[CTRL] New FBI Spy Unit Gets Reno's Approval (1 of 2)

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New FBI Spy Unit Gets Reno's Approval
By Roberto Suro
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A05

Attorney General Janet Reno has approved a plan to create a separate FBI
division for counterintelligence in response to allegations that Chinese
spies stole nuclear secrets from U.S. national laboratories, a senior
Justice Department official said yesterday.

Officials at the FBI, CIA and Department of Defense have been discussing a
possible reorganization of counterintelligence operations for months. But in
the wake of a scathing congressional report on Chinese espionage, Reno "has
signed off" on the proposal and forwarded it to the White House, the senior
official said.

Primary responsibility for counterespionage operations belongs to the
National Security Division of the FBI. But that division also has other
duties, including combating international terrorism.

The proposed restructuring, first reported in today's edition of the New
York Times, would create a separate division whose sole purpose would be to
root out spies and protect America's vital secrets.

Amid mounting allegations of Chinese espionage this year, Reno's Justice
Department has come under criticism for refusing to approve FBI requests in
1997 to install wiretaps on Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear scientist at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. Lee was fired in March for alleged security violations,
though he has not been charged with any crime.

Justice Department officials who reviewed the wiretapping requests concluded
that the FBI did not have enough evidence to support them.

The restructuring of America's counterintelligence efforts is just part of
the burgeoning response to the release last month of a report on Chinese
espionage by a bipartisan congressional committee headed by Rep. Christopher
Cox (R-Calif.).

A possible reorganization of the Department of Energy, which controls the
national laboratories, is also under discussion. And Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson has ordered the polygraphing of an estimated 5,000 employees in
the nuclear weapons complex, the federal government's first widespread use
of "lie detector" tests outside of the CIA and National Security Agency.
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