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To: Dragonfly who wrote (3756)	6/12/1998 10:00:00 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10852

From South China Morning Post. I guess intelligence flows both ways. May be Clinton better not go to China. He could get arrested for spying. On second thought, that may not be a bad idea. AGENCIES in Washington As investigators try to determine whether American aerospace companies helped Beijing gain missile technology, the same firms are quietly helping US intelligence expand its knowledge of mainland rocket programmes. United States government and industry officials describe a steady flow of intelligence about mainland programmes during the past three years from aerospace contractors. Previously that knowledge was limited largely to what could be learned through remote methods. Officials said the US business contacts had provided substantial detail on linkages between payloads and their rockets on guidance systems and the overall reliability of the mainland's missiles. The CIA's National Resources Division, which interviews businessmen and other US citizens returning from foreign countries of interest to intelligence officials, regularly met scientists and executives working with Beijing on commercial satellite launches, said a senior industry official. "All this material is in the hands of the US Government," said the official. A congressional staff member said such "debriefings" were routine. Information on the mainland's Long March commercial satellite launchers is valuable to the US because of their similarity to Beijing's DF-5 long-range nuclear missile. Outside the former Soviet Union, the DF-5 is the only land-based strategic missile capable of striking the US. In Senate testimony, Gordon Oehler, retired director of the CIA's Non-Proliferation Centre, said on Thursday the mainland continued to be one of the world's worst offenders in terms of spreading nuclear-weapons technology. The White House went to extreme lengths to allow continued exports of US satellites to Beijing, disregarding evidence China had transferred missiles to Pakistan, he said. By so doing, the Clinton administration avoided triggering a US law that would have automatically sanctioned China and cut off US satellite exports, a move that would have hurt American satellite companies.

To: Dragonfly who wrote (3756)	6/13/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10852

That is not what Mr. Vaughn claimed. I can see you've learned well at the knee of the First Prevaricator. You are proven wrong so you just change the question. JLA

To: Dragonfly who wrote (3756)	6/13/1998 1:58:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 10852

<<You claim that Lockheed, Hughes and Motorola paid money to the Clinton campaign in 1996 in order to get waivers for china.>> Not quite. I apologize if I was not clear in my question to you. I simply asked if you knew of any non-donor companies that received waivers. You responded Lockheed and Hughes. I then ask where you got the information that execs from these companies did not contribute to Clinton campaign and DNC between 1991 and 1997. Unfortunately, you then launched into a combative series of sexual insults, accusations and non-sequitors. Message 4844305 This topic is over.