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Was Sniper Spree Elaborate Scheme to Kill Ex-Wife?; Saddam Gets One Last Chance to Disarm or Face War

Aired November 08, 2002 - 20:00   ET

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CONNIE CHUNG, CNN HOST: Good evening. I'm Connie Chung. Tonight, was the sniper spree an elaborate scheme to kill an ex-wife?
ANNOUNCER: Could the sniper killings be the result of a bitter child custody battle? The ex-wife of John Muhammad believes she was the real target.

Plus, this man's stolen laptop computer now linked to another shooting. And it's chilling diary of death.

Decision day at the U.N.

KOFI ANNAN, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: The resolution sets out, in clear terms, Iraq's obligation to cooperate with the United States and ensuring the full and final disarmament of its weapons of mass destruction.

ANNOUNCER: Saddam gets one last chance to disarm or face war.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: His cooperation must be prompt and unconditional or he will face the severest consequences.

ANNOUNCER: The clock is ticking. Can Baghdad meet the deadline?

For 22 years, Robert Hanssen was living a lie. Suburban lifestyle,a wife and six kids, working for the FBI, while spying for the Russians. The inside story: how Robert Hanssen betrayed America.

The butler's bombshell.

PAUL BURRELL, PRINCESS DIANA'S FORMER BUTLER: Family relationships were strained. It was difficult. I think perhaps the family was dysfunctional.

ANNOUNCER: New details on his blistering attack on Princess Diana's family. But the question everyone wants to know: can the butler be believed?

This is CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT. From the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, Connie Chung.

CHUNG: Good evening. Tonight, a new development in the sniper case. The prosecutor in Fairfax County, Virginia says 17-year-old John Lee Malvo's fingerprints were the only prints found on the Bushmaster rifle allegedly used in the shootings that terrorized the Washington D.C. area. Investigators are not saying if that means Malvo was the only shooter.

Meanwhile, the ex-wife of John Muhammad reportedly says she thinks the deadly string of sniper shootings was an elaborate scheme intended to lead up to her murder and make it look as though it was just one in a string of random killings.

We'll meet the reporter who broke this story with an exclusive interview in just a moment.

But first, both suspects appeared in court. Muhammad was told a lawyer will be appointed for him and at John lee Malvo's court appearance, Fairfax County, Virginia prosecutors revealed why they think they have a strong case against him.

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ROBERT HORAN, VA. COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY: There are witnesses who place him in the vicinity of both the Massaponax shooting, the Manassas shooting and we have a witness who places him in the vicinity of the Fairfax shooting.

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CHUNG: We begin with the reporter who interviewed Muhammad's ex- wife in today's "Washington Post." Marcia Slacum Greene joins us from Washington.

Marcia, thank you so much for being with us.

MARCIA SLACUM GREENE, "WASHINGTON POST": Sure.

CHUNG: Why does his ex-wife believe that she was the target?

SLACUM GREENE: She believes that the only reason he was in this area -- in the Washington area, was because of her. And some years ago he had threatened to kill her. They had a bitter divorce.

At one point she had accused him of kidnapping the children. And she says that he had promised to kill her.

CHUNG: Well, were there specifics that she pointed to that made her believe that she in fact was the target?

SLACUM GREENE: Well, she's always believed that one day he would find her. In the past, she says that he had talked to friends in Tacoma, Washington, where they used to live, desperately trying to locate her, to figure out where she had gone. And so she figured he was always looking for her.

And now since the sniper -- the information has come out about the sniper attacks, she does see similarities in some of the things that -- and places where the shootings took place.

For example, when they lived in Tacoma, Washington, the Michael's store there, the Home Depot, were some of her favorite stores.

CHUNG: I see. Marcia, did she feel as if he was a violent person, that he had been when she was married to him?

SLACUM GREENE: She -- in terms of their relationship, she says that he pushed her once. But the kind of abuse that she says she suffered from her ex-husband was primarily verbal abuse. That he played mind games with her to the point where -- of trying to have control over her, to the point where she contemplated suicide.

CHUNG: Did she notice a change in him at any point in their relationship?

SLACUM GREENE: She said he changed dramatically after he came back from the Gulf War -- that the man who came back was not the guy she married. She said that he was angry, he was quiet at times, and that it seemed like he was almost -- a Jekyll & Hyde are the words that she used -- that sometimes he was charming but with her often, she -- he treated her as if she were his enemy.

CHUNG: She probably had not met Malvo, but the question arises, does she believe that a young boy, 17-years-old or even younger, could be influenced by her ex-husband?

SLACUM GREENE: She does. She did not meet him but, you know, for a time her children were with her ex-husband, and they met Malvo. And her son has told her that Malvo was a nice young man, very helpful to him. And she feels that if he is a suspect in this, she feels very much like her ex-husband could have influenced him.

She said he had that power, that he was -- it was one of his skills.

CHUNG: Did Mildred go back into his childhood, his upbringing and how his parents treated him?

SLACUM GREENE: She did not. They grew up in the same neighborhood in Baton Rouge, in a place called "The Feel (ph)." She did not know him in high school even though they attended the same high school. Her brother and his brother were best friends. But she met him in 1983. So she did not know much about his childhood.

CHUNG: Marcia, I know she's in hiding now. Obviously, she fears for her life, and even the safety of her children as well? They have three children, correct?

SLACUM GREENE: Yes, they do. She is basically concerned. She says she's still frightened. She says she doesn't know if maybe there isn't someone else out there. And she also says that she's watching the news and looking at the details, and she says that they don't have the evidence to convict him at the moment -- or she's concerned that they don't have the evidence to convict him and that if he leaves prison that he may come after her. So she's still very frightened. CHUNG: One of the most fascinating things, I think, that came out of your article was the fact that she talked to her children about possibly changing their name.

SLACUM GREENE: Yes. She says she talked to them about changing their entire name. First and last name. Her son, the oldest of the children, is named after his father, and she says this has been a very painful situation for him. But she says she also told her children that it perhaps would be better to change their names because this is going to -- no matter what happens, this is going to follow them the rest of their lives and she fears that what her ex-husband is accused of may be used later to judge them and she doesn't want that to happen.

She says the children were very sad and cried at just the idea of having to change their names.

CHUNG: And just in the last 10 seconds, I know that authorities came to her home just before they arrested Muhammad and Malvo. Did the authorities take her into hiding, or is she in hiding on her own?

SLACUM GREENE: Well, I'd rather not talk about it now, but she did say that federal agents came to her house before his name and picture were released and they took them into protective custody then, because they were concerned that, you know, he might try to harm her.

CHUNG: All right. Marcia Slacum Greene, congratulations on your exclusive interview.

SLACUM GREENE: Thank you.

CHUNG: And thank you so much for your information. We thank you.

SLACUM GREENE: Thank you.

CHUNG: Right now you're about to meet a man who police say was not only robbed of his laptop by the two snipers, but was also shot by them six times in the September 5 robbery in Prince George's County.

