To: SLSUSMA who wrote (451 ) 5/13/2001 10:37:35 AM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) | Respond to You don't know much about how classified materials work, do you? geocities.com Lee was fired in March for alleged security violations, including erasing or cutting off "top secret" markings from three highly classified documents and failing to report unauthorized contacts with Chinese officials. The FBI, which interviewed Lee six times from Jan. 17 to March 8, unsuccessfully sought to persuade him to confess to spying for Beijing. He denied any wrongdoing.investigators said he had moved vast amounts of "secret restricted data," including the so-called "source codes" of most of America's nuclear weapons, into an unclassified computer system. Prosecutors say Lee spent more than 40 hours moving the files on nights and weekends in 1993 and 1994 and repeatedly deceived his colleagues about his intentions. "The files were open to not-very-sophisticated hackers on the Internet," Cheryl L. Wampler, a computer expert at Los Alamos, testified Monday. Lee effectively had declassified the equivalent of more than 400,000 printed pages of highly classified computer data. FBI agents searching Lee's home with a warrant on April 10 found a notebook that meticulously listed in Chinese all the classified and unclassified files that Lee had moved. The notebook also indicated that Lee had put the data on at least 15 high-density portable data tapes. Six were later located in Lee's cluttered office, and two others were determined to contain unclassified data.
