NYT: All Charges Are Dismissed in Spy Case Tied to F.B.I.

[Buck Turgidson]

By JOHN M. BRODER and NICK MADIGAN
Published: January 7, 2005

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese-American woman accused of using a long-running sexual relationship with a senior F.B.I. agent here to obtain national security documents.

The woman, Katrina Leung, a wealthy socialite from San Marino, a suburb of Los Angeles, had faced five criminal counts of unauthorized possession and copying of classified materials. The prosecutors said she removed the files from the briefcase of James J. Smith, a senior F.B.I. agent with whom Ms. Leung had an affair for 20 years.

The prosecutors said they stopped short of charging her with espionage because they could not prove that she had passed the documents to China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/national/07spy.html

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