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Helen Zia
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Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People and a finalist for the prestigious 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. She is also co-author, with Wen Ho Lee, of My Country Versus Me,
which reveals what happened to the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely
accused of being a spy for China in the “worst case since the
Rosenbergs.”
Zia has been a magazine writer, editor, and
investigative reporter for more than 20 years, and is a Contributing Editor to Ms. She is an Expert Fellow with University of Southern California’s
Justice and Journalism program of the Annenberg School of Journalism
and was designated as Writer-In-Residence at New York University in
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Selected Readings
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From My Country Versus Me (by Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia):
I’d heard of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the couple who were put to
death for giving secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviet Union in the
1950s during the McCarthy era. That happened before I came to America.
I didn’t know of this Aldrich Ames, but I found out soon enough that he
worked at the CIA and for 10 years sold secrets about America’s spy
apparatus to the Russians; his treachery led to the deaths of many CIA
and FBI sources. Now the New York Times was painting me as worse than
the Rosenbergs and Ames.
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From the AmerAsia Journal: Each
day after September 11 has brought on some new uncertainty—and some new
erosion of the principles that have made our country great. Yesterday
it was the argument of Peggy Noonan, a Wall Street Journal columnist
who claimed that we must all “accept the necessity of racial
profiling.” She said that all Americans have to sacrifice some of our
liberties in this post-September 11 world. If it turned out that blond
women in blue jeans like her were profiled as terrorists, she said, she
wouldn’t like it but she would “suck it up” and accept it. I said to
myself, yes, so generously said by someone who doesn’t truly expect
such a request to be asked of her. |
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