Code name Kindred Spirit
Subtitle: inside the Chinese nuclear espionage scandal
By: Notra Trulock.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Trulock, Notra.; Lee, Wen Ho,; Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Security measures.; Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.; Espionage, Chinese -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 20th century.; Espionage, Chinese -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 21st century.; Nuclear weapons -- United States.; Intercontinental ballistic missiles -- United States.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-372) and index.