Paul Laruffa joins us now from Clinton, Maryland.

Mr. Laruffa, thank you so much for being with us. May I call you Paul?

PAUL LARUFFA, SUSPECTED SNIPER VICTIM: Sure.

CHUNG: OK. I wanted to ask you just exactly what happened on September 5.

LARUFFA: On September 5, I had closed my restaurant at 10:30. I locked the door. I left with two other individuals. And we proceeded to walk towards our respective cars. We each entered our cars. As soon as I entered my car, through the driver's side window, just in my peripheral vision, a shadow appeared, a flash of light, a gunshot, the window broke, shots came in, and I leaned over towards the console and waited for the shots to stop.

CHUNG: And I understand you don't even know how many shots were fired, and police are estimating six.

LARUFFA: They estimate six. It was at least four. I know I heard -- I heard at least four. And they said six in the hospital, but some of them might be holes that -- two holes came from one bullet passing through my arm into my chest, or something like that.

CHUNG: Unbelievable that you survived. Now, I can tell, obviously, your hand is still recovering. Tell us about your injuries. Do you have lingering injuries?

LARUFFA: No. I'm in great shape, except one of the bullets did go through my arm and damaged a nerve, and I can close my hand. I can't open it too well. And this device just helps me use my hand. And they're pretty confident, they're 90 percent sure the nerve will regenerate. And in a few months I'll just be 100 percent.

CHUNG: It's incredible. Were you able to see the person who shot you?

LARUFFA: No. I just saw a shadow, shadowy figure, and then the gunshots started immediately.

CHUNG: All right. According to authorities now, you knew that your laptop was stolen. But now...

LARUFFA: Right. My laptop.

CHUNG: Now authorities say that what was found on that laptop was information that really sort of lays out a blueprint for these sniper attacks. Can you imagine that your laptop turned out to be such a valuable piece of evidence?

LARUFFA: No. It's hard to imagine just the unbelievable experience of being shot and then piled on top of that is to be shot by one of these guys and the laptop ending up being a big piece of evidence is -- it's hard to fathom, hard to fathom.

CHUNG: And I know that in the beginning you didn't necessarily think that this was connected in any way to the sniper shootings, right? As they were going on, yours occurred earlier on September 5.

LARUFFA: Right. I had no clue. I was shot six times and robbed. The snipers, when they started, people were being shot with a rifle one shot at a time. I never related it at all to what I went through.

CHUNG: All right. Well, Mr. Laruffa, I thank you so much for being with us. You do have an amazing story. And we just wish you well.

Still ahead -- after weeks of wrangling, the U.N. gives the president what he wants. And now the clock is ticking for Iraq. Stay with us. ANNOUNCER: Still ahead -- a tawdry tale of royal revelations. We'll learn more of the final insult, the very day Diana was buried. When CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT returns.

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CHUNG: For Iraq, the United Nations and the United States, the deadlines are now set. The clock is ticking. The U.N. Security Council today unanimously approved, 15-0, a resolution threatening Iraq with, quote, "serious consequences if it does not comply."

Here's what Saddam has to do. By next Friday he has to say whether Iraq accepts the resolution and will allow inspectors free access whenever they want, wherever they want, including Saddam's presidential palaces. By 30 days from now Saddam must provide a list of all the chemical, biological, and nuclear weaponry he has.

The resolution calls for the return of inspectors within 45 days. If Saddam does not comply, if inspectors are blocked in any way, the U.N. warned of,quote, "serious consequences." President Bush made some concessions to get the resolution passed, but after it all went through, he went further than the U.N., warning of, quote, "severest consequences" and said America will do what it must to make sure Saddam complies.

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BUSH: America will be making only one determination: is Iraq meeting the terms of the Security Council resolution or not? The United States has agreed to discuss any material breach with the Security Council, but without jeopardizing our freedom of action to defend our country. If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.

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CHUNG: The first chemical and biological weapons inspectors are set to return to Baghdad a week from Monday, four years after they were expelled by Saddam.

Joining us now from the U.N. is senior U.N. correspondent Richard Roth.

Richard, I think the burning question is if Saddam does not ultimately comply, does that mean that the United States will feel free to invade Iraq, or will the United States have to go back to the U.N. for approval?

RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Well, that was the final concession by the United States. Washington agreed to return to the Security Council for another meeting should there be a serious Iraqi violation. There'll be some debate, consultations.

But the U.S. is not going to wait around for a long consultations and another vote, another resolution. They've made it clear they'll still go it alone. But France and Russia were pleased to hear and see in the resolution that there would be another session of the council at least.

CHUNG: So just as you said, that meant that France and Russia would come on board. What about Syria, who we would think would have abstained or voted no?

ROTH: Well, times are changing in the world. Syria, according to many diplomats here, didn't want to be isolated. U.S. officials said it wouldn't be in Syria's interest to not join with the others. Syria and the U.S. have been working together more closely over the last few months on terrorism. In the end Syria did not want to be alone.

CHUNG: Now, if the United States does invade Iraq, what kind of timetable do you think the United States would be talking about?

ROTH: Well, from the political standpoint they're going to need to see a violation and first test, Iraq has to cooperate and get the inspectors back in there. After that the clock is ticking, as you said, because it could take a violation. Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, will rush back here, and then it will be up to the United States if they want to pursue diplomacy still or whether they want to launch some planes and missiles.

CHUNG: All right. Thank you, Richard Roth.

Now, although Iraq signaled yesterday that it was resigned to the resolution, as you might expect, Saddam isn't too happy with it. Joining us now from Iraq's capital is Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf.

Jane, thank you for being with us. Jane, I know that there was sort of a preliminary reaction from the draft resolution in Iraq. But has there been an official reaction?

JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF: Well, we've just received word, Connie, that the Iraqi News Agency, which is state-run, and so the official comment, has come out with a brief statement. It reports pretty factually that this resolution has been passed in New York, and it goes on to say that the issue of this unjustified resolution comes after Iraq accepted letting the weapons inspectors back in.

It goes further to say that this resolution was made on the basis of pressure and blackmail by what it calls the "evil United States administration." Now, that's pretty heated rhetoric, but it doesn't actually mean that Iraq will reject the resolution. Indeed, it doesn't really have much choice but to accept if it doesn't want very severe consequences much sooner than it otherwise would. But it does mean that it does have very serious reservations and will accept it probably with protest -- Connie.

CHUNG: And would that emerge through a statement?

ARRAF: We'll probably be seeing quite a few statements as the days go by. Now, as you mentioned, Iraq does have seven days to accept or reject this. But it has been stating repeatedly that it feels the resolution in general is just a U.N. cover for what it is convinced is a U.S. military strike that's going to go on no matter what.

Now, the specific problems that it has with the resolution and the weapons inspections are that elements of it couldn't contravine Iraq's sovereignty and its territorial integrity. Some of that, for instance, is the palace inspections, the fact that inspectors can now go anywhere they want anytime they want, including the palaces.

