Cox Report

The Cox Report is a classified U.S. government document reporting on Chinese covert operations in the United States, focusing on Chinese spies' theft of design information on the U.S.'s most advanced thermonuclear weapons. A declassified version of the report may be found at http://www.house.gov/coxreport/cont/gncont.html .

The report's basic findings were as follows, quoted from the above document's opening summary:

"Overview Important Note: This declassified report summarizes many important findings and judgments contained in the Select Committee's classified Report, issued January 3, 1999. U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies within the Clinton administration have determined that other significant findings and judgments contained in the Select Committee's classified Report cannot be publicly disclosed without affecting national security or ongoing criminal investigations.

1. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has stolen design information on the United States' most advanced thermonuclear weapons.

The Select Committee judges that the PRC's next generation of thermonuclear weapons, currently under development, will exploit elements of stolen U.S. design information.

PRC penetration of our national weapons laboratories spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."