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	Katrina Leung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katrina_Leung (477 words)

	Katrina Leung Plea Bargains Sordid Case of Sex, Lies and Double-Agenting for China \| Asian American Intelligence \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Katrina Leung, 51, on Friday admitted she lied to the FBI about her intimate relationship with her FBI handler, James J. Smith, and that she failed to include all her income on her tax returns for the year 2000.
		Leung acknowledged that when she was questioned by the FBI about Smith she told them that he was ``just a good family friend'' and that she had never traveled with him abroad.
		Katrina Leung was originally accused of using a decades-long affair with a retired FBI agent to spy for China.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/512/17leung.html (818 words)

	Katrina Leung
		Katrina Leung, a Los Angeles business woman initially accused of espionage and being a double agent for China is finally free after a Federal judge tossed out the government case due to prosecutorial misconduct.
		Leung was accused of passing to the Chinese came from her handler, JJ Smith.
		Leung, a naturalized citizen, was recruited by Smith during the early 1980s to gather intelligence for the FBI during her frequent business trips to China, where she ingratiated herself with high-ranking government officials.
	binhan.home.netcom.com /KatrinaL.htm (2075 words)

	CNN.com - Accused double agent Katrina Leung granted bail - Jun. 19, 2003
		In rejecting the government's plea that Leung be held without bail as a potential flight risk, U.S. District Judge Florence Cooper stipulated that the defendant must agree not to leave Los Angeles County, with her movements monitored by a GPS tracking device.
		Leung was indicted last month on charges of illegally obtaining, copying and retaining classified U.S. national defense documents with the purpose of aiding a foreign nation and passing those documents to the Chinese government.
		Leung has told investigators she got information from Smith and another FBI agent over a period of several years without their consent and passed it on to Chinese agents.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/06/19/fbi.spy.case (401 words)

	CNN.com - Alleged Chinese double agent indicted - May. 9, 2003
		Katrina Leung was charged in a five-count indictment of obtaining, copying and retaining documents connected with U.S. national defense without authorization, but does not face an espionage charge.
		Leung admitted to investigators that she got information from Smith and another FBI agent over several years without their consent and passed it on to Chinese agents.
		Lawyers for Leung argued that FBI agents fed information to her for nearly two decades and encouraged her to give it to the Chinese government in order to obtain the trust of the Chinese in return.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/05/08/double.agent.charges (873 words)

	Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Katrina is a female name, a variant of Katherine.
		Hurricane Katrina or Tropical Storm Katrina, a name used for various tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including the catastrophic 2005 Hurricane Katrina.
		Katrina Leskanich, former lead vocalist of the music group Katrina and the Waves
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katrina (183 words)

	Two Decades of Deception Revealed: Katrina Leung hid two affairs, her role as FBI informant and, accusers say, her work ...
		Leung, who was not charged with espionage, denied betraying the United States in a statement issued last month by her family and friends.
		Leung was unwavering in her public support for the People's Republic of China touting the progress made by the Communist government and downplaying human rights concerns.
		The barest skeleton of Leung's life one characterized by her attorneys as an immigrant's American dream and by federal prosecutors as an elaborate ruse is laid out in court papers and a statement released by her husband.
	www.pipeline.com /~rgibson/deception.html (2182 words)

	USATODAY.com - Accused double agent indicted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Leung's indictment was immediately denounced by her husband, Kam, who noted that a second retired FBI agent has admitted an affair with his wife.
		She denounced the government for portraying Katrina Leung as a Chinese Mata Hari and said that the woman was convinced to keep working for the FBI even when she wanted to end their association.
		Leung claimed contacts with some 2,100 Chinese officials and frequently visited China, where she was often seen with high-ranking government officials.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-05-08-chinese-double-agent_x.htm (801 words)

	04/22/03 - Katrina Leung and Chinagate II: Time for GOP action
		Leung was arrested on April 9 and charged with illegally obtaining secret documents to the advantage of a foreign power.
		Leung is alleged to have conducted long-term sexual affairs with at least two veteran FBI counterintelligence agents.
		Leung, Isikoff’s sources say, “was the task force's chief source on prime target Ted Sioeng, a suspected Chinese 'agent of influence' whose family and businesses contributed $250,000 to the Democratic Party in 1996 and an additional $100,000 to a California GOP Senate candidate [Matt Fong].
	www.vdare.com /malkin/chinagate_II.htm (715 words)