Iraq, of course, says it has no weapons of mass destruction, but it says that some places should be respected in terms of the way that they were with previous inspections. Respecting Iraq's dignity, as it says -- Connie.

CHUNG: All right. Jane Arraf in Baghdad. Thank you.

Still ahead, CNN's Serena Altschul will be here with some pretty disturbing news on the drug front. You'll see the frightening effects coming up.

ANNOUNCER: Coming up, Robert Hannsen, the notorious spy. His psychologist, his best friend, and the stripper he took on vacation. Tell all. When CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT returns.

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CHUNG: Do you have a secret life, things no one could believe you would do? Fantasies no one could imagine? What if you were a devoted family man, devoutly religious, with a career at the FBI? Would that kind of man cheat on his wife, videotape her in bed, and betray his country? And regularly confess it all at church?

Well, as CNN investigative correspondent Art Harris tells us, the answer is yes.

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ART HARRIS, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For U.S. intelligence, an intelligence nightmare. A veteran FBI agent trained to catch spies turned spy for the Soviets. Caught last year feeding his country's hottest secrets to a Cold War enemy. Who'd fooled not only his family but fellow FBI agents alike.

PAUL MOORE, FORMER FBI AGENT: His ambition is to play the spy game better than anybody's ever played it before. He wants to be the best spy ever.

HARRIS: Arrested last year outside this Fairfax, Virginia park while dropping secret documents for Russian handlers, Robert Phillip Hanssen, 58 years old, who lived here in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. A father of six, married to the same woman for over 30 years, a devout churchgoer. He grew up in chicago. In college he took Russian, became an accountant. His family says he was belittled as the introvert the son of a cop, so he became one, then joined the FBI and rose through its ranks.

Federal agents carted off his computers, ending two decades of spying. After keeping a low profile, Hanssen was charged with cashing in big, $600,000 in cash, a few diamonds, and promises of more money to come in a Moscow bank.

He admits that in return the Soviets reaped a fortune in secrets, including the names of at least three Soviet agents working for the U.S. who were later called home to Moscow and executed. Secret plans of how the U.S. would hide the president and others in the event of a nuclear attack. The existence of a secret tunnel beneath the soviet embassy in Washington set up so the U.S. could eavesdrop.

There were at least two sides to Robert Hanssen, experts say. A husband who appeared devoted to his wife, Bonnie, but who also rigged a surveillance camera in his bedroom, a friend has told the FBI, so the friend could watch them having sex.

And a stripper who worked here has related how Hanssen lavished thousands of dollars on her. He was a double agent with double standards, say those he worked with, even objecting when agents wanted to throw a good-bye party for a colleague at a nude club.

MOORE: He was just tremendously against that, absolutely sincere, You should not go to these places, it's wrong if you go to the places, it's a sin if you go to the places.

HARRIS: Hanssen was just weeks away from retirement when he was busted. He pled guilty July 8, 2001.

(on camera): To avoid the death penalty Hanssen promised to tell the FBI what he'd already told the Russians. Sentenced to life without parole he's yet to explain exactly why or how he pulled it off for so long.

Art Harris, CNN, Atlanta.

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CHUNG: Joining me now, veteran journalist David Wise. His new book, "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America," reveals the secrets of a man who revealed America's secrets.

Thank you, Mr. Wise, for being with us.

DAVID WISE, AUTHOR, "SPY": Thank you, Connie.

CHUNG: David, actually, you have revealed some fascinating new information about how the government cracked the case. And it all had to do with $7 million in payoffs to a former KGB agent. I mean, it sounds like a movie.

WISE: Well, it was a kind of mission impossible. I mean, Tom Cruise wasn't in this thing, but the FBI located a former Russian spy who had access to, had actually handled the file on Robert Hanssen, whose name the Russians didn't even know, and they paid him $7 million to get the file out of Moscow, and...

CHUNG: Was this a crucial file?

WISE: Oh, absolutely. It was the file on Robert Hanssen. And the FBI did not know his identity. And the file didn't have his name. But there were enough clues in the file, including a tape recording, that enabled the FBI to pinpoint the mole.

CHUNG: And it was the -- a tape recording of Hanssen's voice?

WISE: That's right. Which at first they didn't recognize. They knew it ways familiar voice and then eventually they realized it was Hanssen.

CHUNG: Was the FBI just asleep at the wheel? Because there were all sorts of clues. His brother-in-law, Hanssen's brother-in-law, found money in his dresser drawer. There were all sorts of other things, weren't there?

WISE: There were a number of things. The thing is there was no smoking gun, there was no one thing that said, Oh, my God, it's Robert Hanssen. There were a lot of clues which taken together might have led to that conclusion.

CHUNG: So one of the, I think, most sort of shocking things about the information that you have revealed is that this man had such a bizarre sex life. And at the same time he was such a devout religious man.

WISE: Yes, that's why I call him a total paradox, a total study in contradiction. He put a small videocamera in his bedroom so that when his -- he and his wife had sex in the bedroom his best friend visiting the Hanssen home could be sitting in the comfort of the downstairs den watching the whole thing on close circuit television. And the next day they would discuss it, you know, how did it go.

CHUNG: And you convinced his best friend to talk to you?

WISE: Yes, I did.

CHUNG: That's how you got the information. You also were able to talk to Hanssen's psychiatrist, and that was what revealed a great deal of the information you received.

WISE: That was s big break because, you know, when I started this book, Connie, I said, Well how am I get at this man's motives and what makes him tick if I can't talk to him? And the government's had him locked up and nobody can interview him. Well, Hanssen himself authorized his psychiatrist to speak exclusively to me.

And indeed, the psychiatrist did help me understand his mind and his motivations. I have a whole chapter on that.

CHUNG: And were his motivations money?

WISE: At first I'm sure that's what triggered it. He was stationed in New York. His salary was not sufficient for the house he bought in the suburb called Scarsdale, which is an expensive place to live. So he needed money.

But as the psychiatrist emphasized to me after talking a lot about this with Hanssen, it wasn't just money. He never asked for a lot of money.

CHUNG: But it was over a half million dollars.

WISE: Yes. But he never asked for more than $100,000. Of course, he took the rest. But the psychiatrist emphasized it was money to impress his wife, Bonnie, that he was not a failure, that he was a good provider.

This man's father, and he spent a lot of time talking about his father, who was a cop in Chicago, had always told Hanssen that Hanssen would never amount to much, that he was a loser, that he was always putting him down.

And so I think that there was an element there of trying to impress his wife that he wasn't what his father had told him all these years.

CHUNG: And why the stripper? The relationship with a stripper?

WISE: I think it was part of his -- one thing that emerged from my talk with the psychiatrist, several talks with the psychiatrist, Dr. David Charney, was that he -- he had a James Bond syndrome, I guess you'd call it. He wanted the excitement. He carried a machine gun in his car trunk, for example. And one friend knew him as Machine Gun Bob.

CHUNG: Oh my gosh.

