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Report: FBI blew many chances to identify spy.
Agency failed to see that suspected Chinese spy 'was in bed with' bureau.
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:50 a.m. ET May 24, 2006
WASHINGTON - The FBI missed many opportunities to identify a suspected Chinese spy and her FBI lover, including a tip that she "was in bed with" the bureau's Los Angeles office, a Justice Department internal review said Wednesday.
Katrina Leung, a Chinese-American paid informant for the FBI, and her handler, former counterintelligence agent James J. Smith, were able to deceive the FBI about their romantic relationship for nearly 20 years, Justice Department inspector general Glenn A. Fine said. In all, the FBI paid Leung $1.7 million over 18 years, Fine said.