	The Chinese Spy Who Loved the GOP Too Much - BuzzFlash News Analysis
		In news stories, Leung has been labeled as a "prominent Republican fundraiser" and "Republican activist." So the Republican scandal attack machine is silent, because she is one of them, after all.
		Katrina Leung is a 49-year-old “venture capitalist” from San Marino, Calif., who was recruited by the FBI more than 20 years ago to provide information about her native China.
		Leung’s FBI handler for most of her years of service to this country was James J. Smith, who retired from the bureau in 2000 after heading the FBI’s Los Angeles field office’s China squad.
	www.buzzflash.com /analysis/03/05/19_spy.html (898 words)

	Asia Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Leung and her husband emigrated from China to San Marino, once a nearly all-white, extremely wealthy, conservative enclave of Los Angeles.
		According to Thomas's affidavit, Leung voluntarily consented to a search of parts of her property, and provided what appeared to be incriminating documents from her safe to the FBI during the search.
		"Katrina Leung was a loyal and valuable citizen of the US and truly an 'asset' to this country, providing information that the FBI verified and then used at the very highest levels of government," her lawyers wrote.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/EE27Ad02.html (1783 words)

	Managed News 236 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Leung was identified by the federal authorities as owning a bookstore in Monterey Park and is well known as a Republic [sic] fund-raiser who is active in community groups around Los Angeles.
		Leung had admitted passing sensitive intelligence that she received from the agent to a handler in the Chinese government.
		Leung was a key informer in the campaign finance investigations, and they are concerned that she could have compromised the politically charged case by telling the Chinese where the investigation was heading.
	www.btsawyer.com /news/mn236.html (1154 words)

	Katrina Leung Affidavit in connection with James Smith affidavit
		LEUNG stated this enabled her to see documents that she wanted, and that she would remove them and copy them without Smith's knowledge when he left his briefcase unattended.
		LEUNG admitted that she had an MSS handler codenamed "Mao." "Luo" was her MSS alias, provided to her by a high ranking PRC official.
		LEUNG further stated she used such accounts to create the appearance of a separate creditor to which she made mortgage payments, when in fact she was paying herself.
	www.cicentre.com /Documents/DOC_Leung_Katrina_affidavit.htm (5362 words)

	The Chinese Mata Hari who seduced Los Angeles and the FBI - smh.com.au
		KATRINA Leung - accused of swapping sex for government secrets - had the perfect cover: Republican Party member, philanthropic businesswoman, active in the Chinese-American community, trusted player in Los Angeles politics.
		The description of Leung as a modern-day Mata Hari seems incongruous against the image of the upstanding, civic-minded woman who worked publicly to improve Chinese-US relations through her work as president of the Guangzhou Sister City Association.
		Leung's lawyers, Janet Levine and John Vandevelde, say she is an innocent woman who endangered her life to help the US.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/12/1050069122800.html (816 words)

	frontline: from china with love: introduction \| PBS
		The cases against Leung and Smith were shocking to longtime FBI observers.
		Leung's possession of secret documents and Smith's alleged complicity called into question virtually every piece of counterintelligence information on China gathered by the United States over two decades.
		"Katrina Leung is a loyal American citizen," her attorneys said in a statement issued to the press.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/etc/synopsis.html (836 words)

	Katrina Leung, James Smith Case, ret. FBI counterintelligence agent, specialized in Chinese intelligence, FBI's FCI ...
		The woman, Katrina Leung, a wealthy socialite from San Marino, a suburb of Los Angeles, had faced five criminal counts of unauthorized possession and copying of classified materials.
		Attorneys for accused Chinese double agent Katrina Leung argued Thursday that the charges against her should be dropped, claiming that prosecutors' plea agreement with a retired FBI agent involved in the spy case prohibited him to be interviewed by the defense………..(AP, 9 Dec 04)
		Katrina Leung Is Released on Bail, Vows Loyalty to the U.S. In her first public remarks since being released on bail, accused double-agent Katrina Leung declared her loyalty to the United States Tuesday and vowed to fight to clear her name.....(Los Angeles Times, 9 July 03)
	www.cicentre.com /Documents/DOC_Smith_James_J_Case.htm (1402 words)

