- Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser to President
Bush, has recently granted an interview to virtually every reporter but
me. Perhaps it is because I keep asking her questions about the Chinese
spy in her past.
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- Rice has impeccable credentials. She worked for the elder
George Bush in the White House, handling Russian issues.
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- She is a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution
and former provost of Stanford University. Rice is very close to former
Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry. Rice worked with Perry and
the Clinton administration during her term at Stanford. The Clinton White
House once mentioned her as being on the short list for secretary of state.
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- Yet it is her years at Stanford working with Perry that
have rendered Rice silent. While working at Stanford, she became involved
in the most successful Chinese army penetration of the Clinton Defense
Department. She will not answer questions about her relationship with Chinese
spy Hua Di.
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- Hua Di was born into a family of prominent Communist
officials. He studied missiles in Russia and worked for the Chinese army
missile program for 24 years. In 1984, he went to work for the China International
Trust and Investment Co. (CITIC), a firm then part-owned by the Chinese
army.
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- Hua defected to the United States in 1989 after the Tiananmen
Square crackdown on student democracy demonstrators. He went to work as
a researcher at Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control.
There he met Rice and the Stanford Center co-directors, former Secretary
of Defense William Perry and political science professor John Lewis. In
1994, Hua used his contacts at Stanford, in Beijing and inside the Clinton
Defense Department with then-Secretary Perry to obtain a secure fiber-optic
communication system for the Chinese army. In 1994, Hua contacted an old
friend in the Chinese army then working for Gen. Ding Henggao, a close
friend of Perry.
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- In fact, Perry and Ding's relationship spans three administrations.
Perry reportedly met Gen. Ding in the late 1970s during the Carter administration.
By 1994, Perry ran the U.S. Defense
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- Department, and Ding had risen to command the Chinese
army military research bureau COSTIND, or the Commission on Science Technology
and Industry for National Defense. COSTIND, according to the General Accounting
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- Office, "oversees development of China's weapon
systems and is responsible for identifying and acquiring telecommunications
technology applicable for military use."
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- Hua Di teamed in 1994 with Stanford Dr. John Lewis, Secretary
of Defense Perry, and Gen.
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- Ding of the Chinese Army to buy an advanced AT&T
fiber-optic communications system for "civilian" use inside China.
The communications system slipped past U.S. exports laws as a joint
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- U.S.-Chinese commercial venture called Hua Mei. The Chinese
part of the venture was run by a newly formed firm named Galaxy New Technology.
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- Hua Di described himself as the "matchmaker"
between the Chinese Army and Lewis during an interview for the Far Eastern
Economic Review. Hua arranged for Gen. Ding's wife, Madam Nie Li, to head
the joint project as the Chinese co-chairman.
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- Stanford's Lewis, himself a board member of the project,
located Adlai Stevenson III, the former Democrat senator from Illinois,
to lead the American side. According to the Far Eastern Economic Review,
Lewis had Defense Secretary Perry write a personal letter on his behalf
to U.S. government officials, favoring the export to China.
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- With Perry's blessing, Hua Di and Lewis contracted AT&T
to ship the secure communication systems directly to a Chinese Army unit
using Galaxy New Technology as a front. AT&T officials who sold most
of the equipment and software were adamant that there was no need to check
the Chinese firm since the "civilian" Madam Nie Lie led it.
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- Yet, the so-called "civilian" firm was actually
packed with Chinese army officers and experts. Madam Nie Lie was not only
the wife of Gen. Ding Henggao; she was actually Lt. Gen. Nie Lie of the
Chinese Army.
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- Another member of New Galaxy Technology, according to
a Defense Department document, was Director and President "Mr. Deng
Changru." Deng is also known as Lt. Col. Deng Changru of the People's
Liberation Army, head of the PLA communications corps. Still another Chinese
army officer on the Galaxy New
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- Technology staff was Co-General Manager "Mr. Xie
Zhichao," better known in military circles as Lt. Col. Xie Zhichao,
director of the Chinese Army Electronics Design Bureau.
