A Sweeping History of Spying
The main stumbling blocks to releasing the report, Cox said, had been agreeing with intelligence agencies on what sensitive material should be redacted from the report. When asked when the report would be made public, Cox held his thumb and index finger an inch apart, saying “We are this close.”
     Cox said he did not believe that the current tensions with China, following the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, should prevent Congress from releasing the report.
     “Facts are not inflammatory, facts are facts,” he said. 
     Officials who have seen the Cox report say it provides a sweeping history of China’s efforts to obtain classified U.S. technology from the late 1970s through the 1990s.
     “The headline will be that the extent of Chinese nuclear theft is much broader than has been previously revealed,” said one official, who like others demanded anonymity. “The report asserts that the Chinese have acquired sensitive design information on virtually the entire current U.S. nuclear arsenal.”
     While much of China’s gains of U.S. nuclear secrets were in the 1980s when Republicans controlled the White House, the report cites evidence that Beijing gained U.S. neutron bomb technology as early as the 1970s and continued aggressive spying throughout this decade.
     President Clinton has acknowledged that security at the Energy Department nuclear weapons labs remained lax well into his watch. He began ordering extensive steps to improve security last year. 

Stolen Secrets
According to the officials, the Cox