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Richardson makes 11th-hour offer of documents, avoids subpoena
6.35 p.m. ET (2345 GMT) November 8, 1999 By Tom Raum, Associated
Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy Secretary Bill Richardson made an
11th-hour offer of a classified document to a House subcommittee
Monday, moments before the panel was to vote to subpoena the
material in an inquiry into the alleged Chinese theft of nuclear
missile warhead technology secrets.
Richardson made the offer in separate phone calls to Rep. Duncan
Hunter, R-Calif. , chairman of the Armed Services Committee's
military procurement panel, and to Rep. Norman Sisisky, D-Va..,
the subcommittee's senior Democrat, Hunter and Sisisky announced.
The panel met and took no action on the proposed subpoena,
agreeing to take Richardson at his word. Hunter said, however,
that if the document wasn't delivered to the panel Tuesday
morning, "then we will have another meeting tomorrow afternoon
and we will issue the subpoena.''
At issue is written testimony - prepared for an Oct. 6, 1998,
committee meeting - by Notra Trulock, the Energy Department
intelligence officer who triggered an investigation into alleged
Chinese spying at the nation's nuclear weapons labs. Trulock, who
later resigned, has said he was prevented by superiors -
including Elizabeth Moler, then deputy energy secretary - from
sharing information with Congress about the Los Alamos
investigation.
The subcommittee demanded the original, unedited and classified
copy of Trulock's testimony in a March 24 letter to Richardson.
Hunter contends the testimony he actually gave the committee was
heavily edited by the administration.
"I think we've been very patient on this matter,'' Hunter said.
"Dr. Trulock had prepared testimony for this committee. That
testimony had been changed. We don't know what Dr. Trulock was
going to tell us.''
Hunter asserted Energy Department officials "didn't tell us the
truth'' in October 1998 when they said there had been no recent
cases of thefts of nuclear missile technology secrets from the
Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico.
A former Los Alamos computer scientist, Wen Ho Lee, was fired in
March for violating security rules. Although not charged with a
crime, he has been the FBI's prime target in the nearly four-year
investigation of the alleged thefts.
Lee, a Taiwan-born computer scientist who worked with the
top-secret weapons design team at Los Alamos since the late
1970s, has denied giving any secrets to China and has accused the
government of singling him out because he is Chinese-American.
China has repeatedly rejected any allegations of espionage.
Sisisky cautioned that "nothing has been proven that anything has
been stolen,'' but added that the panel is entitled to the
unedited testimony. "Some of us might not agree on the need for
the document, but that is another matter.''
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