![]() Chapter Two addresses the 18-year period during which Smith operated Leung and is divided into four time periods. Chapter One provides the backgrounds of Smith and Leung and an introduction regarding the FBI's Chinese Counterintelligence Program. The full report is divided into four chapters. The 235-page report has been classified by the FBI at the Secret level because, according to the FBI, it contains sensitive classified information regarding intelligence sources and methods. We provided copies of the report to the FBI for its comments concerning factual accuracy and classification. The team also interviewed Smith and Cleveland extensively. In addition, we interviewed DOJ and Intelligence Community personnel who had involvement with Smith, Leung, or the investigations of them. ![]() We interviewed much of the hierarchy of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. The team interviewed Smith's former colleagues and supervisors at the FBI. We conducted more than 100 interviews in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Northern Virginia, Southern Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The OIG reviewed and analyzed more than 300,000 pages of material from the FBI and other Intelligence Community agencies. This report describes the OIG's investigation and provides recommendations designed to address the flaws we identified, including the FBI's failure to consistently document concerns about Leung, its failure to follow up when concerns arose, and its willingness to exempt Smith from the rules governing asset handling. The OIG's investigation revealed that the FBI did little or nothing to resolve the numerous counterintelligence concerns that arose during Smith's handling of Leung. FBI Director Robert Mueller asked the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to review the FBI's handling of Leung and the performance and management issues relating to her case, and to recommend changes to improve FBI procedures and practices where necessary. In April 2003, Smith and Leung were arrested. During the 18 years Leung was an asset, the FBI paid her over $1.7 million in services and expenses. government information to the PRC without FBI authorization. The FBI's investigation further established that over the years, FBI officials had learned of several incidents indicating that Leung had provided classified U.S. The investigation also revealed that Leung had been involved in a sporadic affair with William Cleveland, another highly regarded FBI Special Agent, who retired from the FBI in 1993. Smith, who retired from the FBI in November 2000. 1 A year later, the FBI began an investigation that led to the discovery that Leung had been involved in an intimate romantic relationship with her handler of 18 years, Special Agent James J. In May 2000, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received credible information that Katrina Leung, one of the FBI's most highly paid assets, was actively spying for the People's Republic of China (PRC) against the United States.
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