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Report: Los Alamos Probe 'Flawed'
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI's espionage case against a Los Alamos
weapons scientist was ``flawed from the outset'' because
authorities identified a number of other suspects, but failed to
investigate them, a congressional report revealed today.
The report also disclosed for the first time that in a polygraph
test in February when the scientist, Wen Ho Lee, was asked if he
had passed nuclear secrets ``to any unauthorized person,'' he
failed the test.
The report by the leaders of the Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee outlined a string of missteps, communications lapses
and misunderstandings over three years that prevented the FBI
from establishing a strong case against the Taiwan-born
scientist.
The findings summarized information gathered during two
closed-door hearings the committee held on the federal
investigation into Lee. He was fired from his top-secret job last
March after being the primary suspect since 1996 in the alleged
theft by China of secrets involving the sophisticated W-88
nuclear warhead in the 1980s.
Lee has not been charged with a crime, although a federal grand
jury was hearing evidence in the ongoing case. In his only public
comments, Lee in a television interview last Sunday categorically
denied providing nuclear secrets to China or anyone else.
But the Senate report disclosed that last February, Lee was asked
during an FBI polygraph test whether he had every given specific
classified computer code related to weapons testing, or ``passed
W-88 information to any authorized person?''
``Wen Ho Lee failed this polygraph test,'' said the report.
MORE --( darned if I know ewhy this wrod is where it is )
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