DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS
SUBSECTION: TIMELINE 1999
Revised 8/9/99

 

With many thanks to Ohmlaw98 and Jolly!

Abbreviations:
Iran-Iraq Arms Nonproliferation Act (IIANA)
Arms Export Control Act (AECA)
Export Administration Act (EAR)
Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act (NPPA)
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
Nonproliferation Treaty (NT)
Export-Import Bank Act (EIBA)

 

 

1999

 

We are scheduled to turn over Rodman Naval Station, Howard Air Force Base, and other important military facilities to Panama, which has given Hutchison an option on these bases. - Adm. Moorer THE NEW AMERICAN Freeper report dated 4/11/99

 

Early, 1999

FBI begins preliminary inquiries into other suspects as urged by OIPR in 1997. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

January 1999

Reinsch's Bureau of Export Administration delivered its first congressionally mandated report detailing supercomputer exports over the preceding 12 months. Out of a total of 390 HPCs exported by the United States during that period, 191 of them had gone to China. Despite U.S. efforts, the Chinese only allowed government officials to inspect three of them once they had reached China. Congressional sources tell TAS that they have been told by administration officials that as many as 600 HPCs have been sold to the Chinese since the 1996 decontrols--more raw computing power than can be found in the Pentagon and the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons labs, combined. - The American Spectator 5/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman

A select congressional committee sent the president additional warnings about the security of the weapons laboratories in a separate report that was also secretly delivered in January of this year. - New York Times 5/2/99 Jeff Gerth James Risen

January 4, 1999

President received the classified version of the Select Committee's report - WH Statement 5/25/99

January 19, 1999

Privately-run PT Bank Lippo will get as much as 87.5 percent of the first injection of Indonesian government funds under a banking recapitalisation program. (3.75 trillion rupiah, 417 million dollars - AFP, 01/29/99

January 21, 1999

Defense Secretary William Cohen proposed the $6.6 billion be put toward the deployment of a limited missile defense by 2005. Washington Post 1/21/99 Dana Priest

February 1999

In a separate report on the security situation in the Taiwan Strait, delivered in February 1999, the Pentagon acknowledged that the PLA communications network " uses the same types of communications mediums as the civil network.... The military's lack of communications satellites could force the PLA to rely on foreign satellite services to meet military needs in wartime or a crisis," the report stated. - The American Spectator 5/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman

In February, Lee took a second polygraph. This time, officials said, he was asked about his computer use and some of his answers were seen as deceptive. Two days later, apparently aware that investigators were now suspicious about his computer use, Lee deleted between 1,000 and 2,000 files, officials said. - New York Times 5/2/99 Jeff Gerth James Risen

"the GAO issued another report stating that Russian weapons scientists were using U.S. funds earmarked for weapons dismantling to develop weapons of mass destruction. To counter this report, Clinton called upon Rose Gottemoeller, whose views are so left-wing on nuclear deterrence that Republicans in Congress blocked her appointment to a senior Pentagon post. Clinton then appointed her to a senior position at the Energy Department. "Gottemoeller," in her counterattack, writes Gertz, "praised the program of American aid to Russia, and, contrary to the GAO's evidence, she claimed that no U.S. funds were helping build new Russian weapons. Again, the Clinton method was to deny and mislead when it came to dangerous and unpleasant facts about Russian weapons." 'Betrayal' by Bill Gertz 6/01/99 By Newsman

February 1, 1999

President provided his recommendations on the Select Committee's report - WH Statement 5/25/99

February 4, 1999

Air Force cancelled its contracts with TRW Inc. and Boeing Corp for two SBIRS-Low (ICBM Missile Defense related) demonstration projects. Claremont Institute 3/99 Brian T Kennedy

 

February 10, 1999

Lee took an FBI polygraph on questions related to espionage. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

 

February 19, 1999

The Wall Street Journal goes public with Juanita Broaddrick's rape charge against Bill Clinton, after NBC News kept her exclusive interview bottled up for a full month. The Washington Post front pages the story the next day. – Newsmax 3/12/99

