Katrina Leung

Katrina Leung (Simplified Chinese: 陈文英; Traditional Chinese: 陳文英; Hanyu Pinyin: Chén Wényīng) is a Chinese American native of Los Angeles, California who is a businesswoman and an accused spy. Leung has earned degrees from Cornell University and the University of Chicago, and is an important figure in the Los Angeles Chinese American community, having helped raise money for the campaigns of several prominent Republican party candidates. In the early 1980s she was recruited by the FBI's Los Angeles office chief of Chinese counter-intelligence, James J. Smith, and given the code name "Parlor Maid". Working with Smith, Leung became a valued information asset and was paid $1.7 million for her services over the years. Image File history File links Leung_katrina. ... Image File history File links Leung_katrina. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiÇŽntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiÇŽnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Pinyin: , lit. ... A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ... Nickname: City of Angels Official website: http://www. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Cornell University is a research university located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York. ... The University of Chicago is an elite private university principally located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and opened in 1892. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Sterner hade fel! Elin har rätt som vanligt ... Official FBI Seal The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Counter Intelligence A uk label started and owned by John Machielsen. ...

Eventually Leung and Smith, both married, began a 20 year sexual affair. Leung had access to classified FBI documents Smith would bring to their trysts, and in early 2003 was arrested and charged with working as a double agent for the People's Republic of China government. FBI officials say they will have to re-evaluate a decade's worth of counter-intelligence work as a result of the charges against her. Smith has been arrested and charged with gross negligence. Leung also had an affair with William Cleveland Jr., a former FBI agent and chief of counter-intelligence at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A typical classified document. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ... Aerial view of the lab and surrounding area. ...

Since her arrest, Leung's family has maintained her innocence, and in a press statement compared her plight to nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee, who after being accused of nuclear espionage, was eventually acquitted of all major charges. Wen Ho Lee (Chinese: 李文和; pinyin: Lǐ Wénhé; born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese American scientist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and was accused of stealing secrets about the U.S.s nuclear arsenal for China. ...

In January of 2005, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper dismissed the case against Leung due to prosecutorial misconduct. The United States government appealed that dismissal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but reached a plea agreement with Leung before the appeal was heard. On December 16, 2005, Leung pled guilty to greatly reduced charges of lying about the affair with Smith and filing a false income-tax return. She was sentenced to three years of probation.

Political aspects

Leung's arrest also has some political implications. According to Joshua Micah Marshall of the Washington Monthly: Categories: Stub | 1969 births | Bloggers ... The Washington Monthly is a magazine based in Washington DC which covers American politics and government. ...

"Democrats, who in 1997 weathered endless—and ultimately unproven—accusations of selling political favors or national security secrets for PRC money, can take a measure of satisfaction from this unlikely coda: The only bonafide Chinese spy so far turns out to have been not only a Republican, but a well-connected GOP fundraiser. And not just any Republican fundraiser, but one who happened to be sleeping with one of the lead FBI agents investigating Democratic fundraising."[1]

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External links

• Ex-FBI Operative Pleads Guilty in Deal, Seattle Times.
• Alleged Chinese Spy Is Denied Bail, Washington Post.
• Agent in Spy Saga 'Was One Of Us', Washington Post.
• Leung Family Lashes Out at 'FBI Bungling' , Washington Post.
• "From China with Love", Frontline PBS documentary.
• Counterintelligent:How the GOP keeps the FBI stupid