September, 1982
Charlie "Yah Lin" Trie, a Chinese national who emigrated to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1976, made five illegal contributions to Bill Clinton’s gubernatorial campaign. The contributions consisted of five separate checks totaling $1,100. Bill Clinton’s campaign acknowledged Trie’s illegal contributions with five thank you letters and Bill Clinton, after returning to the governor’s mansion in 1982, became a frequent guest at Trie’s restaurant.
http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm
December, 1982
FBI's first counterintelligence investigation of Wen-Ho Lee. Although Lee eventually took a polygraph and the FBI closed the case, Lee was deceptive when first questioned about this contact and admitted passing unclassified information to a foreign government. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99
1983
Charlie Trie met Antonio Pan at Trie's "Fu Lin" restaurant in Little Rock. Antonio Pan, then an employee of a company called United Pacific Trading Inc, participated in illegal fundraising activities with Trie in 1995 and 1996. The illegal activities would eventually lead to the indictment of both.
http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm
Mochtar Riady forms The Lippo Finance & Investment Group. Chinese agent Riady, unbelievably, hires Jimmy Carter's former SBA director, Vernon Weaver, to chair his firm… launched with the aid of a $2 million loan guaranteed by the SBA! Bill Clinton was used a character reference to help … the loan. The Lippo Group makes their first loan to Little Rock Chinese restaurant owner, Charlie Trie - –
The Washington Post 10/20/96
Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf
"...Most of the files in Lee's computer had been transferred from Los Alamos' highly secure computer system in 1994-95, although evidence was found the Lee made some authorized transfers as early as 1983, an official said. He said there was no evidence that the files were accessed from outside the laboratory, but also no assurance that they were not...." - USA Today 4/29/99 AP
"...BILL RICHARDSON, ENERGY SECRETARY: In the course of the investigation, we found out that a massive number of information was transferred, from classified to unclassified, during the period of 1983 to 1995. This was serious. This was unconscionable..." - Money Line Lou Dobbs CNN 4/28/99 [Alamo-Girl note: please compare this statement with the above, and at the recommendation of other Freepers, also please consider the state of the art in computer technology in 1983…]
1984
1984-88
Period during which W-88 nuclear warhead information is believed to have been compromised. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99
".... In 1984, Lee was told to take a polygraph test and "showed deception on seven questions'' that should have alerted security officials, said Domenici. Instead, the data became buried and was never passed on to lab managers. When the Energy Department office in Albuquerque, N.M., five years later raised some questions about the 1984 polygraph tests, the file disappeared when sent to Washington, said Domenici, so three years later the regional office had to hire a contractor to reconstruct Lee's personnel file..." Associated Press 5/5/99 H. Josef Hebert
Russian KGB Defector Golitsyn warns of Russian-Chinese partnership - WorldNetDaily 5/27/99 J R Nyquist
April 15, 1984
Defense Estimative Brief describes the then ongoing efforts of China to make "qualitative improvements" in its nuclear arsenal "from both overt contact with U.S. scientists and technology, and the covert acquisition of U.S. technology." - National Security Archives 5/27/99
December, 1984
FBI Director William H. Webster stated, "We have more people charged with espionage right now than ever before in our history. ..." - WorldNetDaily 5/27/99 J R Nyquist
December 7, 1984
Charlie "Yah Lin" Trie became a Citizen of the United States of America.
http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm
1984-1985
Seventeen major espionage cases were brought into the limelight- WorldNetDaily 5/27/99 J R Nyquist
Mid 1980's
Chinese obtained design information on the W-88 - Washington Times Nancy Roman 5/26/99
1985
Gov. Clinton got the Arkansas Teachers retirement fund to invest in Norinco and Cosco. 6/8/98 Marvin Lee Washington Weekly
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Vince Foster, James Riady, Jackson Stephens, Webb Hubbell, David Watkins, William Kennedy, Mack McLarty, Betta Carney and William Cravens all met at Worthen bank in Arkansas. Riady and Stephens owned Worthen Bank. -
http://users.aol.com/beachbt/lippdots.txt
LA Times 3/14/99 Jim Mann "…In 1985, a defector from China's Ministry of State Security named Yu Zhensan, who was hurriedly and secretly spirited out of China by American intelligence, told U.S. officials that China had a spy in the CIA. Investigators found that Chin, a CIA translator and analyst, had been spying for China over a period of more than three decades. He had held a security clearance since 1970 and had been passing on documents to a Chinese contact in Toronto, Canada, in exchange for about $10,000 a year deposited in a Hong Kong bank account. Chin was arrested, tried and convicted of espionage in Alexandria, Va. While awaiting sentencing, he committed suicide in his jail cell by asphyxiating himself with a trash bag. There have been one or two other cases in which China was caught trying to obtain America's military and foreign policy secrets. In 1987, two Chinese diplomats were quietly asked to leave the United States after one of them accepted what he believed were classified documents from the National Security Agency. The man who was offering the documents turned out to be an FBI agent working undercover in a sting operation. But most of the Chinese cases over the last 20 years involved scientific and economic espionage….."
