Yes, he had some securities lapse in his work and might leaking a little secret information out during academic exchange.
Hui, I would suggest that there is no such thing as a "little secret information" when it deals with nuclear secrets. Weapons that are capable of massive destruction and carnage. I feel the same way about biological and chemical weapons.
But I would be interested in knowing how a country like China or Russia would deal with such a "lapse" of security protocols? I suspect that they would have been rapidly executed as an example to other scientists to watch their step. Could you give us a little insight from the Asian (chinese perspective?)
Also, just because Wen Ho Lee is Chinese, don't believe that the US only prosecutes minorities for espionage or security lapses. I can present to you several non-minorities who are currently serving life sentences (but probably deserved execution) such as Johnathan Pollard, Aldrich Ames, and John Walker.
But I'm not yet sure whether the following non-minority white guy deserves death. But it does show that retirement won't help one to escape the crimes from their past:
Retired Army colonel charged with spying
United Press International - June 14, 2000 14:27
TAMPA, Fla., June 14 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury in Tampa, Fla., has indicted a retired U.S. Army colonel with spying for the Soviet Union's KGB intelligence agency from 1969 until 1994, revealing what the United States knew about the Soviet military during the Cold War.
U.S. Attorney Donna Bucella said George Trofimoff, 73, is the highest ranking U.S. military officer to be charged with espionage.
She said he "obtained classified information while serving as a civilian chief of the United States Army element of the Joint Interrogation Center in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1969 through 1994."
"During most of that time, Trofimoff served in the United States Army Reserve, retiring as a colonel," she said.
Trofimoff lives in Melbourne, Fla., and was arrested Wednesday in Tampa. He retired from his civilian position with the Army in 1995 after 35 years.
The indictment said he had access to classified information that he passed along to a clergyman in the Russian Orthodox Church. The two had been raised together in Germany and Bucella said and Trofimoff considered him a brother.
Bucella told a Tampa news conference Trofomoff got payments, bonuses and special payments in exchange for classified information, including documents he had photographed.
The two had been arrested by German authorities in 1994 but were released because investigators couldn't prove the crimes fell within a five-year statute of limitations. There is no such statute in the United States relating to espionage.
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