Monterey resident who has been praised as a respected security expert and teacher....(AP, 12 April 03)

Nuclear Lab Official Quits in Spy Probe

Disclosure of affair with alleged Chinese double agent leads the former FBI supervisor to resign from his post at Lawrence Livermore.....(Los Angeles Times, 12 April 03)

Lab official quits in affair's wake

A well-respected Lawrence Livermore Laboratory counterintelligence official has resigned after admitting a decadelong romance with a Southern California socialite accused of being a double agent for China....(Contra Costa Times, 12 April 03)

Chinese Mata Hari ensnares ex-FBI men

A second former FBI agent who worked in counterintelligence has admitted having an affair with a suspected Chinese double agent arrested earlier this week with another ex-FBI agent in the passing of classified information to the People's Republic of China.....(Washington Times, 12 April 03)

Livermore Lab security official leaves amid espionage probe

A security official for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has resigned after acknowledging an affair with a suspected Chinese double agent.....(East Bay Business Journal, 12 April 03)

Weapons Lab Official Quits in China Spy Scandal

A retired FBI intelligence expert linked to a spy scandal colored by sex and betrayal has resigned as the top security official at a nuclear research lab as authorities there review his work for possible security breaches.....(Reuters, 12 April 03)

L.A. spy case leads to resignation

An employee of one of the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories resigned Friday in connection with the arrest of a former FBI counterintelligence agent and his long-time girlfriend who allegedly was a Chinese double agent....(UPI, 12 April 03)

Arrest of Asian American activist may curtail political involvement

Seven weeks ago, Katrina Leung was greeting friends at the state Republican Convention in Sacramento, a dynamic party fund-raiser and enthusiastic leader in the growing effort to bring more Asian Americans into the GOP.....(San Francisco Chronicle, 12 April 03)

Undercover Work

A long-standing myth has it that FBI espionage work is much the way it's depicted in the movies. Lots of glamorous derring-do and such......(Washington Post, 14 April 03)

Espionage: Sex, Spies and the ‘Parlor Maid’

An accused Chinese double agent who was having long-term sexual affairs with two veteran FBI counterintelligence agents was a key source for a special Justice Department campaign-finance task force, NEWSWEEK has learned.......(Newsweek, 14 Apr 03)

Spy Suspect May Have Told Chinese of Bugs, U.S. Says

Counterintelligence officials fear that an F.B.I. informer in Los Angeles tipped off the Chinese government to a covert United States effort to plant listening devices aboard China's version of Air Force One, several government officials said.....( New York Times, 15 April 03)

Accused Spy Blames the FBI

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....(Los Angeles Times, 15 April 03)

Feds to argue no bail for alleged double agent Katrina Leung

Federal prosecutors say it would be a mistake to grant bail to alleged double agent Katrina Leung, saying she has millions of dollars in bank accounts worldwide and ties with top government officials in China, a country without an extradition policy with the United States........(AP, 15 April 03)

Prosecutors: Accused Spy Has Money, China Contacts

A woman charged with stealing classified documents from her FBI agent lover has access to large sums of money and top Chinese government officials, prosecutors said on Monday as they asked that she be denied bail to keep her from fleeing......(Reuters, 15 Apr 03)

No Bail Urged For FBI 'Spy'

Federal prosecutors yesterday urged a judge to refuse bail for an accused FBI double-agent because her wealth makes her a flight risk.....(New York Post, 15 April 03)

To China with Love

Katrina Leung was living the American Dream. An immigrant from China, she scored an Ivy League education, a luxurious home, her own business, even powerful political connections. And she also possessed some secrets......(Time magazine, 15 April 03)

Ex FBI agent linked to spy row keeps teaching job

A retired FBI agent linked to a spy scandal involving another agent and a woman with whom both had affairs, has kept his part-time job -- teaching about espionage at a local college, an official said......(Reuters, 15 Apr 03)

Prosecutors Say Spy Suspect Revealed Details of Inquiry

An F.B.I. informer in Los Angeles accused of being a Chinese double agent appears to have compromised a highly delicate nuclear espionage investigation by revealing to Beijing the identities of two F.B.I. agents working on the case.....(New York Times, 16 April 03)

Alleged Chinese Spy Is Denied Bail

A U.S. magistrate judge refused today to release alleged Chinese spy Katrina M. Leung on bail, saying he is not certain investigators had found all of the classified documents she may have procured during two decades of alleged spying.....(Washington Post, 16 April 03)

Magistrate Denies Bail for Suspect in Spy Case

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.....(Los Angeles Times, 16 April 03)

Judge denies bail in FBI-China case

Lawyers for Katrina Leung say passing along information was simply following FBI's strategy....(AP, 16 April 03)

Accused Chinese-American Spy Denied Bail in L.A......(Reuters, 15 April 03)

US court refuses China 'spy' bail.....(BBC, 16 April 03)

Chinese 'double-agent' denied bail.......(CNN, 16 April 03)

Prosecutors Detail Lavish Way of Life of Double Agent Suspect

It was no secret in political and social circles here that Katrina Leung, a long-time F.B.I. informer who is accused of being a Chinese double agent, liked the good life.....(New York Times, 17 April 03)

Prosecutors say rich socialite is a flight risk.....(San Francisco Chronicle, 17 April 03)

Judge denies bail in FBI-China case......(AP, 17 April 03)

U.S.: Leung may have tipped Chinese to spy investigation....(CNN, 17 April 03)

Modern Mata Hari in court......( AFP, 17 Apr 03)

Sex, Spy Scandal Rocks UC Lab.....(UC New University, 17 April 03)

FBI Investigates Spy Scandal at UC Nuclear Lab......(UCSB Daily Nexus, 17 April 03)

Alleged double agent's taxes eyed

The Los Angeles woman accused of being a Chinese double agent also helped clinch a deal that allowed Nortel Networks to do business in China, then allegedly used the $1.2 million she made on the contract as part of a tax dodge.....(Reuters, 18 April 03)