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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9116)	8/17/1999 11:01:00 AM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Hi Ron, as I ve stated earlier, I'd better stay out of this. Besides, your analysis is way over my head. I ve to admit I am too sheltered to understand this sort of national security intrigues, let alone to speculate on it - it helps to spend life frivolously <G>. But one word caught my eye, namely, 'demotion,' which set off another stream of consciousness in me. If memory serves, the whole bunch of the old China Hands, the career diplomats who were sent to China before WWII to assess the political landscape and in an attempt to bring CCP and KMT to the table to fight the common enemy of the time, were being demoted - some of them into obscurity. I am talking about people like John Service who were both patriotic [since their goals were to serve their country, the USA] and conscientious as a human being. If memory serves, these people didn't get rehabilitated until the late 70s. You may be right about this particular individual, or you may be wrong, but unfortunately, group psychology is such that the horde tends to agree with the posse, even though they may think they are anti-posse <VBG> best, Bosco

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9116)	8/17/1999 10:55:00 PM
From: Ron Bower	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Ron, I have tried to stay out of the discussion on Los Alamos, but your post prompts me to reply. You post, "Question... why was a former CIA operations officer stuck working as a SSO (site security officer) at Los Alamos??" It seems to me that moving from Operations Officer to "Chief of Counter Intelligence" (not 'site security officer') at Los Alamos is not a demotion. Vrooman (not Yroon) is 61 and it was an appropriate assignment for someone of that age that has exhibited high performance in his career. There are many lesser posts that he could have been assigned to that would still be considered a promotion. I've read the Cox report and it is a report of suppositions and innuendo with no actual proof of anything - even that secrets were stolen by the Chinese (I'm sure some were stolen, not just by them but by many other countries). Much has been made of the portions of the report not made available. If they are anything like the portions that were, the uproar the report caused isn't in proportion to the information it contains. I have read everything I could find on the Wen Ho Lee case and haven't seen the information you've posted. Could you please give me a source for your statement that "The evidence against Lee goes far beyond moving data from an secured to an unsecured computer system." and the other things he has supposedly done? As near as I can determine, this is the only thing they can prove against him and the rest is just supposition - or part of a plan to put the blame on 'someone' and this someone just happens to be Chinese. According to a FoxNews report, the FBI has evidence against another Los Alamos employee that had numerous unreported contacts with PLA agents (he's caucasion) and they may be handing down an indictment soon. I'm not defending Wen Ho Lee, but I am defending his rights. The 'leaks and innuendo' to the media from Richardson and others has put him in the position of proving his innocence and it's wrong. If he's guilty then indict him, prove it in court, and send him away, but stop the attempts to convict him in the media. IMO Sec. of Energy Bill Richardson is a publicity seeker that could care less about anyone's constitutional rights as long as he can get his face in the press. JMHO, Ron