WISE: And so I think the idea of, hey, you know, you have a stripper in your arm in Hong Kong, and she was a very good-looking gal in those days, and you've got -- you know, he had a Rolex that he bought with the Russian money, and he may have, you know, fantasized that he was a sort of James Bond character. And then in his other life he's mowing the lawn in Vienna, Virginia, and going to mass every day and being the perfect suburban husband and father.

CHUNG: David Wise, thank you so much for being with us.

WISE: Thank you so much.

CHUNG: And sharing your book with us. And the name of that book again is "Spy: The Inside Story Of How The FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America."

Thank you for being with us.

We'll be right back.

ANNOUNCER: Next, you have no idea what your kids might be doing when you're not around.

Emergency room doctors know. Find out before you get the call. CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT will be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CHUNG: There's a new drug your kids may be using that you probably don't even know about. It's a drug so potent even junkies stopped using it back in the '70s. The drug -- PCP. And laced with formaldehyde, it's being used more and more as a booster with pot and other drugs. Used by young people and old.

On the street, they call it "fry" or "wet" or "illy" or any number of other names. On Sunday night at 8:00 Eastern time "CNN PRESENTS" will air a full hour entitled "Fried." It's all about this growing trend. And "Fried" is reported by CNN correspondent Serena Altschul. And we are so happy to have you with us. Welcome.

SERENA ALTCHUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you so much. So glad to be here.

CHUNG: Good. So we'll get to your explanation of this entire hour in just a minute. But first, let's take a look at a clip.

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ALTSCHUL: So it's like little black flakes of stuff?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. It's mint flakes, it's poured on the mint flakes, like spices.

ALTSCHUL (voice-over): Mint leaves soaked in embalming fluid that's laced with PCP, a drug long known for its violent and psychotic side effects.

(on camera): How does it make you feel when you smoke it? How is it different from weed?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your body starts to feel numb. It's a numbness in your body. Starting to feel good now. Starting to feel good.

ALTSCHUL (voice-over): It's no epidemic, but use of illy is on the rise. This emergency room in New Haven sees an average of ten illy patients a week.

ALTSCHUL: And Dr. Julie Holland (ph) is seeing more illy admissions where she works at Bellevue Hospital in New York. She's been studying and writing about this drug since 1998.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People, they try this, thinking it's a new drug, and you know, people get excited about a new drug. It doesn't often come along that there's a new drug. And so they want to try the new drug, and they think it's just like a little bit of a twist on marijuana. And they get much more than they bargained for. They don't know that it's PCP or that it very likely could be PCP and that's what I think is the public health issue.

ALTSCHUL: Sergeant Arvid Laftwich (ph) heads up the Narcotics Unit in Hartford, Connecticut, where he first saw illy three years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right there. Right there.

ALTSCHUL: You see him? He's running.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on.

ALTSCHUL: Oh, my gosh. They got some guy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on. Come on! Oh, man.

ALTSCHUL: What's he got?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come here. You want to smell something? Smell that. That's your wet. That's your illy.

ALTSCHUL: Well, I can smell it from here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can smell it, see? The stuff fell out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I feel like I'm absolutely seeing more PCP cases in the psychiatric emergency room where I'm working. I'm hearing about more people talk about PCP, I'm hearing more people talk about dust, angel dust. I'm hearing more people come in from Philadelphia who are high on wet, which sounds like it's embalming fluid. They say that they think it's embalming fluid, but they're testing positive for PCP.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm high as (expletive).

ALTSCHUL: Yes. What should we know? What this should learn? You know, if we don't know anything about dust, we don't know anything about wet, illy, fry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't do it. Don't touch it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you never smoked it, don't smoke it. You're chasing your first wet high. That's what it is. You want to get the same high you had the first time you smoked.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're chasing your first high.

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CHUNG: Oh, wow. You know, I don't think I've ever heard of this stuff, this morbid embalming fluid. Except maybe on "Six Feet Under."

ALTSCHUL: Right.

CHUNG: So why would kids want to...

ALTSCHUL: Smoke embalming fluid?

CHUNG: Exactly.

ALTSCHUL: It's strange. I think that was one of the things that triggered our interest, having seen that episode of "Six Feet Under" and hearing about people smoking embalming fluid and having read a few little articles and then getting in touch with one of the doctors.

I said, Is this really going on, are people smoking embalming fluid and how does it affect you does it really get you high? And what they told me is that there are no studies currently done on the effects of embalming fluid on the brain, but what they did tell us also is that it has PCP in it.

So somebody, dealers, are mixing it with PCP, and that in fact is what's getting people high. And often they don't know. So they're smoking embalming fluid and they don't realize that it has PCP in it. That's dangerous.

CHUNG: Absolutely. You know, you have the best technique. I mean, it is reality TV.

ALTSCHUL: Thank you.

CHUNG: How did you get those kids on the street to agree to be, you know, videotaped?

ALTSCHUL: Simply just talking to them and asking them. We gave out our cell phone number, pagers, said contact us, you know, if you want to speak or if you have any friends that want to talk about it.

CHUNG: And they felt free? I mean, knowing that their faces would be...

ALTSCHUL: Some do.

CHUNG: ... disguised. Except for that one boy I saw, his face was used.

ALTSCHUL: Several of them said it was OK to put their faces on, and several of them later on said, No, we don't want it. So we blurred their faces. But I think just, you know, not judging people and just listening, I think that's really what makes people feel comfortable talking.

CHUNG: When the kids weren't high, were you able to talk to them and ask them, you know, more questions about it?

ALTSCHUL: Yes. In the hour we also talked to several young people, two 15-year-olds in particular in rehab who were just getting out. In fact, we followed them out as they go home into their first days back. One of them returns to using right away, he tells me, he confesses right on camera. He says, you know, I did it my first day back.

The other young man didn't do it right away but has had other problems. So he, you know, he's -- we're hoping, we're keeping our fingers crossed for him.

CHUNG: Sure. Serena, we're just so happy to have you. I've watched you for a long time on MTV, and you were just great.

ALTSCHUL: Thanks, Connie. CHUNG: OK. And that's Sunday, right? "CNN PRESENTS," 8:00 p.m. Big hour.

Stay with us. We've got the newest revelations from Princess Diana's butler about royal life behind palace doors. Stay with us.

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CHUNG: What a week for the Brits. A stunning week. Full of royal revelations and feuding families.

No sooner had Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell gotten himself off the hook of theft charges, with more than a little help from the queen, he sold his story for big bucks to the British press, and that unleashed a torrent of torrid tabloid headlines.

Wednesday, day one, the story that the queen had warned him about unknown enemies in the country. Day two -- Thursday, Burrell accuses the Spencers of hypocrisy, shunning Diana in life, embracing her after her death. And today, what they called the final insult, Burrell's claim that Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, replaced the royal flag on Diana's coffin with the Spencer flag out of spite. Ouch! Then today an excerpt from his first interview since the scandals broke.

Burrell discussed why he has criticized the Spencers so harshly.

