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The Clinton administration, as well as some senators, presented legislation today to make it illegal for American banks to handle the proceeds of official corruption abroad. The proposals were offered […]

The co-chairman of Citigroup testified before a Senate subcommittee today that his bank had been slow to correct years of weak controls over wealthy private accounts, and he lent support […]

In 1997, federal bank examiners were pressing executives at Citibank Private Bank to explain the source of more than $50 million deposited into a secret account controlled by the president […]

A Federal grand jury indicted McDonnell Douglas -- a unit of Boeing, -- and a state-owned aerospace company in China on charges of conspiring to hide important details of a […]

A Federal grand jury indicted the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and a powerful state-owned aerospace company in China today on charges of conspiring to hide important details of a 1994 sale […]

The Government's investigation into how China got American nuclear weapons secrets was plagued by widespread mistakes and misjudgments but there was no political interference, according to the two ranking members […]

Two Congressional investigations, set off from different starting points, are examining Citibank and the confidential world of private banking, a growing and highly lucrative service. The investigations, led by lawmakers […]

President Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, made an unusual appearance this afternoon before a Senate committee to answer questions about how the White House has handled the allegations […]

Senior White House officials were informed that China might have stolen American nuclear secrets nearly a year earlier than the Clinton Administration originally disclosed, according to current and former United […]

The Senate and the Clinton Administration moved closer today to a drastic legislative restructuring of the Energy Department, but in Senate testimony Energy Secretary Bill Richardson continued to resist a […]

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson named a retired four-star general today to be the department's first security czar and announced that all normal operations at three nuclear weapons laboratories will cease […]

In an effort to prevent sensitive technology from being used by the Chinese military, the Commerce Department has told exporters that shipments to six missile and nuclear sites in China […]

In a diplomatically sensitive case, the Justice Department is nearing a decision on whether to indict one of China's most powerful state-owned corporations, law-enforcement officials and lawyers say. Some career […]

A long-awaited Congressional report that describes a pattern of systematic and successful Chinese espionage to learn American nuclear secrets was released today, and President Clinton said he agreed that national […]

The congressional investigation into China's suspected theft of American technology began as a gleam in Newt Gingrich's eye. Today, a year later, it has become the decade's deepest look into […]

The Justice Department has obtained a note from the Little Rock office of Yah Lin Trie, a Democratic fund-raiser, that suggests he was aware of a bribery problem. The note, […]

A House committee has unanimously concluded that China systematically stole significant American nuclear design secrets, enabling Beijing to accelerate its weapons program so that it now possesses thermonuclear weapons design […]

China is close to deploying a nuclear missile with a warhead whose design draws on stolen American secrets, United States intelligence officials say. A long-range Chinese missile, known as the […]

Senators told the top Energy Department lawyer today that they were baffled and appalled at the long delay in authorizing a search of the work computer of a scientist at […]

Late in the spring of 1996, Federal bank examiners discovered that the central bank of China was moving tens of millions of dollars into the United States, depositing it in […]

A scientist working on a classified Pentagon project in 1997 provided China with secrets about advanced radar technology being developed to track submarines, according to court records and government documents. […]

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 […]

A scientist suspected of spying for China tried to hide evidence that he had transferred nuclear secrets out of a computer system at a Government nuclear weapons laboratory two days […]

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 […]

China is likely to use stolen advanced American nuclear weapons secrets to upgrade its weapons within years, not decades, a senior intelligence official said today. So far Beijing has not […]

A comprehensive new analysis by United States intelligence officials has concluded that China stole design information related to America's most advanced nuclear warhead from a Government nuclear weapons laboratory, Government […]

The chairman of the House select committee that found that China had stolen American nuclear weapons secrets said today that the Department of Energy was improperly holding up the release […]

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 […]

In late 1996, months earlier than previously acknowledged, a senior Clinton Administration official ordered that security measures at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories be quickly strengthened, but his orders were […]

The Administration and Congressional Republicans are wrangling over how much information to make public about official findings that China acquired some of the most sensitive American military technology. Last December […]

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, according to Administration officials. […]

Swayed by criticisms that commercial satellite deals with China could threaten national security, the Clinton Administration decided today to reject the sale of a $450 million satellite to a business […]

American jets attacked two Iraqi surface-to-air missile batteries today after encountering antiaircraft fire and MIG jets in the no-flight zone over southern Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said. The official said […]

The State Department told Congress today that the Commerce Department would have a voice but not a vote in approving the export of American-made satellites. The department spelled out the […]

The House of Representatives extended today the life of a special committee examining Chinese acquisition of American technology in order to expedite the release of the committee's report, which is […]

Republican leaders have warned President Clinton not to weaken a new law that makes foreign policy and national security the only basis for approving exports of American satellites. The Clinton […]

A select House committee, in a classified report unusual for its bipartisanship, has found that over the last 20 years China obtained, sometimes through theft, some of the most sensitive […]

Central Intelligence Agency officers in China told headquarters in March 1996 that a consultant who worked for American aerospace companies had made payments to Chinese officials in hopes of getting […]

Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, called on some of Wall Street's leaders in the summer of 1994 with a warning. Congress was asking pointed questions […]

Regulators and lawmakers have been tussling behind the scenes over who, if anyone, might oversee the growing market for derivatives. The fray is expected to continue tomorrow when the Senate […]

A secret Pentagon report concludes that Hughes Space and Communications, without proper authorization, gave China technological insights that are crucial to the successful launchings of satellites and ballistic missiles. According […]

When a Central Intelligence Agency scientist visited the Hughes Electronics Corporation in Los Angeles in 1995 to learn more about China's missile capabilities, he became concerned that the satellite manufacturer […]

Shortly after he took office in 1993, President Clinton traveled to Silicon Valley to lay out his vision of a robust American economy buoyed by high-technology companies that could compete […]

When the Clinton Administration relaxed export controls on high-performance computers in 1996, it relied on a flawed report that did not study the national security implications and concluded with scant […]

The independent counsel's contention that there is 'substantial and credible information' supporting 11 possible grounds for impeaching President Clinton boils down to four charges: perjury, obstruction of justice, witness tampering […]

An I.B.M. subsidiary pleaded guilty today to illegally exporting 17 advanced computers to a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory and agreed to pay an $8.5 million fine in what Federal investigators […]

Soon after Secretary of State Warren Christopher decided in 1995 against relaxing sharp controls on the shipment of American satellites to China, President Clinton's deputy national security adviser began campaigning […]

While the Clinton Administration continues to re-examine whether to allow a $650 million satellite sale to a Chinese-controlled company, the State Department has blocked the son of a Chinese general […]