Privately-run PT Bank Lippo will get as much as 87.5 percent of the first injection of Indonesian government funds under a banking recapitalisation program. (3.75 trillion rupiah, 417 million dollars). - AFP, 01/29/99

 

February 23, 1999

New York Times 2/23/99 Jeff Gerth David Sanger "...Swayed by criticisms that commercial satellite deals with China could threaten national security, the Clinton administration decided on Monday to reject the sale of a $450 million satellite to a consortium with close ties to the Chinese government, senior administration officials said.....The decision came after the Defense and State Departments objected to allowing China to launch the satellite. Overruling the Commerce Department, which had favored the sale, the State and Defense officials concluded that the technology to place the satellite in orbit would help the Chinese military make its intercontinental ballistic missile fleet more accurate....The decision effectively revokes President Clinton's quiet approval of the sale two and a half years ago….One troubling episode involved a 1995 tutorial on rocket launching given by Hughes engineers to Chinese scientists, now the subject of a criminal inquiry. Another involved the company's hiring of the son of the Chinese general who oversees his country's military satellite programs, officials said....At the time of the company's questioned deals with China, its chairman was C. Michael Armstrong, who also served as head of Clinton's export advisory council, a group of private-sector executives and labor leaders who advice the administration on trade policy. Armstrong now heads AT&T...."

Interview of Juanita Broaddrick cleared to air on Wednesday the 24th Drudge 2/23/99

 

February 24, 1999

NBC News finally airs Broaddrick's interview with Lisa Myers. Polls show the public believes Clinton raped her by a margin of 2 to 1. – Newsmax 3/12/99

Secretary of State Albright testified to Senate Armed Services Committee that the "ABM Treaty is still the cornerstone of our strategic relationship with Russia." The terms of that 27-year-old treaty with the now-defunct Soviet Union prohibits the U.S. from building a national missile defense. Center for Security Policy 3/03/99 No. 99-D 28

 

February 27, 1999

The Clintons embark on a three day Utah ski vacation, which they cut short on March 1 to return home for "a good night's sleep." – Newsmax 3/12/99

 

March, 1999

FBI examined Lee's office computer in connection with their investigation of the earlier theft at Los Alamos. They found that mostly during 1994 and 1995 millions of lines of computer code that approximate how this country's atomic warheads work -- were downloaded from a computer system at the Los Alamos New York Times, JAMES RISEN and JEFF GERTH, 04/28/99

 

March 3, 1999

Citing a new book, The New York Post reports that the President was blackmailed by the Mossad, who had recorded his phone-sex chats with Monica Lewinsky. – Newsmax 3/12/99

 

Monica Lewinsky lets it all hang out with Barbara Walters. The two hour ABC News blabfest draws 75 million viewers. – Newsmax 3/12/99

 

March 5, 1999

STAR Magazine reveals that secret evidence shared with key congressman on the eve of the impeachment vote contains sexual harassment complaints against Clinton by three female Secret Service agents. The still sealed files include two more Juanita Broaddrick-like allegations, a congressional source tells STAR. – Newsmax 3/12/99

 

March 6, 1999

The New York Times landed another shocking scoop: "Working with nuclear secrets stolen from an American government laboratory, China has made a leap in the development of nuclear weapons: the miniaturization of its bombs." The Times emphasized "The White House was told of the full extent of China's spying in the summer of 1997, on the eve of the first U.S.-Chinese summit meeting in eight years - a meeting intended to dramatize the success of President Clinton's efforts to improve relations with Beijing....a reconstruction by The New York Times reveals that throughout the government, the response to the nuclear theft was marked by delays, inaction and skepticism - even though senior intelligence officials regarded it as one of the most damaging spy cases in recent history." Network coverage? In the first nine days of the story, the Big Three aired only 11 evening stories. The morning shows were worse, airing only six full news reports and one interview in the first ten mornings. As administration spokesmen went uninterviewed and unchallenged by the morning shows, ABC's Good Morning America had time for a half-hour on weight loss. CBS's This Morning asked O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran about his upcoming appearance on the CBS soap Guiding Light. Two networks urgently discussed the 40th anniversary of the Barbie doll. When the networks did touch the story, it came flattened by skepticism. Only NBC's Today aired an interview. On March 9, Katie Couric helped Energy Secretary Bill Richardson make excuses: "Isn't there a possibility that China could have done this on its own?" Since the first ten days, the Big Three have ignored several significant revelations: - Media Research Center 4/26/99 Tim Graham

