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http://www.apbonline.com/majorcases/china/1999/05/13/china0513_01.html
SECRETS STOLEN, BUT WHICH ONES AND HOW MANY?
Conflicting Views of U.S. Security Losses
May 13, 1999
By Jim Krane
NEW YORK (APBNews.com) -- As the smoke clears from nuclear
spying
allegations against China, intelligence analysts are forwarding
dueling theories about any resulting gains in China's military
development.
At the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore nuclear
laboratory, a visiting delegation of Chinese scientists
posed
with Edward Teller, father of the U.S. hydrogen bomb, in
1994.
Congressional statements about the damage to U.S. security --
echoed
in media reports -- suggest the United States' nuclear deterrent
has
suffered greatly at the hands of the Chinese.
The United States lost "the crown jewels of our nuclear
arsenal,"
said Rep. Christopher Cox last month. Cox is chairman of a
select
committee on Chinese espionage, whose yet-to-be-declassified
report
is due to be released this month.
And The New York Times reported last month that computer codes
copied from an Energy Department weapons laboratory "may have
compromised the U.S. nuclear arsenal."
But the CIA's assessment of the damage to U.S. security sounds
decidedly milder.
"To date, the aggressive Chinese collection effort has not
resulted
in any apparent modernization of their deployed strategic force
or
any new nuclear weapons development," states a CIA report
outlining
key findings from its analysis of technology transfers to China.
Related Document:
CIA Assessment of Damage to U.S. Security
Translating knowledge into weaponry
The CIA stresses that, while inroads were made into classified
Department of Energy computers, that doesn't mean the Chinese
gained
vital U.S. defense secrets. And if Chinese scientists did manage
to
purloin weapons technology, they haven't yet been able to
translate
the knowledge into modern weaponry.
The CIA report credits the Chinese with obtaining at least basic
design information on U.S. nuclear warheads, chiefly the
ultra-compact W-88. Espionage has allowed China to focus and
accelerate its weapons programs, the CIA report states.
A lack of evidence
At the Federation of American Scientists, Steven Aftergood,
director
of the association's Project on Government Secrecy, sides with
the
CIA's analysis. Americans don't yet know exactly what's been
lost,
stolen or copied, Aftergood said.
"The reporting on these allegations has far exceeded the
available
evidence," he said. "Certain information on the W-88 warhead and
other weapons definitely were stolen. But exactly what was
stolen on
those weapons, we're not sure."
Aftergood said the Chinese -- or anyone else -- can obtain basic
information on the W-88 and other nuclear weapons from open
sources
such as scholarly journals and unclassified reports.
Knocking CIA's accuracy
But another China watcher, Bill Triplett, former Republican
counsel
for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the CIA's
recent
record in estimating a nation's weapons-producing capabilities
is
far from accurate.
"That [CIA report] is written by the same people who predicted
the
North Koreans would never have a two-stage rocket," said
Triplett,
citing the recent North Korean test-firing of a two-stage rocket
over the Sea of Japan.
Aftergood said much of the espionage now coming to light took
place
a decade ago or more. To date, no corresponding modernization of
China's weapons arsenal has taken place.
"So if they stole it, they haven't done anything with it," said
Aftergood.
Truth is hard to find
But U.S. intelligence gatherers may not know exactly what
weapons
the Chinese have produced or are close to producing. Triplett
said
Chinese counterintelligence officials might be pursuing a
deliberate
agenda of deceit.
"We think the Chinese are engaged in a big 'development and
deception' program," said Triplett. "They have more weapons and
newer weapons then they say they have."
And the purloined U.S. arms technology might not show up in
China's
arsenal for another five or 10 years, said Duncan Wrigley, an
Asian
researcher for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
Wrigley said China would more likely use the weapons to face
down
some of its neighbors in East Asia, rather than the United
States.
Bigger worries: Iran, Iraq, Syria
The three analysts found another facet of the CIA report more
worrying. As the Chinese modernize their nuclear arsenal, the
CIA
warns that older weapons might be sold to arms-hungry nations
outside the sphere of nations friendly to the West.
"Anything that was ever sold by us or stolen from us, you have
to
assume it'll wind up in Iran or someplace like that," said
Triplett.
"You think it's bad enough that it goes to China. But it
replaces
older stuff that can go 'Bang,' and the older stuff goes to
Iran,
Iraq and Syria."
Submarines in danger?
One of the U.S. military technologies apparently compromised by
scientist Peter Lee, a former physics researcher on arms
projects
for the departments of Defense and Energy, deals with radar
technology that may be used to track movements of submarines up
to
an undersea depth of hundreds of feet.
Since the United States relies on stealthy Trident submarines to
carry a portion of its nuclear arsenal hidden below the sea's
surface, Chinese ability to uncloak the submarines would
seriously
weaken U.S. defenses, Aftergood agreed.
But Wrigley said the radar technology, if China is able to use
it,
would probably only affect U.S. ships in East Asian waters, such
as
the Taiwan Strait.
"It's important to remember that China is not the Soviet Union
and
this is not the Cold War," Aftergood said. "China is not trying
to
establish an empire around the world, and we are not rivals with
China in the way we were with the Soviet Union."
Jim Krane is an APBNews.com editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
APBNews.com
researcher Tom Martin contributed to this story.
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Senate's Kosovo budget bill is turned
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Quiz question: Which of the following items
are included in the U.S. Senate's "emergency spending legislation,"
designed to pay for the U.S. military action in Yugoslavia?
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* Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), chairman of the Senate Budget
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* President Clinton is demanding up to $1 billion in aid for
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