Research Catalog

Title

Code name Kindred Spirit : inside the Chinese nuclear espionage scandal / Notra Trulock.

Author

Trulock, Notra.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Encounter Books, 2002, c2003.

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Details

Description

xxi, 385 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"To this day, Notra Trulock tells us, U.S. policymakers still do not know how deeply the People's Republic of China penetrated our nuclear weapons complex. But we do know this: Chinese espionage efforts managed to obtain highly sensitive, classified data on our most sophisticated warheads and China is now beginning to field a new generation of long-range, nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles based on the technology that constituted the core of our strategic deterrent." "In Code Name Kindred Spirit, Trulock, who was director of intelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy through the 1990s, takes us inside one of the major spy scandals of recent years. In spellbinding detail, he recounts how he came to suspect that Chinese agents were compromising America's nuclear security and how his disturbing discoveries were rationalized by bureaucrats more anxious to protect themselves than to deal with the problem. Trulock tried to warn the President and Congress of what he had discovered. When his warnings were ignored, he blew the whistle, and the Wen Ho Lee affair erupted in the nation's press, creating a domestic crisis for the Clinton administration and forcing it finally to address the matter of security breaches in America's top-secret nuclear weapons program."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Trulock, Notra
• Lee, Wen Ho
• Los Alamos National Laboratory > Security measures
• Intelligence officers > United States > Biography
• Espionage, Chinese > Los Alamos > History > 20th century
• Espionage, Chinese > Los Alamos > History > 21st century
• Nuclear weapons > United States
• Intercontinental ballistic missiles > United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-372) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Making of an Intelligence Officer -- Setting the Stage -- To Build a Better Bomb -- Who Done It? -- The Horse Has Left the Barn -- The Truth Comes Out -- Testimony -- Backlash -- Aftermath.

ISBN

1893554511 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002067856

OCLC

• 49531628
• SCSB-10413626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library