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BURRELL: I think perhaps the family was just dysfunctional. It's difficult to say. From a very early age the princess had had a difficult life living in a huge stately home with parents who were busy doing other things, away at boarding school. Life wasn't easy for her from the very beginning.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHUNG: Robert Jobson is the author of "Diana: Closely Guarded Secret," and joins us tonight from London.

Thank you so much for being with us, Robert. Tell us, do you know the truth about which flag is on Diana's coffin? Because Earl Spencer says it's not true that he had it replaced.

ROBERT JOBSON, AUTHOR, "DIANA: CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET": Well, on this one I believe Earl Spencer. I've spoken to people at Althorp today where Diana is buried, and I think the butler is running out of stories to tell for the amount of money that he's been paid. And he's obviously dredging up all sorts of, as Ken Wolf, my co-author with the book I wrote, is best-selling fiction, I think it's best described. I think this is complete non-sense and totally unfair.

CHUNG: It's gotten so ugly now. I mean, I'm wondering if the Brits are for or against the butler.

JOBSON: Well, I think it's about 50-50 at the moment. I'm not for or against him either way, really. I think the butler, he got off the charges, but he didn't get cleared by a jury, it was done with sort of dodgy deal backstairs, deal between lawyers which nobody really likes.

And I'm sure even Paul Burrell himself would have preferred to have been acquitted by a jury. But the queen's intervention has left everybody slightly worried about what's going on here. They don't quite understand how the British legal system has been left in such turmoil, and also, more importantly, how the monarchy has been looking pretty shabby as a result of all this fiasco.

CHUNG: Do you think that the queen's intervention actually is the reason why the butler hasn't been very critical of the Royals in fact sort of like a bribe?

JOBSON: I wouldn't say it was a bribe. I'd say that it's very convenient, isn't it, that he was just about to go in the witness box in which he could have made some serious allegations and as well as some serious revelations.

I mean, one of the things going on at the moment in Britain in the media as well is a statement was issued by Prince Charles's office, unprecedented statement, saying that he was not involved in a cover-up involving a gay sexual -- homosexual assault -- between two male members of staff at St. James's Palace. Extraordinary revelations. Extraordinary things to come out.

So it's now becoming really, really strange over here because people are saying, Well, what exactly is it that the royal family didn't want the butler to say in the witness box? But of course, this is serious in a way, Connie. Because 1 1/2 million pounds, around $2 million, has been spent on this trial and investigation, and Scotland Yard would not have investigated it if they didn't feel there was something to answer.

And of course, they did in fact investigate the rape allegations as well, which surfaced as a result of the Burrell investigation. But unfortunately, they didn't know anything about it until that happened, and now Charles is out issuing statements about he never covered anything up. Very murky business, and causing an awful lot of interest back here in London.

CHUNG: Well, so is the cover-up that hurts.

Now, one last question. Burrell has been criticized heavily for not returning the possessions that he had that belonged to Diana and not returning them to her children. Especially her personal correspondence with Prince William. Now he says he's going to return them, but why didn't he return hem in the first place?

JOBSON: Well, I can't answer it. I simply don't understand it. He had them for five years.

He claims he told the queen he had a few letters. Well, that doesn't explain one thing, Connie. Why didn't he tell Diana's mother and sister, who were, after all, were executors of the will, that he had them? And if he didn't tell them and didn't trust them, which is by implication, all this brouhaha that's going on now is clearly saying that, why didn't he go to the other executor, the Bishop of London, who after all is a man of God and perhaps should be more trustworthy, and tell him?

There isn't really a very good explanation. And of course, he didn't tell police he'd had this convenient conversation with the queen until a few days before he was due to go in the box.

CHUNG: It all..

JOBSON: There's an awful lot of questions unanswered still.

CHUNG: Yes, and it all smells terribly. Robert Jobson, thank you so much for being with us.

So it's been quite a week for Paul Burrell. He's just won the celebrity equivalent of the Super Bowl, cleared of charges, pocketed more than a half million for spilling his secrets.

What is he going to do next? Well, you can bet he's not going to Disney World. Stick around.

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CHUNG: We'll be right back with a peek at what Princess Diana's butler is doing next.

But first, we check out what your money is doing now. Here's tonight's "LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE" update.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LOU DOBBS, CNN HOST: I'm Lou Dobbs. The Dow Jones Industrials fell today but still managed another weekly gain. In fact, the fifth weekly gain for the Dow in a row. The Dow today lost 49 points. The Nasdaq dropped 17.

McDonald's today announced some job cuts and the closing of almost 200 of its restaurants.

Join us for "MONEYLINE" weeknights, 6:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT returns shortly.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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CHUNG: Before we go tonight, we need to raise this one question: what does a former royal butler do after he's become a media superstar by letting the nation peek behind palace doors?

Now, come on. This is the 21st Century. He gets his own TV show, of course.

CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson on the butler's future.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Royal butler, royal rock, royal tattletale, and now maybe king of the quiz shows.

Sequestered at a not-so-secret location in the U.K., former royal butler Paul Burrell is already planning his next move: Host of a quiz show called, and I'm not kidding here, "What The Butler Saw."

STEPHEN LEAHY, LODUS ENTERTAINMENT: He's obeying. The people like him. He's very, very, very, very good with members of the public, and he has a natural television charm.

ROBERTSON: Indeed the former butler has already hosted TV programs about stately homes and etiquette.

That practice and his public persona make him a shoo-in, according to this quiz show executive, now attempting to sell Burrell's new venture around television networks.

LEAHY: Paul could make a lot of money given success. But it has to be a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic for that to happen.

ROBERTSON: Millions of dollars if he's able enough to follow the ice queen of British quiz shows, Ann Robinson, across the Atlantic.

Royalty, like soon to be talk show host Fergie, formerly the duchess of York, it seems get treated, well, like royalty.

Burrell's backers are hoping enough of the royal connection will have rubbed off, making the former backroom servant an attractive commercial proposition with an on-screen Midas touch.

However, producers being producers, they're taking no chances.

LEAHY: Paul's going to need a lot of training for television to be a quiz show host. It's a different demand, obviously, than normal television would be. He's up for that. We will give him all the training he needs.

ROBERTSON (on-camera): Burrell's agent was the idea man behind the quiz show. However, with the former butler under contract it's impossible to gauge just how he feels about the new career.

For now at least his manager is doing all the talking, and he thinks he's struck the royal mint.

Nic Robertson, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CHUNG: On Monday, we'll show you more of Paul Burrell's interview, airing Sunday in Britain. And we'll meet the host of that program, who spoke with him. And coming up next on "LARRY KING LIVE": Tom Brokaw.

Hi, Tom.

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CONNIE CHUNG, CNN HOST: Good evening. I'm Connie Chung. Tonight, was the sniper spree an elaborate scheme to kill an ex-wife?
ANNOUNCER: Could the sniper killings be the result of a bitter child custody battle? The ex-wife of John Muhammad believes she was the real target.

Plus, this man's stolen laptop computer now linked to another shooting. And it's chilling diary of death.

Decision day at the U.N.

