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"The
Russian missiles we could have stopped,"
testimony before the House International Relations Committee on
the responsibility of Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Strobe Talbott
for Iran's Shahab-3 missiles, Oct. 6, 1999

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The China Series
from The American Spectator magazine
Shoot
the Messengers, December 1999/January 2000. When the
Clinton administration finds embarassing intellingence on China's
military modernization, it knows what to do.
Partners
in Crime, August 1999. New evidence shows the link
that Republicans and Democrats have long ignored between reckless
transfers of defense technology to Communist China and campaign
donations to Clinton-Gore.
Red Star Over
Washington, May 1999. The theft of America's most advanced
nuclear warhead design by Chinese spies operating within our nuclear
weapons labs is only the tip of the iceburg. China is now using some
10,000 "illegals" to collect intelligence in the United States, and
according to a confidential Pentagon assessment, has been able to
build an entire encrypted military communications network, thanks to
assistance from the Clinton Pentagon.
Florida
Splendid China, March 1999. When you're at Disney, stop by at
this propaganda theme park, owned and controlled by the State Council
of the People's Republic of China .
The
DNC's Chinese Money Laundry, November 1998. John Huang
was a Chinese government spy collecting U.S. intelligence secrets,
according to two former Congressional aides deeply involved in the
campaign finance investigations.
"California
Takeout," October 1998. Inside the U.S.-based
procurement and espionage network of China's largest state-owned
aerospace company, CATIC.
"Loral Exams," July 1998. An exposé of how
the Commerce Department and NSC staffers helped Loral, Hughes and
Motorola get satellite exports to China approved, and the impact on
U.S. national security of those exports.
"China's 22nd Province," October 1997. An investigation into
PLA companies operating in California, F-14 part smuggling rings
aimed at exporting military equipment to Iran, and the CATIC
corporate network.
"Where has all the money gone," August 1997. An analysis
of campaign contributions the DNC from Chinese entities and
operatives.
"While America Sleeps," June 1997. The first comprehensive
look at the "China plan" to infiltrate the political, military, and
security apparatus of the United States, as well as Chinese efforts
to penetrate the U.S. economy.
"All Roads Lead to China," March 1997, an investigation
into John Huang and Lippo ties to the People's Liberation Army, and
Ira Magaziner's secret plan to release U.S. nuclear technology for
sale to China.
"Peking
Pentagon. Bill Perry: Too Tight with the Enemy?" April 1996,
an investigation into the ties between the U.S. defense secretary and
a PLA high-tech procurement front, Hua Mei, seeking encryption
technology from the U.S.
"China Shops," March 1995. Initially conducted for Time
Magazine, this investigation into U.S. high-tech sales to China
(McDonnell Douglas, Garrett engine, Yuchai America) was so hot that
the Clinton administration intervened with Time editors to kill the
story and fire the reporter.

Other articles
- Vote
'Nay' on China Trade, Baltimore Sun, May 17, 2000. Alternate
link
"Throwing
Sops to the Mullahs: Clinton administration misses the mark on
Iran," The Forward, April 14,
2000 [Off-site]
- U.S.
Corporations Turn China into Threat,
Insight Magazine investigation of China's latest ICBM, made in the
USA; Dec. 20., 1999 [Off-site]
- Greek Defense Minister denies Iran Pact, The Iran Brief
(available through the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs website), Oct. 4,
1999
- "INS
Abuse," The American-Spectator, July-August 2000
- The Nuke Next Door, The American Spectator, October, 1999
- Russo-American
Nuclear Cities, The American Spectator, July 1999. The
Clinton administration wants to spend $600 million of taxpayer
money to keep Russian nuclear scientists in secret military cities
off-limits to U.S. observers, producing new weapons.
- Dumbing
Down Missile Defense, The American Spectator, January
1999
- "Destroy
His Weapons, Then Oust Saddam," Boston Globe, Nov. 14,
1998.
- "The
Long Beach Missile Transfers, "The American Spectator,
September 1998
- "Strobe
Talbott: Russia's Man in Washington," The American
Spectator, April 1998
- "Rudderless
in the Gulf (Excerpt)," The American Spectator,
February 1998
- "Torricelli's
Terrorist List Friends (Excerpt)",The American
Spectator, January 1998
- "Al
Gore's Arab Money Man," The American Spectator,
November 1997
- "Who
is Roger Tamraz?" (with James Ring Adams), The American
Spectator, May 1997
- "The
Murky Depths of Anthony Lake (Excerpt),"The American
Spectator, April 1997
- "Islamic
Iran's American Base", The American Spectator,
December, 1995

