Time: Thu Jul 17 07:41:12 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA03925; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:37:07 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:36:40 -0400 Originator: heritage-l@gate.net From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] To: pmitch@primenet.com Subject: SLS: Huang Received Intelligence on China (fwd) Dear Clients and Friends, Lest anyone should have any delusions about Chinagate, it now apparent that Huang and his cohorts were running a military espionage exercise inside the White House, and donating large sums of money to the Democratic National Committee, to grease the skids. Although I am opposed to capital punishment, please be advised that one of the penalties for treason is death. See Title 18 for other applicable penalties imposed by Congress. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com <snip> > >Huang Received Secret Intelligence on China > >By Steve Holland > >WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Political fund-raiser John Huang received secret >briefings about China and visited the Chinese embassy as a U.S. Commerce >Department official even though his boss had ``walled him off'' from China >policy, a Senate panel learned Wednesday. > >The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee traced Huang's path as an >Asian-American supporter of the Democratic Party to how he got hired in >June 1994, with powerful support from Indonesia's giant Lippo Group >consortium, as a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Commerce >Department. > >On a day marked by a testy exchange between the committee's Republican >chairman and its senior Democrat, Huang's former boss, ex-Commerce >undersecretary Jeffrey Garten, said he blocked Huang from having any role >in China policy at Commerce because he was ``totally unqualified'' and >lacked the necessary experience. > >``In my view he should not have been involved with China in any way at >all,'' Garten said. > >Committee chairman Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee told Garten, ``There is >evidence demonstrated that even though Mr. Huang was walled off from China >policy by you, that he visited the Chinese embassy at least six times and >received a number of calls from Chinese embassy officials. Does that >surprise you?'' > >``Yes it does,'' Garten said. > >A CIA official, John Dickerson, testified that he gave Huang 37 classified >intelligence briefings during his 14-month tenure at Commerce, concerning >trade in Asia and China in particular. > >He said a senior Commerce official at the time, the late Charles Meissner, >who died in the 1995 plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, >wanted Huang up-to-date on those topics. > >Testifying with an opaque screen protecting him from the view of >reporters, Dickerson said he let Huang read several hundred pages of raw >intelligence and left 12 written intelligence reports with him for Huang >to use as a reference tool and to keep in his safe. This was a typical >practice, he said. > >But Dickerson and a Commerce intelligence official, Robert Gallagher, >under sharp questioning from Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, >said they had no evidence that Huang had ever misused the information. > >Gallagher said Huang did not seem interested when Gallagher suggested to >him that he try to upgrade his security clearance to see more sensitive >information. > >The committee later went into closed session to examine the secret >material to which Huang was given access. > >Thompson began his hearings last week saying there were indications of a >plot by China to influence U.S. elections. But Democrats insisted it was >not clear from the evidence that illegal aspects of such a plan was ever >put in motion. > >Republicans seeking to portray Huang as a lackey for the Lippo Group's >powerful operating family, the Riadys, disclosed a Feb. 17, 1993, memo >from a woman close to the Riady family appealing to the White House for >Huang to be given a job. > >The woman, then working for a California state senator, wrote that Huang >``is the political power that advises the Riady family on issues and where >to make contributions. They invested heavily in the Clinton campaign. John >is the Riady family's top priority for placement because he is like one of >their own.'' > >The committee established on Tuesday that Huang funneled a $50,000 >contribution from Lippo in 1992 to the Democratic National Committee, and >received a severance package of close to $500,000 when he left the Lippo >Bank of Los Angeles to join Clinton's Commerce Department. > >Gary Christopherson, a bureaucrat who helped hire political appointees in >Clinton's first term, said it was Huang's status as an Asian-American that >made him attractive and that he never saw the letter in question. > >Thompson and the panel's senior Democrat, Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, crossed >swords over the circumstances of Huang's hiring. > >Glenn said Republicans were trying to create a scenario in which Huang was >``some sort of mysterious character that was placed for subversive reasons >or for some nefarious purpose, that there was some kind of plot in getting >him into this specific position.'' > >``I just saw nothing sinister about the process that was used to put him >in that position,'' Glenn said. > >Thompson fired back that Huang was apparently involved in millions of >dollars in illegal funding for the Democrats in the 1996 campaign and it >was important to find out as much about him as possible. > >19:38 07-16-97 > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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