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Tiger trap : America's secret spy war with China / David Wise.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.Description: 292 p.. [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0547553102
  • 9780547553108
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Contents:
A thousand grains of sand -- Parlor Maid -- The recruitment -- Double game -- Destroy after reading -- "Holy shit, Mr. Grove!" -- Riding the tiger : China and the neutron bomb -- The walk-in -- Kindred spirit : Wen Ho Lee -- Sego Palm -- Trouble in paradise -- Ethereal Throne : the spy who never was -- Storm clouds -- The counterspy -- Royal tourist -- Richard Nixon and the Hong Kong hostess -- Anubis -- Endgame -- Eagle Claw -- Red Flower -- The cyberspies -- An afterword.
Summary: A history of Chinese espionage in America draws on interviews with key FBI and CIA insiders, focusing on two key cases--double agent Katrina Leung and the scientist known as Tiger Trap, who was suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets.
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For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China's many victories and defeats in its American spy wars.Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named Parlor Maid, worked for the FBI for years, even after she became a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both of her FBI handlers. Here, too, is the inside story of the case, code-named Tiger Trap, of a key Chinese-American scientist suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets. These two cases led to many others, involving famous names from Wen Ho Lee to Richard Nixon, stunning national security leaks, and sophisticated cyberspying. The story takes us up to the present, with a West Coast spy ring whose members were sentenced in 2010--butit surely will continue for years to come, as China faces off against America. David Wise's history of China's spy wars in America is packed with eye-popping revelations.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-278) and index.

A thousand grains of sand -- Parlor Maid -- The recruitment -- Double game -- Destroy after reading -- "Holy shit, Mr. Grove!" -- Riding the tiger : China and the neutron bomb -- The walk-in -- Kindred spirit : Wen Ho Lee -- Sego Palm -- Trouble in paradise -- Ethereal Throne : the spy who never was -- Storm clouds -- The counterspy -- Royal tourist -- Richard Nixon and the Hong Kong hostess -- Anubis -- Endgame -- Eagle Claw -- Red Flower -- The cyberspies -- An afterword.

A history of Chinese espionage in America draws on interviews with key FBI and CIA insiders, focusing on two key cases--double agent Katrina Leung and the scientist known as Tiger Trap, who was suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets.

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