Cox report on Chinese spy activities and Beowulf

[Adrian Durand]

On Fri, 28 May 1999, boyd_e wrote:

> May 27 (EIRNS)--GORE, INC. RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COX COMMITTEE
> HOAX, TARGETING PRESIDENT CLINTON'S CHINA ``STRATEGIC
> PARTNERSHIP.''  Rep. Norman Dicks (D-Wash.), a 17-year intimate
> ally of Vice President Al Gore, was, according to public
> accounts, the pivotal player in fostering the phony Cox Committee
> report on alleged Chinese nuclear espionage.  At Tuesday's press

>slug) for salvaging the committee's work.  In October of 1998,
>the Cox committee was at a dead end.  Its investigation into
>damage to U.S. national security through leaks of advanced
>missile technology to Beijing by the Loral and Hughes
>corporations had produced no startling evidence; and the effort
>to show that China had influenced the 1996 Presidential elections
>through large covert donations to the Clinton-Gore campaign had
>also run aground.  At that point, Dicks and other committee
>members were told that, in 1995, a ``walk-in'' had informed the
>CIA that China had obtained drawings and other information on the
>W-88 miniaturized warhead.

<snip>

> committee bruhaha is most significant.  Dicks is a cornerstone of
> the Gore, Inc. apparatus on Capitol Hill.  First elected to
> Congress in 1976, Dicks hooked up with then Rep. Al Gore and his
> national security aide Leon Fuerth in 1982, around the ABM
> Treaty.  They later collaborated on the MX-missile.  Today, Dicks
> is Gore's House whip, and is the chairman of the Washington State
> Gore for President campaign.  He is also a director of the Henry
> Jackson Foundation, named after the late U.S. Senator who was a
> mainstay of the neo-conservative apparatus, and the mentor of X
> Committee spy Richard Perle. [js_]
> 
> May 27 (EIRNS)--THE ROLE OF WASHINGTON STATE CONGRESSMAN AND GORE
> CAMPAIGN ACTIVIST NORM DICKS IN THE COX COMMISSION PRESENTED AT
> PRESS CONFERENCE. At the press conference to release the Cox

<snip>

>         In October, Cox and Dicks were briefed on information
> provided by a "PRC walk-in" to the CIA in 1995, alleging that the
> Chinese had acquired the design for the W-88 warhead. Berger,
> Clinton, and many others had long ago been briefed on the
> allegations of the walk-in. President Clinton had signed an order
> for new security guidelines at the national laboratories in Feb.
> 1998, before the existence of the Cox Commission. "When I saw the


> Zeke Boyd
> 21 Century Science & Technology
> boyd_e@medisoft.net
> ____________________________________________________________________________

I'm sorry but this doesn't seem to add up.  If Dicks was chummy with Gore
then why work so hard to come up with ammo for the Cox Committee?  I would
think that instead he would want to torpedo the efforts of the committee.
If anything this report (when read by a less qualified audience) would
jump to the conclusion that the Clinton (and thereby Gore) administration
was in bed with the PRC.  

It is confusing, what the motivation of Dicks would be.  Was he trying to
paint Clinton as the one resopnsible?  Gore benifitted from the campaign
donations as well.  Who was to recieve the blame for this "fiasco"?  I
would think that considering the nature of politics and the back-stabbing
that goes on in that field that Dicks was serving some other purpose.  

All in all this seems like more fule for the Republicans to use to
embarras the President and the Democrats.  A handy thing so close to
elections.  Of course this could all backfire when you compare the results
of annother 4 year "investigation" that was convieniently redirected to
areas that could prove more fruitfull...

Thats my oppinion, but I could have it wrong.

Adrian Durand
dis-illusioned student
U of Minn