The New York Times blows the lid off Clinton administration footdragging in the investigation of Chinese espionage at the nation's leading nuclear-weapons research facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico. – Newsmax 3/12/99

New York Times published article detailing alleged theft of nuclear secrets from LANL. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

 

March 7, 1999

The White House announces that the First Lady will not accompany the President on his Central American campaign swing, saying she had to nurse her bad back. – Newsmax 3/12/99

 

Sexgate whistleblower Linda Tripp tells "This Week's" Sam and Cokie that Mrs. Clinton was mixed up in every White House scandal she had knowledge of. Tripp also explains that the "Juanita" she and Lewinsky discussed on tape was not Juanita Broaddrick, but yet another woman who could prove "difficult" for the President. – Newsmax 3/12/99

 

March 8, 1999

Juanita Broaddrick's son Kevin Hickey discusses his mother's rape by Clinton on Larry King Live. Afterwards, former Clinton aides Dee Dee Myers and David Gergen look like they've been hit by a Mack truck. – Newsmax 3/12/99

Wen Ho Lee is fired by the DOE - New York Times, JAMES RISEN and JEFF GERTH, 04/28/99

Wen-Ho Lee fired by DOE, more than 18 months after FBI first told DOE that there was no longer any investigative reason to allow the espionage suspect to remain in place– Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

(afterwards) Lee consented to FBI search of office and computer– Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

 

March 11, 1999

NewsMax.com reveals administration complicity in new Chinese nuclear espionage at California's Lawrence Livermore Labs. – Newsmax 3/12/99

The New York Post front pages the Clintons' marital woes, echoing the previous night's FOX News and Drudge reports. – Newsmax 3/12/99

March 15, 1999

Sen. Inhofe speaks up on the National Security issues, China, treasonous conduct – Inhofe speech

March 16, 1999

It took just over a year for Raymond Mislock, associate deputy director at the CIA, to conclude that his ideas for fixing security problems at the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons plants and laboratories were falling on deaf ears. Mislock was appointed early in 1998 to the DOE's Security Management Board, a government-wide panel set up to address concerns that the department lacks proper safeguards for millions of secret records and thousands of tons of nuclear material in its custody. "I expected the (DOE) wanted the input of representatives from other agencies," Mislock told department officials in a March 16 letter. "Unfortunately, my experience with the board indicates that it is a feckless exercise with no accomplishments almost 15 months after it was established." - USA Today 5/19/99 Peter Eisler

March 18, 1999

President Clinton ordered an analysis of the counterintelligence security threat at U.S. nuclear labs in the wake of suspicions that China stole nuclear weapons designs. Clinton directed the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to conduct a review. Former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., the head of the panel, will lead the investigation. Clinton acted on the recommendation of National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, whose resignation has been demanded by some Republicans because of the administration's handling of the alleged espionage. AP Barry Schweid

March 19, 1999White House sent a confusing cable to US embassies informing diplomats that the two amendments added to the Senate national missile defense bill meant "no deployment decision has been made" - The Heritage Foundation 4/8/99 Thomas Moore

"To the best of my knowledge, no one has said anything to me about any espionage which occurred by the Chinese against the labs, during my presidency," Clinton said at a White House news conference USIA, Transcript, 03/19/99

ABC's Sam Donaldson asked the obvious question: "Can you assure the American people that, under your watch, no valuable nuclear secrets were lost?" Clinton was unequivocal in his answer. You asked me [a] question, which is: Can I tell you that there has been no espionage at the labs since I have been president?" Clinton said. "I can tell you that no one has reported to me that they suspect such a thing has occurred." - Washington Post 5/26/99

