"Walk-in"

Much is made in the Redacted Report, and in the media of the "official" PRC document classified "Secret" that is supposed to contain "design information on the W-88" and the W-87 as well as five or six other US nuclear weapons. This document was "planted" with the CIA in Taiwan in 1995 by a "Walk-in," which the CIA later learned was controlled by PRC "intelligence services."(Cox Report, p.83)

The planted PRC document was "assessed" in 1995 by a multi-disciplinary group of Experts [including US nuclear weapons scientists] and that assessment was later made available to the Cox Committee in 1998. The assessment has never been made public--nor has the "planted" document--but there have been media reports that there were significant differences of opinion between the Experts and the Security officials [DOE and FBI] as to (1) the validity of the PRC Secret document and (2) the interpretation of the contents, Unfortunately, the Cox Committee accepted the opinion of the gumshoes looking for a hole in the fence rather that Experts' net assessment.