Report on Chinese espionage prompts tighter security

Jun 1, 1999 12:00 PM, Access Control & Security Systems Integration Staff

For more than 20 years, China has stolen secret information on every nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal, according to the House select committee's report on Chinese espionage, or the Cox report, issued May 24. Within hours of the report's release, a Senate Appropriations subcommittee boosted spending for security and counterintelligence by 40 percent, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The report named four national nuclear laboratories as the focus of the operation: Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge and Sandia. In an NBC interview, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said "We are fixing the problem. We've taken some dramatic counterintelligence measures to beef up security at the labs. Right now I don't believe there is penetration" of security.

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