Review of the FBI's Progress in Responding to the Recommendations in the Office of the Inspector General Report on Executive Summary: Handling and Oversight of Katrina Leung.

摘要

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has completed a follow-up review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) progress in implementing the recommendations contained in the OIG's May 2006 report, A Review of the FBI's Handling and Oversight of FBI Asset Katrina Leung. The May 2006 report described the FBI's handling and oversight of Katrina Leung, one of the FBI's highest paid counterintelligence assets who allegedly also worked for the People's Republic of China. Leung had a longtime intimate relationship with her FBI handler, Special Agent James J. Smith. The OIG found that the FBI was aware of serious counterintelligence concerns about Leung, but did little to follow up on the warning signals. The OIG's 2006 report provided 11 recommendations to address systemic issues in the FBI's asset handling and vetting procedures that enabled Smith and Leung to escape detection for more than 20 years. Our recommendations included continuing the FBI's new asset validation review process and devoting sufficient resources to these reviews; creating a new subsection in the asset file for red flags, derogatory reporting, anomalies, and analyses; requiring a more thorough periodic background reinvestigation for long-term assets; requiring alternate case agents to meet with assets on a frequent basis; limiting the time an agent can handle an asset; fully implementing the FBI's policy regarding counterintelligence polygraph examinations; and prohibiting blanket exemptions to the asset handling rules.