[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3611]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE ADMINISTRATION HAS FAILED IN PROTECTING AMERICA'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS 
                                SECRETS

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, in 1995 the person in charge of 
counterintelligence at the Department of Energy discovered some 
devastating information. It appeared that the Communist Chinese had 
obtained our most important nuclear secrets.
  The most advanced nuclear weapon in our arsenal, the W-88, had 
somehow been given to the Communist Chinese. It was so horrific he 
could hardly believe his ears; the worst possible case, the ultimate 
national security disaster.
  Communist China was the same country that was selling weapons of mass 
destruction technology to Iran and other rogue regimes, the same 
country that imprisoned citizens for their political beliefs, the same 
country that massacred a thousand in Tiananmen Square for believing in 
freedom.
  That Energy Department official then sounded the alarm, but no one 
listened. The Justice Department unbelievably turned down the FBI's 
request twice to wiretap the scientist suspected of giving away the 
most important secret the United States owned, and political appointees 
at the White House downplayed the disaster. This administration has 
utterly failed us.

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