A Convenient Spy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian Hoffman, Dan Stober
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: 1999-2000
- Setting: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Wen Ho Lee, Christopher Cox, Carol Covert, Janet Reno, Notra Trulock, Robert S. Vrooman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Civil rights, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Politics, Twentieth century, Science or scientists, Ethnic groups, Minorities, New Mexico, Espionage or spies, 1990’s, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Treason, Intelligence service, 2000’s
- Locales: Los Alamos, NM
In March, 1999, The New York Times printed a front-page story headlined “China Stole Nuclear Secrets from Los Alamos, U.S. Officials Say.” The story followed earlier published accounts that China had somehow obtained secret data on U.S. nuclear warheads and marked a high point in American concern over China in the post-Cold War world. It also provided fodder for critics of the foreign and security policies of President Bill Clinton’s administration. When the alleged source of the security breach was identified as Wen Ho Lee, a Chinese American scientist working at the Los...
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