Reader's Digest

Wall Street Journal
April
13, 2000: Close
the World Bank and the IMF
- Aug. 5, 1999:
Iran's mullahs hit back: how President Khatami betrayed
the Iranian people by cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators
in Tehran.
- May 20, 1999: Is
Iran-Saudi Détente Underway?
- Dec. 11, 1998:
A Dangerous Season in Iran. U.S. businessmen are attacked in
Tehran as they wade into Iran's increasingly deadly factional
battles.
- Nov. 3, 1998: Saddam's
Deadly Timetable. Throwing out the UN inspectors in Iraq is
Day One of Saddam's weapons deployment schedule.
- August 11, 1998: A
Meek Response Invites Terror. Iranian defectors claim that the
Islamic Republic has used non-Iranians, including former Saudi
financier Osama bin Ladin, to carry out terrorist attacks.
- Dec. 9, 1997: Iran's
Sparring Ayatollahs, on the recent attacks on and arrest of
Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, and the growing opposition to the
regime from the traditional clergy.
- July 28, 1997:
"Writer's fate tests Iran and Europe," on the jailing of
Iranian writer Faraj Sarkuhi and Khatemi's responsibility for his
fate
- May 27, 1997: "Iran's
Vote: A Good Start, Nothing More."
- April 10, 1997: "EU
braces for Iranian terror."
- January 3, 1997, "How
to Respond to the Dhahran Bombing"
- November 27, 1996, "Denmark
Takes the Lead on Iran"
- August 8, 1996 "Europe
should join the fight against terrorism"
- June 10, 1996 , "Time
to End 'Critical Dialogue' with Iran",
- April 24, 1996, "Turkey's
Secular Model"

Washington Times
Jan.
19, 2001: "National
Security Roulette." Last-minute rules allowing the export of
nuclear-weapons design computers to Russia and China threatens
America's future.
Dec.
22, 2000: "Three targets
for an activist foreign policy."
President-elect Bush can promote freedom and the rule of law
in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nov.
6, 2000 (Insight Magazine):
"Has Clinton's China policy put U.S. national security at
risk?"
- Oct. 15, 2000:
"Wobbly policies invite Terror." Clinton-Gore appeasement
of terrorists and their state-sponsors invited an act of war.
- June 30, 2000: "Tracking
Gore's Temple Woes" (Al Gore,
Maria Hsia, and the Buddhist Temple fund-raiser)
- May 24, 2000:
"Chinese
missiles in the new world order,"
Washington
Times,
- Feb. 24, 2000: Casualties of
the China Connection. The Alaska Airliner that went down of
the California coast could become a powerful symbol for all that
has gone wrong with Bill Clinton's failed China policy.
- Nov. 11,1999: Conditional
funding for Wye?. Arafat's corruption
sheds serious doubts on U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority.
[Off-site]
- June 11, 1999: "Rescuing
National Security." Three proposals to restore strategic
export controls. Washington Times.
- May 5, 1999: "Trumped
by Iran's New Missile.
- April 18, 1999: "The Selling of Our Secrets,"
Washington Times article on former
Defense Secretary William Perry and his dubious ties to the
Chinese communist government.
- August 13,
1998: "The Wrong Man at Radio Free Iran"
- June 22,
1998. "No time to play nice with Iran,"
- May
22, 1998 , Mujahedin's ties to Saddam Hussein
- March 24,
1997, "Chinese spy openly at weapons fair," report from 'IDEX
97' in Abu Dhabi. [75K GIF file]
- June 24,
1996:
"Clinton offers Iran a 'frank dialogue.'" [84K GIF
file]

