-Caveat Lector- Sunday May 9, 1:52 PM Mrs. O'Leary's Chinese Cash Cow? Now that it's clear America's nuclear security has gone up in smoke, it may be time to borrow a phrase from the Great Chicago Fire and ponder the role of former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and her onetime cash cow, Johnny Chung. Recent media reports have focused on the $300,000 Chung received from Chinese military intelligence and the $35,000 of that sum (at least) that found its way into Democratic National Committee coffers. But the press seems to be suffering a bout of collective amnesia regarding information on Chung it reported two years ago, which points to a much more direct financial connection to O'Leary -- and even a member of the first family. O'Leary was in charge of security policy at U.S. nuclear labs where Newsweek, for instance, has now described the Chinese penetration as "total." Here's what's been on the record about the Chung-O'Leary money trail for nearly two years: "No less startling was Mr. Chung's allegation that the Democratic Party was not the only player with a ravenous appetite for money. He also described how he was, in effect, shaken down for a $25,000 donation to Africare, a charitable organization supported by the Energy Secretary at the time, Hazel O'Leary." (New York Times, Aug. 22, 1997) Here's how Chung himself put it, in an exchange with NBC's Tom Brokaw days before the Times report: BROKAW: Were you surprised when someone could get you in to see Hazel O'Leary if you would write a check to her favorite charity? CHUNG: I begin to understand a little bit, but I am still a little bit surprised. BROKAW: Yeah. Who picked up the check? CHUNG: There's one gentleman, present himself as the Energy Department official, and said I'm here to pick it up, the $25,000 check ... BROKAW: To Africare? CHUNG: To Africare. BROKAW: A charity that the energy secretary supports, she sends over somebody from the Energy Department to pick it up, and you get a meeting with her with a very prominent Chinese petrochemical official? CHUNG: Yes. (Investor's Business Daily -- Aug. 26, 1997) The Chung-O'Leary money trail deeply troubled even stalwart media FOBs like Lars-Erik Nelson, who complained in his New York Daily News column that, "Johnny Chung's story about Hazel O'Leary could put some people in jail." Other reports at the time noted that Chung also ponied up $25,000 to a group formed to attack Sen. Al D'Amato, who was then chairing congressional hearings into the Clintons' Whitewater land deal. After that, Chung got to meet the first lady herself, who, Chung says, offered him the greeting, "Welcome to the White House, my friend." Of course, news that O'Leary had her hand in Chung's cookie jar came 18 months before we learned that the Chinese had obtained 50 years worth of our nuclear secrets, with most of them disappearing out the back door on O'Leary's watch. NewsMax.com Executive Editor Chris Ruddy was the first to uncover a possible connection between lax security at our weapons labs and policy changes implemented through O'Leary. In his March 11, 1999 report, "Scientist: Clinton Administration Gave China Top Nuclear Secrets", Ruddy revealed: "China's efforts culminated with a delegation of Chinese scientists who visited [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory] in the winter of 1994, and another visit by Department of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary at about the same time." Ruddy's source, a Livermore whistleblower, contended that "the Clinton administration has, in fact, aggressively sought to provide China with some of the most closely guarded nuclear weapons technology." At Livermore, this scientist said, "the administration had facilitated the transfer of laser technology employed in the process of making nuclear weapons-grade plutonium." After O'Leary's 1994 meeting at the California lab, "the scientist recalled several Livermore scientists in a heated debate over whether 'this type of information [relating to the weapons-enriching laser process] should be considered for technology transfer' to China." "The deal with China for the technology transfer was consummated, the scientist said, sometime later that year after O'Leary's visit, when top DOE officials, Department of Commerce officials representing Ron Brown, White House representatives and Chinese government officials met in a guarded room at the Pleasanton Hilton nearby to Livermore." CIA official described as "worse than the Rosenberg spy case," Inside Cover wonders why the press has forgotten about Chung's donations to the pet causes of O'Leary and Mrs. Clinton. Depending upon how Chung explains those donations in testimony before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee this week, the Clinton administration could emerge as a victim of a Chinese plot to subvert U.S. national security -- or as a willing co-conspirator. http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover.shtml "An unarmed people are slaves, or subject to slavery at any time." --- Malcolm X Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: ....a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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