March 24,1999

(Days after he is accused of TreasonGate) Clinton Launches massive bomb attack on Kosovo. Clinton claims U.S. has "moral imperative" to bomb Kosovo Reuters 3/24/99 Philip Pullella

New York Times reporter James Risen revealed: "In spring 1997, Los Alamos National Laboratory chose a scientist who was already under investigation as a suspected spy for China to run a sensitive new nuclear weapons program, several senior government officials say. The scientist, Wen Ho Lee, asked that he be allowed to hire a research assistant, the officials said. Once in the new position, in charge of updating computer software for nuclear weapons, Lee hired a post-doctoral researcher who was a citizen of China, intelligence and law-enforcement officials said....the research assistant has disappeared." Network coverage? Zero. - Media Research Center 4/26/99 Tim Graham

March 26, 1999

Senate Intelligence Committee launched a formal investigation into allegations that China stole secrets from US nuclear weapons research labs and how the case was handled by the US government. – Reuters 3/26/99

March 29, 1999

Submerged across the bottom of two pages of the March 29 issue, Newsweek correspondents John Barry and Gregory L. Vistica reported on a CIA probe of the compromised nuclear labs. Top nuclear experts "practically fainted" at how Chinese scientists routinely used U.S. lab phrases and concepts. One official announced: "The penetration is total...they are deep, deep into the labs' black programs." They also learned "Beijing recently got hold of two U.S. cruise missiles that failed to detonate during last fall's retaliatory attack on Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan," and officials want to know if the Chinese are copying that sophisticated technology. Network coverage? Zero. - Media Research Center 4/26/99 Tim Graham

March 30, 1999

After learning on March 30 that Lee had improperly moved vast amounts of nuclear secrets, Richardson said he decided to "speed up" plans adopted months earlier to improve computer security. - New York Times 5/2/99 Jeff Gerth James Risen

March 31, 1999

After several investigative news reports on the China connection by the Washington bureau of Investor's Business Daily, the newspaper's lead editorial on March 31 revealed: "As part of the probe, the [FBI] requested a wiretap on Lee. Justice denied it, arguing it did not have sufficient grounds to take to a federal court to get the tap approved. But a look at the Justice Department's record on wiretaps calls that argument into serious question. From 1993 to 1997, federal officials requested 2,686 wiretaps. For all its concern for probable cause and legal standards, the Justice Department turned down one request in those four years - Lee's in 1996." Network coverage? Zero. - Media Research Center 4/26/99 Tim Graham

Clinton Executive Order 13117 issued "to further the implementation of the reorganization of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) into the Department of State, in this instance by eliminating ACDA's vote on dual-use export license decisions in the administration of export controls"

Spring, 1999

DOE - The annual reports [Annual Report to the President on the Status of Safeguards and Security] for 1997 and 1998 reached the president - USA Today 5/19/99 Peter Eisler

April, 1999

[THE ALLEGATION AGAINST REAGAN:] "...Instead of placing stricter controls on access to the national laboratories, however, the Reagan administration issued an executive order in 1987 that loosened controls so that scientific advances could be more easily commercialized by the private sector. That order also gave freer entry to foreign citizens and corporations. Then in 1988 an alarm arose from within the government: The General Accounting Office reported to Congress that security procedures to protect sensitive data at the national labs were fearfully lax, and needed immediate improvement...." Salon 4/99 Joe Conason

"On June 18, The Washington Times ran an item in its "Inside the Ring" section quoting Pentagon intelligence sources as saying that Russia had tested in April a high-altitude weapon that fires an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP …" - Washington Times 7/12/99 James Hackett

FBI begins discussing Rule 41 criminal search warrant with DOJ's Criminal Division. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

April 2, 1999

Computer systems shut down at the laboratory - New York Times 5/2/99 Jeff Gerth James Risen

