PRC Thefts

Virtually every bit of Evidence of PRC Spying that may have occurred during the Clinton Administration has been "redacted" from the Cox Committee Report. The Clinton Administration rationale is that the "investigations are on-going" and that the Evidence itself, is "classified." In fact, essentially the only Evidence of PRC Spying that the Clinton Administration has allowed to be made public are two instances where "ethnic Chinese" US citizens, while employed at Los Alamos, are suspected of having divulged "classified" information to PRC scientists during visits to the PRC during the Reagan Administration. These two Thefts--the W-88 and the "neutron bomb"--are described in some detail in the Redacted Report.

One incident wherein we have both the Redacted Report assessment and the Panel of Experts assessment is the "neutron bomb" and there are important differences between the "language" in the Cox Committee Report in the Key Findings of the Panel of Experts. Because there are two principal categories of "classified" information--DOD "defense information" and DOE "restricted data"--and different laws cover the handling and misuse of the two different categories of "classified" information, it is important to be quite precise in the "language" that is used in the charge.