KOFI ANNAN, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: The resolution sets out, in clear terms, Iraq's obligation to cooperate with the United States and ensuring the full and final disarmament of its weapons of mass destruction.

ANNOUNCER: Saddam gets one last chance to disarm or face war.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: His cooperation must be prompt and unconditional or he will face the severest consequences.

ANNOUNCER: The clock is ticking. Can Baghdad meet the deadline?

For 22 years, Robert Hanssen was living a lie. Suburban lifestyle,a wife and six kids, working for the FBI, while spying for the Russians. The inside story: how Robert Hanssen betrayed America.

The butler's bombshell.

PAUL BURRELL, PRINCESS DIANA'S FORMER BUTLER: Family relationships were strained. It was difficult. I think perhaps the family was dysfunctional.

ANNOUNCER: New details on his blistering attack on Princess Diana's family. But the question everyone wants to know: can the butler be believed?

This is CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT. From the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, Connie Chung.

CHUNG: Good evening. Tonight, a new development in the sniper case. The prosecutor in Fairfax County, Virginia says 17-year-old John Lee Malvo's fingerprints were the only prints found on the Bushmaster rifle allegedly used in the shootings that terrorized the Washington D.C. area. Investigators are not saying if that means Malvo was the only shooter.

Meanwhile, the ex-wife of John Muhammad reportedly says she thinks the deadly string of sniper shootings was an elaborate scheme intended to lead up to her murder and make it look as though it was just one in a string of random killings.

We'll meet the reporter who broke this story with an exclusive interview in just a moment.

But first, both suspects appeared in court. Muhammad was told a lawyer will be appointed for him and at John lee Malvo's court appearance, Fairfax County, Virginia prosecutors revealed why they think they have a strong case against him.

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ROBERT HORAN, VA. COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY: There are witnesses who place him in the vicinity of both the Massaponax shooting, the Manassas shooting and we have a witness who places him in the vicinity of the Fairfax shooting.

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CHUNG: We begin with the reporter who interviewed Muhammad's ex- wife in today's "Washington Post." Marcia Slacum Greene joins us from Washington.

Marcia, thank you so much for being with us.

MARCIA SLACUM GREENE, "WASHINGTON POST": Sure.

CHUNG: Why does his ex-wife believe that she was the target?

SLACUM GREENE: She believes that the only reason he was in this area -- in the Washington area, was because of her. And some years ago he had threatened to kill her. They had a bitter divorce.

At one point she had accused him of kidnapping the children. And she says that he had promised to kill her.

CHUNG: Well, were there specifics that she pointed to that made her believe that she in fact was the target?

SLACUM GREENE: Well, she's always believed that one day he would find her. In the past, she says that he had talked to friends in Tacoma, Washington, where they used to live, desperately trying to locate her, to figure out where she had gone. And so she figured he was always looking for her.

And now since the sniper -- the information has come out about the sniper attacks, she does see similarities in some of the things that -- and places where the shootings took place.

For example, when they lived in Tacoma, Washington, the Michael's store there, the Home Depot, were some of her favorite stores.

CHUNG: I see. Marcia, did she feel as if he was a violent person, that he had been when she was married to him?

SLACUM GREENE: She -- in terms of their relationship, she says that he pushed her once. But the kind of abuse that she says she suffered from her ex-husband was primarily verbal abuse. That he played mind games with her to the point where -- of trying to have control over her, to the point where she contemplated suicide.

CHUNG: Did she notice a change in him at any point in their relationship?

SLACUM GREENE: She said he changed dramatically after he came back from the Gulf War -- that the man who came back was not the guy she married. She said that he was angry, he was quiet at times, and that it seemed like he was almost -- a Jekyll & Hyde are the words that she used -- that sometimes he was charming but with her often, she -- he treated her as if she were his enemy.

CHUNG: She probably had not met Malvo, but the question arises, does she believe that a young boy, 17-years-old or even younger, could be influenced by her ex-husband?

SLACUM GREENE: She does. She did not meet him but, you know, for a time her children were with her ex-husband, and they met Malvo. And her son has told her that Malvo was a nice young man, very helpful to him. And she feels that if he is a suspect in this, she feels very much like her ex-husband could have influenced him.

She said he had that power, that he was -- it was one of his skills.

CHUNG: Did Mildred go back into his childhood, his upbringing and how his parents treated him?

SLACUM GREENE: She did not. They grew up in the same neighborhood in Baton Rouge, in a place called "The Feel (ph)." She did not know him in high school even though they attended the same high school. Her brother and his brother were best friends. But she met him in 1983. So she did not know much about his childhood.

CHUNG: Marcia, I know she's in hiding now. Obviously, she fears for her life, and even the safety of her children as well? They have three children, correct?

SLACUM GREENE: Yes, they do. She is basically concerned. She says she's still frightened. She says she doesn't know if maybe there isn't someone else out there. And she also says that she's watching the news and looking at the details, and she says that they don't have the evidence to convict him at the moment -- or she's concerned that they don't have the evidence to convict him and that if he leaves prison that he may come after her. So she's still very frightened. CHUNG: One of the most fascinating things, I think, that came out of your article was the fact that she talked to her children about possibly changing their name.

SLACUM GREENE: Yes. She says she talked to them about changing their entire name. First and last name. Her son, the oldest of the children, is named after his father, and she says this has been a very painful situation for him. But she says she also told her children that it perhaps would be better to change their names because this is going to -- no matter what happens, this is going to follow them the rest of their lives and she fears that what her ex-husband is accused of may be used later to judge them and she doesn't want that to happen.

She says the children were very sad and cried at just the idea of having to change their names.

CHUNG: And just in the last 10 seconds, I know that authorities came to her home just before they arrested Muhammad and Malvo. Did the authorities take her into hiding, or is she in hiding on her own?

SLACUM GREENE: Well, I'd rather not talk about it now, but she did say that federal agents came to her house before his name and picture were released and they took them into protective custody then, because they were concerned that, you know, he might try to harm her.

CHUNG: All right. Marcia Slacum Greene, congratulations on your exclusive interview.

SLACUM GREENE: Thank you.

CHUNG: And thank you so much for your information. We thank you.

SLACUM GREENE: Thank you.

CHUNG: Right now you're about to meet a man who police say was not only robbed of his laptop by the two snipers, but was also shot by them six times in the September 5 robbery in Prince George's County.

Paul Laruffa joins us now from Clinton, Maryland.

Mr. Laruffa, thank you so much for being with us. May I call you Paul?

PAUL LARUFFA, SUSPECTED SNIPER VICTIM: Sure.

CHUNG: OK. I wanted to ask you just exactly what happened on September 5.

LARUFFA: On September 5, I had closed my restaurant at 10:30. I locked the door. I left with two other individuals. And we proceeded to walk towards our respective cars. We each entered our cars. As soon as I entered my car, through the driver's side window, just in my peripheral vision, a shadow appeared, a flash of light, a gunshot, the window broke, shots came in, and I leaned over towards the console and waited for the shots to stop.