Early April, 1999

During a subsequent meeting at the White House residence in early April, the president told Richardson to "get to the bottom of it.(Wen Ho Lee's Computer Transfers) New York Times, JAMES RISEN and JEFF GERTH, 04/28/99

April 4, 1999

The Los Angeles Times... "The chief of China's military intelligence secretly directed funds from Beijing to help re-elect President Clinton in 1996, former Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung has told federal investigators." Reporters William Rempel, Henry Weinstein, and Alan Miller reported: "Chung says he met three times with the intelligence official, Gen. Ji Shengde, who ordered $300,000 deposited into the Torrance businessman's bank account to subsidize campaign donations intended for Clinton."...The Times also revealed the FBI monitored groups of Chinese visitors in California regarded as a possible hit squad: "more than 40 agents were assigned to guard Chung, his wife and three children for three weeks." Network coverage? Nothing on any Big Three morning or evening show. None of these details, or the subsequent press conference and state dinner with Chinese premier Zhu Rongji later in the week spurred interest. ABC's Sam Donaldson got closest to touching the revelations five days late, reporting without even a raised eyebrow that Zhu "said he had no knowledge that the Chinese government had contributed money to Mr. Clinton's 1996 campaign." - Media Research Center 4/26/99 Tim Graham

April 7-8, 1999

FBI staff informally raised question of seeking FISA warrant with OIPR staff. FBI drafted, but did not transmit formal request to OIPR. – Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

April 8, 1999

New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and James Risen began: "In early 1996, the United States received a startling report from one of its Chinese spies. Officials inside China's intelligence service, the spy said, were boasting that they had just stolen secrets from the United States and had used them to improve Beijing's neutron bomb, according to American officials." After repeated administration claims that all nuclear-weapons espionage happened in the mid-80s, the Times found espionage happening in 1995. Network coverage? In a press conference that day with visiting Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, both the AP and Reuters reporters on hand asked about the Times charges. Still, the CBS Evening News ignored the story, except for one vague reference by Bill Plante: "Did China steal U.S. nuclear technology? Zhu Rongji said he didn't know a thing about it." ABC and NBC covered the subject, though NBC did not give credit to the newspaper and concluded by stressing the White House spin that "there's no evidence China's neutron bomb was improved - as a result." The next morning, CBS's This Morning ignored it. ABC's Good Morning America gave the Times story two updates totaling 30 seconds, and NBC's Today awarded one 38-second brief. But NBC spent two minutes and 43 seconds on beavers gnawing down cherry trees on Washington's Tidal Basin. - Media Research Center 4/26/99 Tim Graham

April 9, 1999

FBI obtained criminal warrant to search Lee's house. Search conducted next day– Thompson/Lieberman Report 8/99

April 10, 1999

Wen Ho Lee's house is searched for the first time by the FBI New York Times, JAMES RISEN and JEFF GERTH, 04/28/99

April 15, 1999

John Huang is deposed by Judical Watch. He asserts the 5th admendment to almost every question Judicial Watch, 04/15/99

April 19, 1999

Assistant Secretary of Energy Rose Gottemoeller informed [DOE Whistleblower] McCallum that he had been placed on administrative leave without pay, and was under investigation for having released classified information in telephone conversations that were taped by Mark Graf three years earlier, and which (without his knowledge or consent) recently appeared on an Internet website. - The American Spectator 6/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman

April 28, 1999

The New York Times reported "A scientist suspected of spying for China improperly transferred huge amounts of secret data from a computer system at a government laboratory, compromising virtually every nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal, government and lab officials say." Network coverage? ABC's World News Tonight aired a full story. CBS Evening News mentioned it before its own exclusive report on nuclear lab security. CNN's The World Today aired two reports. But NBC aired nothing. ..." - Media Reality Check 5/6/99 Vol. 3, No. 17 Tim Graham

April 29, 1999

In response to the Times, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson gave an interview to The Washington Post admitting "a serious security breach that is unconscionable." The front-page Post article reported that Richardson signaled the possibility that Lee "may have made available to China far more sensitive information than previously imagined," including during the Clinton years. Network coverage? Nothing. - Media Reality Check 5/6/99 Vol. 3, No. 17 Tim Graham

