Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War With China


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“A stunningly detailed history . . . from sexy socialite double agents to ‘kill switches’ implanted offshore in the computer chips for our electric grid”
-R. James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence).

For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s many victories and defeats in its American spy wars.

Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named Parlor Maid, worked for the FBI for years even after she became a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both of her FBI handlers. Here, too, is the inside story of the case, code-named Tiger Trap , of a key Chinese-American scientist suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets.

These two cases led to many others, involving famous names from Wen Ho Lee to Richard Nixon, stunning national security leaks, sophisticated cyberspying, and a West Coast spy ring whose members were sentenced in 2010. As concerns swirl about US-China relations and the challenges faced by our intelligence community, Tiger Trap provides an important overview from “America’s premier writer on espionage”
- The Washington Post Book World


“Wise’s conclusion is sobering—China’s spying on America is ongoing, current, and shows no signs of diminishing—and his book is a fascinating history of Chinese espionage.”

— Publishers Weekly

“A fact-filled inside account, with sources named and no one spared.” —Seymour M. Hersh

From the Inside Flap

Honey traps, double agents, nuclear-weapons secrets, and a future president’s female friend: a revelatory history of Chinese espionage in America

For decades, while the United States obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government—indeed, all along, China arguably has been America’s most formidable spy foe. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s many victories and defeats in its U.S. spy wars.

Among his many revelations:
*How China’s intelligence service penetrated the FBI via Katrina Leung, code name parlor maid, an FBI asset who became a double agent for Beijing and maintained longtime affairs with the Bureau’s top two agents in charge of Chinese counterintelligence, and how the FBI finally, belatedly, broke the case.

*How a task force with the secret code name SEGO PALM, using 300 U.S. agents from 11 agencies, failed to solve the mystery of how China stole the design of America’s most sophisticated nuclear warhead, the W-88, after a “walk-in” revealed the leak.
*The astonishing inside story of how China acquired U.S. secrets of the neutron bomb in the case code-named TIGER TRAP.

*The text of an FBI document citing unconfirmed reports that Richard Nixon in the 1960s was “a regular bedmate” of Marianna Liu, a beautiful Hong Kong bar hostess and suspected Chinese intelligence operative.

*How China’s cyber-spying has penetrated the State Department, the Pentagon, and nuclear weapons labs right up to the present day.

The story will surely continue for years to come, as China faces off against America. Tiger Trap is as urgently essential as it is fascinating.


About the Author
DAVID WISE's bestselling books on espionage and national security include Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America , Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million, and The Invisible Government.

From Publishers Weekly

Wise (Spy) leads readers into the "the wilderness of mirrors that is counterintelligence" for this history of Chinese espionage against the U.S. He reveals how Chinese intelligence has used ethnic Chinese in the U.S. to penetrate American counterintelligence and steal American nuclear weapons data. While Wise explores a spectrum of Chinese spying efforts, from Sun-Tzu's The Art of War to cyberspies, he homes in on two sensational cases, code-named Parlor Maid and Tiger Trap, that epitomize their tactics. Parlor Maid was the colorful Katrina Leung, a Chinese-American double agent who slept with her FBI handlers while stealing their secrets, and Tiger Trap refers to the FBI's operation to expose China's moles inside America's nuclear weapons labs. Wise's conclusion is sobering—"China's spying on America is ongoing, current, and shows no sign of diminishing"—and his book is a fascinating history of Chinese espionage that should appeal to a diverse readership.


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