CHUNG: And I understand you don't even know how many shots were fired, and police are estimating six.

LARUFFA: They estimate six. It was at least four. I know I heard -- I heard at least four. And they said six in the hospital, but some of them might be holes that -- two holes came from one bullet passing through my arm into my chest, or something like that.

CHUNG: Unbelievable that you survived. Now, I can tell, obviously, your hand is still recovering. Tell us about your injuries. Do you have lingering injuries?

LARUFFA: No. I'm in great shape, except one of the bullets did go through my arm and damaged a nerve, and I can close my hand. I can't open it too well. And this device just helps me use my hand. And they're pretty confident, they're 90 percent sure the nerve will regenerate. And in a few months I'll just be 100 percent.

CHUNG: It's incredible. Were you able to see the person who shot you?

LARUFFA: No. I just saw a shadow, shadowy figure, and then the gunshots started immediately.

CHUNG: All right. According to authorities now, you knew that your laptop was stolen. But now...

LARUFFA: Right. My laptop.

CHUNG: Now authorities say that what was found on that laptop was information that really sort of lays out a blueprint for these sniper attacks. Can you imagine that your laptop turned out to be such a valuable piece of evidence?

LARUFFA: No. It's hard to imagine just the unbelievable experience of being shot and then piled on top of that is to be shot by one of these guys and the laptop ending up being a big piece of evidence is -- it's hard to fathom, hard to fathom.

CHUNG: And I know that in the beginning you didn't necessarily think that this was connected in any way to the sniper shootings, right? As they were going on, yours occurred earlier on September 5.

LARUFFA: Right. I had no clue. I was shot six times and robbed. The snipers, when they started, people were being shot with a rifle one shot at a time. I never related it at all to what I went through.

CHUNG: All right. Well, Mr. Laruffa, I thank you so much for being with us. You do have an amazing story. And we just wish you well.

Still ahead -- after weeks of wrangling, the U.N. gives the president what he wants. And now the clock is ticking for Iraq. Stay with us. ANNOUNCER: Still ahead -- a tawdry tale of royal revelations. We'll learn more of the final insult, the very day Diana was buried. When CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT returns.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHUNG: For Iraq, the United Nations and the United States, the deadlines are now set. The clock is ticking. The U.N. Security Council today unanimously approved, 15-0, a resolution threatening Iraq with, quote, "serious consequences if it does not comply."

Here's what Saddam has to do. By next Friday he has to say whether Iraq accepts the resolution and will allow inspectors free access whenever they want, wherever they want, including Saddam's presidential palaces. By 30 days from now Saddam must provide a list of all the chemical, biological, and nuclear weaponry he has.

The resolution calls for the return of inspectors within 45 days. If Saddam does not comply, if inspectors are blocked in any way, the U.N. warned of,quote, "serious consequences." President Bush made some concessions to get the resolution passed, but after it all went through, he went further than the U.N., warning of, quote, "severest consequences" and said America will do what it must to make sure Saddam complies.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BUSH: America will be making only one determination: is Iraq meeting the terms of the Security Council resolution or not? The United States has agreed to discuss any material breach with the Security Council, but without jeopardizing our freedom of action to defend our country. If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHUNG: The first chemical and biological weapons inspectors are set to return to Baghdad a week from Monday, four years after they were expelled by Saddam.

Joining us now from the U.N. is senior U.N. correspondent Richard Roth.

Richard, I think the burning question is if Saddam does not ultimately comply, does that mean that the United States will feel free to invade Iraq, or will the United States have to go back to the U.N. for approval?

RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Well, that was the final concession by the United States. Washington agreed to return to the Security Council for another meeting should there be a serious Iraqi violation. There'll be some debate, consultations.

But the U.S. is not going to wait around for a long consultations and another vote, another resolution. They've made it clear they'll still go it alone. But France and Russia were pleased to hear and see in the resolution that there would be another session of the council at least.

CHUNG: So just as you said, that meant that France and Russia would come on board. What about Syria, who we would think would have abstained or voted no?

ROTH: Well, times are changing in the world. Syria, according to many diplomats here, didn't want to be isolated. U.S. officials said it wouldn't be in Syria's interest to not join with the others. Syria and the U.S. have been working together more closely over the last few months on terrorism. In the end Syria did not want to be alone.

CHUNG: Now, if the United States does invade Iraq, what kind of timetable do you think the United States would be talking about?

ROTH: Well, from the political standpoint they're going to need to see a violation and first test, Iraq has to cooperate and get the inspectors back in there. After that the clock is ticking, as you said, because it could take a violation. Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, will rush back here, and then it will be up to the United States if they want to pursue diplomacy still or whether they want to launch some planes and missiles.

CHUNG: All right. Thank you, Richard Roth.

Now, although Iraq signaled yesterday that it was resigned to the resolution, as you might expect, Saddam isn't too happy with it. Joining us now from Iraq's capital is Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf.

Jane, thank you for being with us. Jane, I know that there was sort of a preliminary reaction from the draft resolution in Iraq. But has there been an official reaction?

JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF: Well, we've just received word, Connie, that the Iraqi News Agency, which is state-run, and so the official comment, has come out with a brief statement. It reports pretty factually that this resolution has been passed in New York, and it goes on to say that the issue of this unjustified resolution comes after Iraq accepted letting the weapons inspectors back in.

It goes further to say that this resolution was made on the basis of pressure and blackmail by what it calls the "evil United States administration." Now, that's pretty heated rhetoric, but it doesn't actually mean that Iraq will reject the resolution. Indeed, it doesn't really have much choice but to accept if it doesn't want very severe consequences much sooner than it otherwise would. But it does mean that it does have very serious reservations and will accept it probably with protest -- Connie.

CHUNG: And would that emerge through a statement?

ARRAF: We'll probably be seeing quite a few statements as the days go by. Now, as you mentioned, Iraq does have seven days to accept or reject this. But it has been stating repeatedly that it feels the resolution in general is just a U.N. cover for what it is convinced is a U.S. military strike that's going to go on no matter what.

Now, the specific problems that it has with the resolution and the weapons inspections are that elements of it couldn't contravine Iraq's sovereignty and its territorial integrity. Some of that, for instance, is the palace inspections, the fact that inspectors can now go anywhere they want anytime they want, including the palaces.

Iraq, of course, says it has no weapons of mass destruction, but it says that some places should be respected in terms of the way that they were with previous inspections. Respecting Iraq's dignity, as it says -- Connie.

CHUNG: All right. Jane Arraf in Baghdad. Thank you.

Still ahead, CNN's Serena Altschul will be here with some pretty disturbing news on the drug front. You'll see the frightening effects coming up.

ANNOUNCER: Coming up, Robert Hannsen, the notorious spy. His psychologist, his best friend, and the stripper he took on vacation. Tell all. When CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT returns.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHUNG: Do you have a secret life, things no one could believe you would do? Fantasies no one could imagine? What if you were a devoted family man, devoutly religious, with a career at the FBI? Would that kind of man cheat on his wife, videotape her in bed, and betray his country? And regularly confess it all at church?