April 30, 1999

The Washington Post front page reported that Congress "erupted" with criticism against the FBI and the Justice Department. "After grilling FBI Director Louis J. Freeh for nearly three hours in a closed-door hearing, members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from both parties appeared equally outraged at what they depicted as lax handling of past and present investigations into suspected leaks of classified data. Their concern was aroused in particular by Freeh's testimony that the suspect, Wen Ho Lee, had been cited for suspicious actions going back almost 20 years." Network coverage? Only CNN aired a story on the hearing. - Media Reality Check 5/6/99 Vol. 3, No. 17 Tim Graham

May 2, 1999

The New York Times added new details about when the Clinton team learned about espionage: "A secret report to top Clinton administration officials last November warned that China posed an 'acute intelligence threat' to the government's nuclear weapons laboratories and that computer systems at the labs were being constantly penetrated by outsiders." Network coverage? Only ABC noted it, for 40 seconds. - Media Reality Check 5/6/99 Vol. 3, No. 17 Tim Graham

May 5, 1999

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard from nuclear lab directors and probed delays in warrants for Wen Ho Lee. Officials admitted Lee's security file was lost at one point. Network coverage? Only ABC aired a story. Bob Woodruff simply relayed the Justice Department's claim that it twice turned down warrant requests "because the evidence against Lee was insufficient." - Media Reality Check 5/6/99 Vol. 3, No. 17 Tim Graham

May 10, 1999

A Chinese Long March 4B rocket successfully launched two civilian satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China early this morning, the Xinhua news agency reported. The two spacecraft are the Fengyun 1C meteorological satellite and the Shi Jian 5 satellite for scientific experiments. - UTC Kriten Rountree

May 11, 1999

China and Russia - Jiang and Chernomyrdin (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

May 19, 1999

China and Thailand (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

May 24, 1999

China and Russia - Chi Haotain (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

May 25, 1999

China and Pakistan - Fu Quanyou and Pervez Musharaf

China and Kygyzstan (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

May 27, 1999

China and Belarus (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

The South China Morning Post reported that the People's Liberation Navy (PLN) had begun preparations to test the Great Wave 2 (JL-2). PLN officials reported that the JL-2 is scheduled to be deployed on the nuclear submarine Xia by 2000. The sub-launched missile is slated to carry a single 2.5-Megaton, thermonuclear warhead, or three 90-Kiloton warheads. WorldNetDaily 6/1/99 Charles Smith

 

May 28, 1999

China and Russia - Xiong Guangkai and Valdimirovich Corabelinykov (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

May 31, 1999

China and Malaysia - Tang Jiaxuan and Syed Hamid

China and Russia - Zhang Wannian, Fu Quanyou, and Valiedin Korapierinkof (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

June 3, 1999

China and Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and South Africa, - Quian Qichen

China and North Korea - Li Peng and Kim Yong Nam (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

June 4, 1999

China and Yemen - Li Peng and Hussain Al-Ahmar (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

June 7, 1999

China and Russia - Zhang Wannian, Xiong Guangkai and Igor Sergeyev

China and Burma - Luo Gan and Khin Nyunt (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

June 9, 1999

China and Laos - Zhu Rongji, Chi Haotian and Choumali Saignakon (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

 

June 11, 1999

China and Pakistan - Tang Jiaxuan and Sartaj Aziz (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly

June 12-13, 1999

A senior U.S. intelligence official told TAS that the U.S. had detected a Chinese nuclear test over the weekend of June 12-13, which may have been designed to validate a newly-designed neutron bomb. No mainstream media has reported the test, which was briefly mentioned in Bill Gertz's "Inside the Ring" column in the June 18 edition of the Washington Times - The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman

June 14, 1999

China and India - Tang Jiaxuan and Jaswant Singh (Chinese Diplomatic Activity Since the Embassy Bombing) Xinhua 6/10/99 Edited by Jolly