Arkansas state pension funds, deposited in Worthen by Governor Bill Clinton, suddenly lose 15% of their value because of the failure of high risk, short-term investments and the brokerage firm that bought them. The $52 million loss is covered by a Worthen check written by Jack Stephens in the middle of the night, an insurance policy, and the subsequent purchase over the next few months of 40% of the bank by Mochtar Riady. Clinton and Worthen escape a major scandal
http://www.frontpagemag.com/clinton/smith10-16-98.htm
Worthen holding company assets include the Jackson Stephens controlled Worthen Bank. Price: $16 million. Other Worthen co-owners will eventually include BCCI investor Abdullah Taha Bakhish. Within a few months, James Riady is found managing Worthen as President. It is also at this time that Bill Clinton attends numerous luncheons at Worthen. Clinton become inseparable friends with Riady and Charlie Trie.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/clinton/smith10-16-98.htm
Charlie Trie received a $60,000 loan from James Riady which allowed him to expand his restaurant operations.
http://www.house.gov/reform/reports/fundraising/4b_trie.htm
Mochtar and James Riady engineered the takeover of the First National Bank of Mena in a town of 5,400 with few major assets beyond a Contra supply base, drug running and money-laundering operations.
Energy Secretary Herrington initiated the most massive increase in security spending at DOE in two decades. ....Edward V. Badolato, Herrington's deputy assistant secretary for security affairs from 1985 through 1989, was told one of his first tasks at the Energy Department was to evaluate the security problems first-hand. He quickly pulled together a team of half-a-dozen specialists. Over the next thirty-odd days, they surveyed all 58 facilities which make up the nation's nuclear weapons infrastructure. Badolato's recommendations resulted in Operation Cerberus, a $1.5-billion comprehensive security program. The overhaul spanned the gamut from instituting new physical fitness and marksmanship qualifications standards for plant security guards to high-technology safeguards. The American Spectator 5/99 John Roberts II
China conducted a half-dozen tests in the mid-1980s of neutron bomb technology believed to have been stolen from the United States, the last test was in 1988. - AP 5/14/99
January 9, 1985
In January 1985, [Peter] Lee met with top Chinese nuclear scientists, where he twice divulged secrets about his laser work and "discussed problems the United States was having in its nuclear weapons testing simulation program," according to court records. Lee had traveled to China with a group of scientists at the invitation of a Chinese visitor to his laboratory. Lee was supposed to act as a translator for the American delegation, according to the 1998 report on threats to the Department of Energy. Lee later told the bureau that on or about Jan. 9, 1985, in a Beijing hotel room, a Chinese nuclear-weapons scientist asked for Lee's help, saying that China was a "poor country." Lee told the FBI, according to court records, that he decided to help because he wanted to bring China's scientific capabilities "closer to the United States." The Chinese scientist drew a diagram and asked Lee questions about his laser research, according to court records filed in connection with his sentencing. Lee said he responded with detailed answers. The next day, Lee was picked up at his hotel and driven to another hotel to meet a group of Chinese scientists. He answered their questions for two hours, drawing diagrams and providing specific mathematical and experimental results related to laser fusion research. The laser fusion research that he gave to the Chinese was declassified by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary in 1993, prompting several of Lee's former colleagues to recommend a lenient sentence to the sentencing judge. New York Times 5/10/99 JEFF GERTH and JAMES RISEN
June, 1985
China announced plans for a new commercial space program - satellites, rockets and ground stations The New York Times, 7/26/85
December 16, 1985
US Arms Control/Nonproliferation Sanctions Against China "…Prohibition of the export of nuclear materials, facilities, or components -On 23 July 1985, China and the US signed a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement -US Congress enacted an approval resolution (PL 99-183) that requires presidential certification of certain conditions before export licenses may be issued for nuclear material, facilities or components covered by the agreement Active…" - Congress
1985-1986
John Huang served as vice president of the Lippo Hong Kong bank - Washington Times 4/9/99 Jerry Seper
