A book on Wen Ho Lee reveals the inside story


A new book, A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage, by Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman (New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 2001), reveals the inside story of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who was accused of spy for China and finally worked free from a New Mexico courtroom. Publishers Weekly notes "Stober & Hoffman's vivid narrative reveals Lee & his wife Sylvia as an integral part of a secret intelligence game between U.S. & Chinese nuclear weapons designers, each side quietly trading information to learn about the warheads of the other ... . The authors question whether there would have been any prosecution at all if the Republican Congress had not seized on the case as a way to attack the Clinton administration & create a new enemy--China--in the aftermath of the Cold War."



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