June 11, 1999

Congressional Panel Seeks to Curb Access of Foreign Students to U.S. Supercomputers

By VINCENT KIERNAN

University officials say lawmakers' plan could stymie unclassified research

Chinese spies who enrolled as students at American colleges may have gained access to the supercomputers that are used to design U.S. nuclear weapons, according to a report by a House of Representatives committee on Chinese espionage. The committee recommended that students who are not U.S. citizens be barred from using the computers

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