CBS Evening News - 1999-03-08 (bad video)

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[0:01] Every woman owes it to herself to find

[0:03] out there

[0:07] is a suspected Chinese nuclear spy is

[0:11] named in the handing over a top US to

[0:15] communist China's military. An American

[0:18] underground of violence and hate winds

[0:20] up in court with a white supremacist on

[0:22] trial for murder. The president visits

[0:25] Central America's hurricane disaster

[0:27] zone tonight. Why US disaster relief is

[0:31] not getting where it's

[0:39] needed. Good evening. There is

[0:41] fast-breaking information obtained by

[0:43] CBS News Tonight about stolen US nuclear

[0:46] weapons secrets going to the communist

[0:48] Chinese military. The serious and

[0:51] apparently longstanding breach involves

[0:54] many atomic warheads of mass

[0:56] destruction. CBS's Cheryl Atkinson

[0:58] helped break this story last Friday.

[1:00] Tonight, she has the latest, including

[1:02] the name of a US nuclear scientist who

[1:04] is under suspicion. Cheryl, Dan, the

[1:07] suspected spy is a Chinese American

[1:09] scientist named Wan Ho Lee, who until

[1:12] today worked at the nation's top secret

[1:15] nuclear weapons lab in Los Alamos, New

[1:17] Mexico.

[1:19] We dismissed an employee who was

[1:22] not following proper security procedures

[1:25] at the lab who was under suspicion for

[1:29] security breaches. Alleged breaches like

[1:32] disclosing sensitive information at a

[1:34] seminar attended by Chinese nationals

[1:37] and failing to report it. In fact,

[1:39] investigators say Lee may have helped

[1:41] China steal vital nuclear weapons

[1:44] secrets, including design plans for

[1:46] America's sophisticated nuclear warhead,

[1:48] the W88. The case has been unfolding for

[1:52] years. The original theft of the W88

[1:55] information dates all the

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