Did a Chinese plot persuade Clinton to let a U.S. company give China its rocket science?
If you were a Chinese aerospace kingpin looking for an agent to buy influence at the White House and get American rocket technology into your hands, Johnny Chung would not be your first choice for the job–or your second choice or even your third. Yet Chung, the cartoonish Taiwan-born businessman best known for his role in the 1996 Clinton campaign-finance scandals ($366,000 in suspicious contributions; a plea bargain in which he’s cooperating with investigators), was being described in Washington last week as the pivot man in a “China Plan” to do just that. For an influence peddler, he employed an unlikely m.o.–a garish, glad-handing personality that repelled those he wanted to seduce, from top White House aides to their interns. “Johnny was a hassle,” an intern named Gina Ratliffe told House investigators in a deposition. Chung often showed up at the offices of Hillary Rodham Clinton, where Ratliffe worked in 1995, and whenever he did “people would roll their eyes and say, ‘Oh, John
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