	United Press International - Washington Politics & Policy - Exclusive: Senate asked to probe FBI case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Katrina Leung was held without bail last week on charges of spying for Beijing while posing as an FBI informant for a super-secret FBI counter-intelligence team in California.
		I.C. Smith, who is no relation to the Smith in the Leung case, said in 1990 that he had been detailed by the FBI to head a counter-intelligence team at the Department of State to assist the department in tightening up security against espionage in U.S. embassies in communist countries.
		In the affidavit, the FBI said that in 1991, Cleveland discovered Leung was possibly a double agent when he listened to a tape of a wiretap where she was talking to her supervisor in the Chinese intelligence service.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030425-051125-1426r (1740 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: To China with Love -- Apr. 28, 2003
		Leung's other lover was an FBI agent in San Francisco, whom bureau sources identified as William Cleveland Jr.
		Other counterintelligence officials also may have missed signals that Leung was a double agent and continued to use her as an informant.
		Leung hardly looks the part of a modern Mata Hari, with her librarian glasses and hair in a bun.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030428-445008,00.html (856 words)

	A hero for the 21st century
		Leung was apparently a double agent for both the FBI and the Chinese since 1982.
		For reasons not entirely clear, in 1991 Leung admitted to Smith that she had stolen his secrets and had blown the cover of two FBI agents who had traveled to China.
		He flew with Katrina Leung to San Francisco, where she met with one of the two agents whose cover she had blown and apologized to him.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/18/DD224479.DTL (641 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prosecutors alleged Katrina Leung, 50, took classified documents from the briefcase of her longtime FBI handler James J. Smith, with whom she was having an affair.
		LOS ANGELES (AP) - Attorneys for Katrina Leung, who was accused of using her romantic ties with a retired FBI agent to gain access to classified documents, asked a federal judge Wednesday to reject the government's bid to reinstate the case.
		Katrina Leung could have learnt about the bugging attempt from "pillow talk" with her long-term lover, James Smith, an expert on Chinese counter-intelligence at the FBI's Los Angeles office, the officials suspect.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=leung (2453 words)

	No Bail for Katrina Leung in China-FBI Intelligence Case - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the two FBI agents romantically involved with Leung, James J. Smith, was supposed to be her "handler." Smith has been charged with "gross negligence in handling documents related to the national defense." He was released on $250,000.
		Leung is charged with "unauthorized copying of national defense information with the intent to injure the United States or benefit a foreign nation." Over the course of the past twenty years, the FBI paid Leung $1.7 million in fees and expenses.
		Leung's husband and other relatives appeared in court and volunteered to post their own property for her bond.
	www.talkleft.com /new_archives/002429.html (538 words)

	Spy Case Dismissed For Misconduct (washingtonpost.com)
		The ruling brought an abrupt end to the case against Katrina M. Leung, a San Marino socialite and Republican fundraiser who was arrested in 2003 along with her lover, former FBI agent James J. Smith.
		Leung's arrest was a devastating blow for the FBI, coming two years after the revelation that counterintelligence agent Robert P. Hanssen had sold secrets to the Russians for 20 years.
		A Chinese American civic leader, Leung was recruited by Smith in 1982 for her valuable contacts in the top ranks of the Chinese government.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A54571-2005Jan6.html (722 words)

	AntiPolygraph.org Message Board - Print Page
		Leung were having an affair and whether she was improperly gaining access to secret intelligence that could do damage to American national security interests in the hands of the Chinese.
		The indictment includes an allegation that he failed to report Katrina Leung's refusal to submit to a polygraph "test" in 1991 and instead represented to the Bureau that the credibility of her information was supported by polygraph results.
		Leung would have faced up to 14 years in prison had she been convicted of illegally copying and possessing national security papers that she intended to use, or could have used, to harm the interests of the United States.
	antipolygraph.org /cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?board=Policy;action=print;num=1050036548 (4108 words)

	Spy Cases - U.S. - Smith-Leung
		On 12 May 2004, James J Smith, former senior FBI agent accused of having an affair with suspected Chinese double agent Katrina Leung, pled guilty to a charge of falsely concealing that affair from the Bureau.
		On 16 December 2005, Katrina Leung, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman "accused of being a Chinese double agent[,] pleaded guilty" to "a tax violation and lying to authorities about her longtime affair" with FBI counterintelligence agent James J. Smith.
		Leung was sentenced to "three years of probation and was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /spycases_folder/leung.html (1159 words)

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