41.   He was identified by Federal officials as the chief suspect in the theft of the nuclear secrets.

42.   Higginbotham said there were perjuries that cause harm to the country, for example, if the president had lied about selling nuclear secrets to a foreign agent.

43.   He was firmly opposed to China stealing American nuclear secrets.

44.   His lawyers threatened to force prosecutors to reveal nuclear secrets in court.

45.   Hideaway records are maintained by the Senate Rules Committee with the type of discretion the Central Intelligence Agency is expected to use with nuclear secrets.

46.   Hwang said it also reflects political scapegoating tied to the case of scientist Wen Ho Lee, who was accused of providing nuclear secrets to China.

47.   In fact, inference and hypothesizing are the only grounds for believing that Beijing obtained US nuclear secrets by means of espionage.

48.   In a television interview last Sunday, Lee categorically denied providing nuclear secrets to China or anyone else.

49.   Indeed, the existence of this shadowy black market for nuclear secrets is one plausible reason advanced for the central enigma identified by the Cox Report on weapons spying.

50.   Indignation about the theft of nuclear secrets is widespread and might provide such support.