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Stober, Dan & Ian Hoffman. A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage. S. & S. Jan. 2002. c.359p. index. ISBN 0-7432-2378-0. $26. INT AFFAIRS
In December 1999, Wen Ho Lee, an immigrant from Taiwan who worked on nuclear weapons research and development at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, was accused of downloading topsecret material and an open-access portion of the lab's computer network onto tapes (which he claimed he destroyed) and then handing them over to Beijing (and perhaps Taipei as well). This convoluted case wound up making Lee into a minor folk hero and leaving the federal government …