Espionage: A Spy's Grisly Solution

His meek appearance masked the fact that Larry Wu-Tai Chin was a master of deception. For nearly 30 years, Chin, 63, a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Peking, lived a double life. While working as a highly valued translator and analyst for the CIA, he also passed classified documents to the People's Republic of China. His duplicity earned him at least $300,000, and though he gambled much of it away, he had parlayed his take into real estate and other investments worth $700,000. Throughout his four-day trial, Chin insisted that he had only intended to improve relations between...