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Eventually Leung and Smith, both married, began a 20 year sexual affair. Leung had access to classified FBI documents Smith would bring to their trysts, and in early 2003 was arrested and charged with working as a double agent for the People's Republic of China government. FBI officials say they will have to re-evualate a decade's worth of counter-intelligence work as a result of the charges against her. Smith has been arrested and charged with gross negligence. Leung also had an affair with William Cleveland Jr., a former FBI agent and chief of counter-intelligence at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Since her arrest, Leung's family has maintained her innocence, and in a press statement compared her plight to nuclear physicist Wen Ho LeeWen Ho Lee (born 1939) is a Chinese American scientist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and was falsely accused of stealing secrets about the design and construction of the U. s nuclear arsenal after the U. discovered that the People's Republi, who after being accused of nuclear espionage, was eventually acquitted of all major charges.