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To: JakeStraw who wrote (400592)	4/29/2003 3:45:03 PM
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Katrina Leung, an alleged Chinese spy, who was a director of the influential Los Angeles World Affairs Council and a longtime California Republican Party activist, was a donor to Republican candidates at least since 1998 and as recently as last December. She was arrested and charged with espionage Wednesday in Los Angeles Federal Court. The government charged that Leung carried on a 20-year affair with retired FBI agent James J. Smith, 59, who was in charge of Chinese counterintelligence at the Los Angeles field office and was charged with gross negligence in his handling of national security information. He has been released on $250,000 bail. Copies of his files, including the names of FBI agents who worked on Chinese espionage cases, found their way through Leung to Chinese intelligence officials, the government charged. Smith, according to an FBI affidavit filed in support of the charges, knew since 1991 that Leung was providing classified intelligence materials to Chinese inteligence agencies but did nothing to stop her from gaining access to his files while visiting her San Marino home. Leung, a double agent who was paid $1.7 million by the FBI over a 20-year career, in the 1980's was also the lover of another former San Francisco FBI agent who did not know of her affair with Smith. He is now a director of security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and carried on an affair with Leung between 1991 and 1993 and resumed it in 1998 and 1999, the FBI addidavit revealed. "It is a sad day for the FBI," agency director Robert S. Meuller said Wednesday. Brian Sun, an attorney representing Smith, called the former counterintelligence chief "a loyal, patriotic, and dedicated former agent" who was "very disappointed" by the government's charges. american-reporter.com