Obama has not done his homework on
past failed initiatives and Chinese espionage.
Obama's initiative - Exchange information between U.S. nuclear weapons
laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities.
Footnotes:
1- Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S. arsenal were
compromised in the past.
2- The FBI has said that it is still investigating
the theft of U.S. nuclear secrets by China from the 1990s.
3- Nuclear espionage. Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S.
arsenal were compromised.
4- China's massive cyber attacks against U.S. nuclear labs that have been
ongoing for decades.
5- U.S. intelligence has linked China to nuclear arms proliferation in
Pakistan and other emerging nuclear states.
6- Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhang Zhaozhong said, “China will not hesitate to
protect Iran even with a third World War.”
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Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama
administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between
U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities.
The idea is aimed at promoting openness and transparency by China’s military
about its secret, large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons, according to U.S.
officials.
Critics say the plan is similar to an exchange program in the 1990s that
sent U.S. nuclear scientists to China and produced one of the worst cases of
nuclear espionage. Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S. arsenal
were compromised, including the W-88 small nuclear warhead deployed on
submarine-launched missiles.
“We’ve seen this movie before, and it has a bad ending,” one official said.
Officials familiar with the plan told Inside the Ring that the initiative
was discussed during a recent policy committee meeting of senior national
security officials at the White House.
The initiative is part of the administration’s arms-control-centered
security policies. According to the officials, the administration hopes to
coax the reluctant Chinese communist leadership and its military into
engaging the United States in strategic nuclear talks, something China so
far has refused.
“This is a way to reach out to the Chinese with multilateral arms-control
programs,” said a second U.S. official familiar with the plan.
The initiative likely will face opposition from Congress.
House Republicans added language to the 2012 Defense Authorization Act that
restricts the Pentagon and Energy department from cooperating with Beijing
in setting up a nuclear security center in China. The provision, when signed
into law, will block funding for the center until the secretary of defense
certifies that China has halted nuclear proliferation and that the center
will be in line with U.S. interests.
U.S. intelligence has linked China to nuclear arms proliferation in Pakistan
and other emerging nuclear states.
The second official said the plan evokes memories of the 1990s case of Los
Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee.
Former Energy Department intelligence chief Notra Trulock stated in his 2003
book that Lee, a scientist at Los Alamos’ weapons-designing X Division,
provided sensitive nuclear weapons data to China during unreported meetings
with nuclear weapons scientists as part of Energy’s exchange programs.
Lee was the U.S. government’s chief suspect in the compromise of W-88
warhead secrets to China.
The FBI, however, mishandled the case against him, and he was never charged
with espionage. Instead, he pleaded guilty in September 2001 to a felony
charge of mishandling classified information.
Lee denied being a spy and said he was targeted by the FBI because he is
Chinese-American.
The FBI has said as recently as last year that it is still investigating the
theft of U.S. nuclear secrets by China from the 1990s. But no one has been
arrested for the crime since the Lee case.
U.S. counterintelligence in 1998 warned about China’s aggressive
intelligence targeting of nuclear scientists. It stated that “rather than
send its intelligence officers out to recruit knowledgeable sources at
facilities such as the national laboratories, China prefers to exploit over
time the natural scientist-to-scientist relationships.”
“Chinese scientists nurture relationships with national laboratory
counterparts, issuing invitations for them to travel to laboratories and
conferences in China,” the report on foreign spying against laboratories
said.
Security officials say renewing the nuclear lab exchange also would reward
China for massive cyber attacks against nuclear labs that have been ongoing
for decades
Chinese officials repeatedly have rejected U.S. calls for strategic nuclear
talks, most recently in January during the visit there by then-Defense
Secretary Robert M. Gates.
A 2008 State Department cable quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry official He
Yafei as rejecting U.S. appeals for Chinese nuclear transparency, noting
that openness “would eliminate the value of China’s strategic deterrent.”
Meanwhile, Chinese military support for U.S. enemies appears to be growing.
According to an Iranian press report from Dec. 4, Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhang
Zhaozhong said, “China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third
World War.”
Bill Gertz is a national security columnist for The Washington Times
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/21/inside-the-ring-105581724/
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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