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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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Subject: SLS: Chinagate is now espionage in the White House (fwd)
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>
>from the Washington Weekly:
>
> BILL CLINTON'S ALGER HISS PROBLEM
> Bombshell Report Cites Suppressed Evidence of Communist Plot
>
>
>by Carl Limbacher
>
> OYSTER BAY--Fifty years ago, a young California Congressman
>became the first to take the allegations of Whittaker Chambers
>seriously. Chambers had alleged that top State Department aide
>Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy. Hiss's ensuing trial and conviction
>on perjury charges laid bare one of the great American political
>scandals of this century: The Communists had infiltrated the
>highest levels of our government and were secretly working to
>subvert it.
>
> The revelations permanently tarnished Franklin Roosevelt's
>legacy. To this day, many New Dealers refuse to accept the
>notion that the president who had led the country through
>Depression and World War could have been so easily duped by the
>man FDR referred to as "Uncle Joe" Stalin. But the deals
>Roosevelt cut with Stalin were followed inevitably by the descent
>of an Iron Curtain across Eastern Europe. In a legendary photo
>of the Yalta meeting between FDR, Stalin in Churchill, Alger Hiss
>can be seen hovering in the background. In what may turn out to
>be one of the great historical ironies of all time, the young
>California congressman who used Whittaker Chambers to expose Hiss
>was Richard Nixon, the future 37th president of the United
>States. Ironic because fifty years later history may be
>repeating itself for President Clinton, who, because of his own
>"Alger Hiss" problem, may face the same fate Nixon ultimately
>did.
>
> Now it's clear that the taint of Communist infiltration
>haunts the Clinton administration. Yes, it has thus far
>weathered a year's worth of media reports on its campaign finance
>scandal. And four months of Sen. Fred Thompson's investigation
>into same had seemed to fall short of the mark. But it was
>Thompson himself, the press often reminds us, who set the bar too
>high. It had seemed as if the Tennessee Senator had over-reached
>at the outset, when he charged that clear and compelling evidence
>existed of a Chinese Communist plot to influence American
>elections. By the end of October, Thompson cut bait, explaining
>that, while he still believed his charge was accurate, the FBI
>intelligence data that could have proved it necessarily remained
>secret.
>
> But just days ago, Fred Thompson was vindicated. In fact, if
>anything, the story that ran on the front page of Friday's
>Washington Post makes Thompson's claim seem positively
>understated. The evidence uncovered by former Watergate sleuth
>Bob Woodward, in a story headlined "FBI Had Overlooked Key Files
>in Probe of Chinese Influence," suggests more than a mere attempt
>by the Chinese to buy access. That evidence suggests that Bill
>Clinton is embroiled in an espionage scandal the likes of which
>haven't been seen since the days of Hiss and Chambers.
>
> What else can one make of Woodward passages like this:
>
> The belatedly discovered files indicate that Maria Hsia - a
> Taiwanese American immigrant who for a decade has raised
> money for Democratic causes - was "doing the bidding" of
> Beijing as a Chinese agent, a senior official said.
>
> As Woodward noted, Hsia has connections going back to 1988
>with Clinton crony James Riady. Riady's Lippo Group has become
>in recent years pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of the
>Chinese government. Maria Hsia worked closely with John Huang,
>who's suspicious DNC fund- raising first raised eyebrows a year
>ago. Hsia was co-chair with Huang of the April 1996 Buddhist
>Temple fundraiser where $140,000 in foreign money was laundered
>on its way to help with Clinton's re-election.
>
> Speaking of Mr. Huang, another Woodward tidbit seems to put
>him firmly in the Alger Hiss territory:
>
> (FBI Director) Freeh's order turned up other previously
> undisclosed leads from FBI files, including reports
> considered reliable but unconfirmed that Huang, while serving
> as a senior Commerce Department official in the Clinton
> administration, passed a classified document to the Chinese
> government.
>
> That one classified document passed by Huang is surely the
>tip of the Chinese Communist spy-berg - given the record brought
>out at the Thompson hearings. While at Commerce Huang received
>top secret clearance (without routine FBI background checks) and
>sat in on numerous briefings covering classified material. Paula
>Greene, a secretary with the Lippo connected Stephen's Investment
>firm, recalled that Huang would sneak out from his office at
>Commerce and go across the street to Stephens' Washington office,
>where he would collect faxes and packages from his old Lippo
>bosses. Ms. Greene would notify Huang whenever Lippo material
>would arrive for him, but was instructed to do so in strict
>secrecy. Telephone records indicate that Huang himself initiated
>regular contact with Lippo throughout his Commerce Department
>stint. Huang had numerous opportunities to get U.S. secrets to
>the Chinese through that conduit alone. During a Sept. 13, 1995
>White House meeting with James Riady, Lippo lawyer Joseph Giroir
>and consigliere Bruce Lindsey, Bill Clinton personally approved
>John Huang's transfer to a key DNC post.
