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March 8, 2014
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Karistina Leung

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Katrina Leung(陳文英) is a Chinese American native of Los Angeles, California who is a businesswoman and an accused espionage|spy. Leung has earned degrees from Cornell University and the University of Chicago, and is an important figure in the Los Angeles Chinese-American community, having helped raise money for the campaigns of several prominent United States Republican Party|Republican party candidates. In the early 1980s she was recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI's Los Angeles office chief of China|Chinese counter-intelligence, James J. Smith, and given the code name "Parlor Maid". Working with Smith, Leung became a valued information asset and was paid $1.7 million for her services over the years.

Eventually Leung and Smith, both married, began a 20 year sexual affair. Leung had access to classified information|classified FBI documents Smith would bring to their trysts, and in early 2003 was arrested and charged with working as a double agent for the People's Republic of China government. FBI officials say they will have to re-evualate a decade's worth of counter-intelligence work as a result of the charges against her. Smith has been arrested and charged with gross negligence. Leung also had an affair with William Cleveland Jr., a former FBI agent and chief of counter-intelligence at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Since her arrest, Leung's family has maintained her innocence, and in a press statement compared her plight to nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee, who after being accused of nuclear espionage, was eventually acquitted of all major charges.



  • Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34074-2003Apr15.html Alleged Chinese Spy Is Denied Bail

  • Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58327-2003Apr19.html Agent in Spy Saga 'Was One Of Us'

  • Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58279-2003Apr19.html Leung Family Lashes Out at 'FBI Bungling'


Category:Chinese Americans|Leung, Katrina

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Last Modified:   2005-02-25


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