A Convenient Spy
Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage
1st edition
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveconvenientspywen00stob
- Internet Archiveconvenientspywen0000stob
- ISBN-100743223780
- ISBN-139780743223782
- Goodreads791095
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- LibraryThing743759
- Library of Congress Control Number2001054945
- OCLC Control Number48469188
- Open LibraryOL7927314M
Classifications
- DDC327.1251073
- LCCUB271.C62 L47 2001
Alternate Titles
- A Convenient Spy - Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage
Description
"No espionage case in recent decades has been anything like the Wen Ho Lee affair. As Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman describe in A Convenient Spy, an astonishingly inept investigation of a crime that may never have occurred ended in a national disgrace. A weapons-code scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lee was hunted as a spy for China, indicted of fifty-nine counts, and held in detention for nine months as a threat to the entire nation. But after pleading guilty to just one count, he went home - with an unusual and emotional apology from a federal judge. Prosecutors' claims that Lee had stolen America's "crown jewels" of nuclear security simply evaporated. Yet Lee's motives have never been satisfactorily explained, and his often-repeated excuse that he was just backing up his work files does not stand up to scrutiny."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
World War II had just begun in Europe when Wen Ho Lee was born-December 21, 1939.
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