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Congressional Testimony
- "The
Russian missiles we could have stopped,"
testimony before the House International Relations Committee
on the responsibility of Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Strobe
Talbott for Iran's Shahab-3 missiles. For more information,
see
the Committee Hearing page, and Mr.
Gilman's opening statement.
- Change in
Iran and Challenges for U.S. policy makers, a presentation at
the Library of Congress, January 8, 1999.
- Rogue
States and Ballistic Missiles: Lessons and Prospects. Paper
presented before the Commission To Assess the Ballistic Missile
Threat to the United States (the "Rumsfeld Commission"), April
1998
- March 16,
1995: Senate Banking Committee testimony on the Iran trade
embargo, "Conoco deal would fund nuclear weapons and
terrorism."
- Feb. 27,
1996: Senate banking subcommittee testimony, "Iran and the
Supernotes"
- June 29,
1993, "Iraq Rebuilds its Military Industries," out-of-print
Staff Report to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Iraq's
early efforts to frustrate UN inspection efforts.
- Oct. 27,
1992 testimomy before the Senate Banking Committee, "U.S. Export
Policy Toward Iraq: An Agenda for Tomorrow.

Scholary Articles & Monographs
Fighting
Proliferation Through Democracy: A Competitive Strategies Approach
Toward Iran. From Prevailing in a Well-Armed World:
Devising Competitive Strategies Against Weapons Proliferation,
Henry Sokolski (editor), U.S. Army War College - Strategic
Studies Institute, Carlisle, Pa, March 2000. Versions of this
article were presented in seminar format at the U.S. Army War
College, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nonproliferation
Policy Education Center Faculty Seminar on Teaching Strategic
Weapons Proliferation Issues, the Institute of World Politics, the
National Committee on Foreign Policy, and the United States
Information Agency between 1997 and 1999.
- "Unlimited
Offense: Iran's Response to the Missile Threat," paper
presented at Military Strategy in the Age of Ballistic Missiles,
Washington, DC, Feb. 23, 1999
"Export
of the Revolution," paper presented at IRAN '98, April 30,
1998, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC.
- "Support
Democracy and Change in Iran" paper presented by Kenneth
R.Timmerman at"Iran in Transition," a 2-day seminar
organized by the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at
Southern Methodist University and Petro-Hunt Corporation, Dallas,
Texas, May 2, 1996 .
- "Iran's
Nuclear Program: Myth and Reality," paper presented before the
Sixth International Castiglioncello Conference, Fifty Years After
Hiroshima, Castiglioncello, Italy, September 30, 1995, sponsored
by the Italian Union of Scientists for Disarmament (USPID)
"Opportunities
for Change in Iran," A Nonproliferation Policy Forum Paper
initially presented before the Honorable John McCain, U.S. Senator
(AZ) and the Honorable Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator (CA), May 1,
1995, U.S. Capitol, Room SC-5. Subsequently reprinted in Fighting
Proliferation: New Concerns for the Nineties, Henry Sokolski
(editor), Air Force University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama, Sept. 1996. (For an RTF
version with active footnotes, click here).
- In Their Own Words: Interviews with Leaders of Hamas,
Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood, Damascus, Amman,
Gaza, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, November
1994;
- Weapons of Mass Destruction: the Cases of Iran, Syria, and
Libya,Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Anbgeles, Aug. 1992;
- The Poison Gas Connection, (Chemical weapons suppliers
to Iraq & Libya) Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, Oct.,
1990.