My country has accused me---Li Wenhe's self-statement

Author: [USA] Li Wenhe and [USA] Xie Hanlan Qi Aihong
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: A common young man born in Taiwan, striving for his American dream, finally becomes a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Everything seemed so peaceful, until overnight, he became the enemy of the entire U.S. government and almost the entire United States: Did he sell America's nuclear secrets to China? Would these secrets place the entire United States under nuclear threat? Guilty or innocent? Would he face the death penalty? Does racial discrimination exist in the United States? Why did the judge take unprecedented measures in court to publicly apologize to Li Wenhe? This is the true story of Li Wenhe, a Chinese-American scientist. From his personal struggles, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1972, to his successes in career and family; from holding a Q-level security clearance from the U.S. government and being a respected nuclear scientist, to becoming a prisoner of the government; from the unfair treatment he endured in prison to the final apology from the judge in court. The upcoming Chinese-language exclusive rights edition of "My Country Accuses Me—Li Wenhe's Autobiography," to be published by Yilin Press, truthfully records the entire case of Li Wenhe, revealing the U.S. judicial and law enforcement systems, human rights environment, and the prejudices of minorities in the United States toward Chinese and other minority ethnic groups, as well as the biases of some Americans toward China. Dr. Li Wenhe, a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, was originally an ordinary U.S. citizen, a "bench scientist" who kept a low profile, yet suddenly found his name and photo on the front pages of newspapers across the country, becoming a "world spy." The profound political reasons behind the so-called "Li Wenhe spy case" are: U.S. authorities discovered that China had successfully miniaturized nuclear warheads and suspected that China had stolen U.S. nuclear secrets, leading them to start investigating the alleged leak based on circumstantial evidence. Without Li Wenhe's knowledge, the FBI had been listing him as a suspect. Li Wenhe was dismissed from the laboratory, his family lived in fear, his friends were implicated, and his prison life was perilous. His life thus descended into darkness.