Sunday September 10 5:22 PM ET
Jailed Scientist OKs Plea Agreement
By RICHARD BENKE, Associated Press Writer
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, who
was fired and jailed on charges that he stole nuclear weapons
secrets, has reached a plea bargain in which he will plead guilty
to one charge and cooperate with federal investigators, Justice
Department sources said.
Lee will be sentenced to time already served and immediately
freed under the plea agreement, according to two senior
officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The officials said Lee, who has been jailed for nine months, has
agreed to provide information on seven missing computer tapes
with data on nuclear weapons design and testing. Three other
tapes with information Lee allegedly downloaded have been
recovered.
``The location and fate of the tapes were always of paramount
concern,'' one of the officials said. Lee said earlier that he
had destroyed the seven tapes, but the officials' comments
indicated they believed the tapes might still exist.
Defense attorneys declined to immediately comment.
District Judge James Parker said a hearing had been scheduled for
Monday on Lee's plea agreement. Lawyers had been expected to
argue Monday before an appeals court in Denver on whether Lee
should be released on bail. The plea agreement cancels that
hearing, the sources said.
The sources said Lee will plead guilty to one of the 59 counts
against him of unlawful gathering of national defense
information. He also will agree to hold himself completely
available for federal investigators and cooperate with them over
the next six months.
It was also expected that Lee would drop his allegations that
prosecutors went after him because he is Chinese-American.
``This is a favorable resolution,'' one of the sources said
Sunday, adding that it was a good outcome for both sides.
Lee, 60, was accused of downloading restricted material about
nuclear weapons to unsecured computers and tapes while working at
Los Alamos National Laboratory. His trial had been set for Nov.
6, and he could have faced life in prison if convicted of all 59
counts.
Lee has been jailed since his arrest Dec. 10.
Parker signed a release order for Lee to be freed on $1 million
bail last month before the 10th Circuit stayed his order.
Parker had set strict conditions for his release, including
electronic monitoring, restrictions on travel and limits on the
number of people with whom Lee could communicate. It was not
immediately known if those conditions would still be enforced
under the plea agreement.
Prosecutors have said releasing Lee would be a risk because he
could pass on the tapes or communicate their contents to foreign
governments.
Many scientific groups have protested the conditions of the
Taiwan-born Lee's arrest, saying he has been the target of ethnic
and racial profiling by the government.
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