Plea Deal Is Accepted In Spy Case

By Linda Deutsch
Associated Press
Sunday, December 18, 2005; Page A06

LOS ANGELES -- The government ended its crippled case against a woman once accused of being a Chinese double agent, accepting her guilty pleas to lesser charges of making a false statement to the FBI and filing a false tax return.

Katrina Leung, 51, admitted Friday she lied to the FBI about her intimate relationship with her FBI handler, James J. Smith, and that she failed to include all her income on her tax returns for the year 2000.