Susan Chira, the Times' foreign editor, said the newspaper did not give the
Communist government a copy of the memo, which was stored in a file cabinet
in the Times Beijing bureau. Asked to comment on the possibility that state
security agents searched the office and photocopied it, she replied: "If
that were true, we'd be upset. . . . We really don't know what happened.
Obviously, they got hold of it."
....
The Chinese National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets, the
agency responsible for classifying information in China, has already
certified the memo as "top secret".
....
People familiar with the probe said state security agents obtained a copy of
Zhao's memo in the nine days after the publication of the Times report...
Joseph Kahn, the Beijing bureau chief of the Times, said he had no reason to
believe any Times employees helped the agents, noting that he and Zhao were
the only people in the office who knew the memo existed.
....
A Communist party official who spoke on condition of anonymity said state
security agents were under pressure to identify the source of the Times
report...

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