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- In fact, the evidence shows that Lewis worked not only
for Stanford and the Chinese army during this time period. Documents obtained
from the Department of Defense using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
show that he also worked for the U.S. Defense Department. In August 1994,
Lewis and Secretary of Defense Perry traveled to Beijing to meet with Gen.
Ding Henggao. According to the official list of attendees, Lewis accompanied
Perry as his "personal" consultant. Lewis, then a paid consultant
of the U.S. Defense Department, met in Beijing with Ding, who was also
then Lewis's partner inside a joint U.S. Chinese "commercial venture"
for military communications systems.
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- In 1997, Stanford professor Lewis was charged with using
university funding and equipment to set up the deal with Galaxy New Technology.
Stanford Provost Condoleeza Rice announced that Lewis faced an investigation
because he had used iniversity stationery and his office to run the joint
U.S-Chinese business. In the 1997 investigation, Rice issued a statement
to the university press.
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- "We'll follow what is a normal process under these
circumstances," said Rice in the 1997 interview. "Similar issues
arise quite frequently. It's not all that unusual that issues arise concerning
conflict of interest."
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- Yet, no formal charges were filed, and Rice quietly dropped
the investigation against Lewis and Hua Di. To this day, Ms. Rice will
not answer why she stopped the investigation.
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- The General Accounting Office also documented the New
Galaxy Technology scandal (GAO report GAO/NSIAD-97-5). According to the
GAO, the scandal involved the "transfer of broadband telecommunications
equipment to Hua
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- Mei, a joint venture between SCM Brooks Telecommunications,
a U.S. limited partnership, and Galaxy New Technology, a Chinese company
primarily owned by an agency of the Chinese military." In 1997, Rep.
Henry Hyde pressed Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate the Galaxy
New Technology scandal in a letter outlining his concerns. According to
Hyde, "in 1994, sophisticated telecommunications technology was transferred
to a U.S.-Chinese joint venture called HUA MEI, in which the
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- Chinese partner is an entity controlled by the Chinese
military. This particular transfer included fiber-optic communications
equipment, which is used for high-speed, secure communications over long
distances. Also included in the package was advanced encryption software."
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- By the end of 1997 the scandal was drawing too much heat
for Hua Di to remain in the United States. In an article curiously released
in October 1998, the New York Times announced that Hua Di had returned
to China in December 1997.
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- According to the New York Times, Hua met with Chinese
security officials in late 1997 and was assured that he would not be prosecuted.
On Dec. 31, 1997, he returned to China. On Jan. 6, 1998, he was arrested
and charged with passing state secrets to U.S. officials. In 1999, according
to the official Chinese news service, Chinese defector and missile scientist
Hua Di was sentenced in a people's court to 15 years for passing state
secrets to the United States.
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- The end of this story is not very pretty. Stanford officials,
including Rice and Lewis, have openly appealed to the Chinese government
for Hua's release. Rice also continues to defend Hua.
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- Rice stated in a New York Times interview that Lewis
"provided evidence to the fact that the source materials for publications
written by him and Mr. Hua were provided by approved Chinese authorities
or already were available through the Stanford University library."
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- Yet, Rice will not talk about Hua Di and the Galaxy New
Technology deal. There was more than profit for Hua and the Chinese Army
company packed with electronics experts. The secure fiber optic communication
system delivered by Hua to his People's Liberation Army general buddies
was modified in 1998 and now serves as a secure air-defense system exported
to Iraq.
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- The current Iraqi air defense network, NATO code-named
"Tiger Song," is made of U.S. and French fiber optic parts modified
and re-exported by the People's Liberation Army. Tiger Song is based on
the original secure AT&T system obtained by Hua Di in 1994. Iraqi missiles
guided by Tiger Song have repeatedly attacked U.S. fighter jets.
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- According to an August 2000 Washington Times interview,
Rice asserted, "China is not a threat."
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- Tiger Song is considered a lethal threat to American
and allied armed forces. Such sweet irony that we now face our own weapons
and they are not a threat.
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- Still, all seems to be well between Beijing and Bush.
Condoleeza Rice is national security adviser to the president, and the
Chinese Army again has a "matchmaker" inside the White House.
Just don't ask her about Chinese army spy Hua Di.
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