>
> For those who still believe, as many did for years with Alger
>Hiss, that Huang and Hsia's behavior was somehow unrelated to
>plans hatched in Communist capitals, Woodward's concluding
>paragraph contains some bad news:
>
> After Thompson announced two weeks ago that he was suspending
> his public hearings, officials said, the FBI obtained
> intelligence showing that the Ministry of State Security in
> Beijing - the Chinese equivalent of the CIA - boasted it had
> been successful in "thwarting" the congressional inquiry.
>
> So much for Chinese strongman Jiang Zemin's denials of just
>two weeks ago, which he offered personally while looking Clinton
>right in the eye, that there was no Chinese plot. Of course,
>what significance is such a denial of conspiracy - as offered
>from one conspirator to another? That may be a heady charge.
>But look at the evidence staring Americans foresquare in the
>face.
>
> On February 2, 1996, the BATF issued special importation
>permits for 100,000 Chinese assault rifles and millions of rounds
>of ammunition. The guns were unmodified and therefore illegal as
>per Bill Clinton's own assault weapons ban. Then why did our
>government wave them in at a time when there was no legal US
>market for such weaponry? Here's a clue: On February 6, 1996,
>just four days after those permits were signed, Bill Clinton
>feted Chinese arms dealer Wang Jun inside the White House. Wang
>had been brought to the White House by Clinton funny-money man
>Charlie Trie, whose invitation had been greased by investment
>banker Ernest Green's $50,000 contribution.
>
> This incident was separate and distinct from the 4,000 AK47's
>that Wang Jun's Polytechnologies had attempted to smuggle to
>Oakland street gangs using Chinese government ships. In fact,
>within a month of Wang's White House visit that smuggling
>operation was busted; a development that scuttled the much larger
>100,000 gun Polytechnologies deal. But the fact remains, not
>only did Mr. Clinton play host to a Communist princeling who was
>then running a massive US smuggling operation, he was apparently
>willing to grant Wang special dispensation from gun control laws
>that Clinton himself fought hard to pass.
>
> Curiously, the illegal Wang Jun/Clinton administration gun
>deal was reported only by Michael Hedges of Scripps Howard News.
>Hedges' story ran on the front page of the March 14, 1997
>Arkansas Democrat Gazette - above the fold. But apparently
>neither The Washington Post nor The New York Times noticed. In
>fact, this development went unreported by every national news
>outlet in America.
>
> Need more evidence that Bill Clinton was willing to put
>America in harm's way for the price of his own re-election? Try
>renowned New York Times columnist A. M. Rosenthal - who just last
>month explored "Clinton's Nuclear Deception." Rosenthal began
>thusly:
>
> Craftily, ever so craftily, President Clinton is deceiving
> the American public about a critical danger to world
> security: China's international sales of materiel and
> technology of nuclear warfare.....No previous President, and
> not even Mr. Clinton himself until now, would take the step
> required to permit Chinese nuclear shopping in America -
> certifying that China was not illicitly peddling its own
> nuclear goods abroad. The U.S. knew that was not true.
>
> Rosenthal concludes:
>
> President Clinton is crafty, but not crafty enough. He has
> turned China's broken pledges into a guilt of his own -
> deception about a matter of life and death, many lives and
> perhaps some hideous day, many deaths.
>
> It's hard to see how importation permits for a Chinese
>government gun runner and nuclear technology for the Butchers of
>Beijing are in America's interest. And the only aspect that
>explains how any of this is in Bill Clinton's interest is the
>Chinese campaign cash, raised by foreign agents like John Huang
>and Maria Hsia, that bought him his re-election.
>
> No wonder the Chinese CIA is happy. Somewhere, no doubt, the
>recently deceased Alger Hiss is smiling. But for the rest, who
>may find all this less amusing, I suggest a visit to Georgia
>Congressman Bob Barr's website ( http://www.house.gov/barr ),
>where support for Barr's resolution for an impeachment inquiry
>can be registered via e-mail.
>
> Published in the Nov. 17, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly
> Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
> Reposting permitted with this message intact
>
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