Well, as CNN investigative correspondent Art Harris tells us, the answer is yes.

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ART HARRIS, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For U.S. intelligence, an intelligence nightmare. A veteran FBI agent trained to catch spies turned spy for the Soviets. Caught last year feeding his country's hottest secrets to a Cold War enemy. Who'd fooled not only his family but fellow FBI agents alike.

PAUL MOORE, FORMER FBI AGENT: His ambition is to play the spy game better than anybody's ever played it before. He wants to be the best spy ever.

HARRIS: Arrested last year outside this Fairfax, Virginia park while dropping secret documents for Russian handlers, Robert Phillip Hanssen, 58 years old, who lived here in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. A father of six, married to the same woman for over 30 years, a devout churchgoer. He grew up in chicago. In college he took Russian, became an accountant. His family says he was belittled as the introvert the son of a cop, so he became one, then joined the FBI and rose through its ranks.

Federal agents carted off his computers, ending two decades of spying. After keeping a low profile, Hanssen was charged with cashing in big, $600,000 in cash, a few diamonds, and promises of more money to come in a Moscow bank.

He admits that in return the Soviets reaped a fortune in secrets, including the names of at least three Soviet agents working for the U.S. who were later called home to Moscow and executed. Secret plans of how the U.S. would hide the president and others in the event of a nuclear attack. The existence of a secret tunnel beneath the soviet embassy in Washington set up so the U.S. could eavesdrop.

There were at least two sides to Robert Hanssen, experts say. A husband who appeared devoted to his wife, Bonnie, but who also rigged a surveillance camera in his bedroom, a friend has told the FBI, so the friend could watch them having sex.

And a stripper who worked here has related how Hanssen lavished thousands of dollars on her. He was a double agent with double standards, say those he worked with, even objecting when agents wanted to throw a good-bye party for a colleague at a nude club.

MOORE: He was just tremendously against that, absolutely sincere, You should not go to these places, it's wrong if you go to the places, it's a sin if you go to the places.

HARRIS: Hanssen was just weeks away from retirement when he was busted. He pled guilty July 8, 2001.

(on camera): To avoid the death penalty Hanssen promised to tell the FBI what he'd already told the Russians. Sentenced to life without parole he's yet to explain exactly why or how he pulled it off for so long.

Art Harris, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CHUNG: Joining me now, veteran journalist David Wise. His new book, "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America," reveals the secrets of a man who revealed America's secrets.

Thank you, Mr. Wise, for being with us.

DAVID WISE, AUTHOR, "SPY": Thank you, Connie.

CHUNG: David, actually, you have revealed some fascinating new information about how the government cracked the case. And it all had to do with $7 million in payoffs to a former KGB agent. I mean, it sounds like a movie.

WISE: Well, it was a kind of mission impossible. I mean, Tom Cruise wasn't in this thing, but the FBI located a former Russian spy who had access to, had actually handled the file on Robert Hanssen, whose name the Russians didn't even know, and they paid him $7 million to get the file out of Moscow, and...

CHUNG: Was this a crucial file?

WISE: Oh, absolutely. It was the file on Robert Hanssen. And the FBI did not know his identity. And the file didn't have his name. But there were enough clues in the file, including a tape recording, that enabled the FBI to pinpoint the mole.

CHUNG: And it was the -- a tape recording of Hanssen's voice?

WISE: That's right. Which at first they didn't recognize. They knew it ways familiar voice and then eventually they realized it was Hanssen.

CHUNG: Was the FBI just asleep at the wheel? Because there were all sorts of clues. His brother-in-law, Hanssen's brother-in-law, found money in his dresser drawer. There were all sorts of other things, weren't there?

WISE: There were a number of things. The thing is there was no smoking gun, there was no one thing that said, Oh, my God, it's Robert Hanssen. There were a lot of clues which taken together might have led to that conclusion.

CHUNG: So one of the, I think, most sort of shocking things about the information that you have revealed is that this man had such a bizarre sex life. And at the same time he was such a devout religious man.

WISE: Yes, that's why I call him a total paradox, a total study in contradiction. He put a small videocamera in his bedroom so that when his -- he and his wife had sex in the bedroom his best friend visiting the Hanssen home could be sitting in the comfort of the downstairs den watching the whole thing on close circuit television. And the next day they would discuss it, you know, how did it go.

CHUNG: And you convinced his best friend to talk to you?

WISE: Yes, I did.

CHUNG: That's how you got the information. You also were able to talk to Hanssen's psychiatrist, and that was what revealed a great deal of the information you received.

WISE: That was s big break because, you know, when I started this book, Connie, I said, Well how am I get at this man's motives and what makes him tick if I can't talk to him? And the government's had him locked up and nobody can interview him. Well, Hanssen himself authorized his psychiatrist to speak exclusively to me.

And indeed, the psychiatrist did help me understand his mind and his motivations. I have a whole chapter on that.

CHUNG: And were his motivations money?

WISE: At first I'm sure that's what triggered it. He was stationed in New York. His salary was not sufficient for the house he bought in the suburb called Scarsdale, which is an expensive place to live. So he needed money.

But as the psychiatrist emphasized to me after talking a lot about this with Hanssen, it wasn't just money. He never asked for a lot of money.

CHUNG: But it was over a half million dollars.

WISE: Yes. But he never asked for more than $100,000. Of course, he took the rest. But the psychiatrist emphasized it was money to impress his wife, Bonnie, that he was not a failure, that he was a good provider.

This man's father, and he spent a lot of time talking about his father, who was a cop in Chicago, had always told Hanssen that Hanssen would never amount to much, that he was a loser, that he was always putting him down.

And so I think that there was an element there of trying to impress his wife that he wasn't what his father had told him all these years.

CHUNG: And why the stripper? The relationship with a stripper?

WISE: I think it was part of his -- one thing that emerged from my talk with the psychiatrist, several talks with the psychiatrist, Dr. David Charney, was that he -- he had a James Bond syndrome, I guess you'd call it. He wanted the excitement. He carried a machine gun in his car trunk, for example. And one friend knew him as Machine Gun Bob.

CHUNG: Oh my gosh.

WISE: And so I think the idea of, hey, you know, you have a stripper in your arm in Hong Kong, and she was a very good-looking gal in those days, and you've got -- you know, he had a Rolex that he bought with the Russian money, and he may have, you know, fantasized that he was a sort of James Bond character. And then in his other life he's mowing the lawn in Vienna, Virginia, and going to mass every day and being the perfect suburban husband and father.

CHUNG: David Wise, thank you so much for being with us.

WISE: Thank you so much.

CHUNG: And sharing your book with us. And the name of that book again is "Spy: The Inside Story Of How The FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America."

Thank you for being with us.

We'll be right back.

ANNOUNCER: Next, you have no idea what your kids might be doing when you're not around.

Emergency room doctors know. Find out before you get the call. CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT will be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CHUNG: There's a new drug your kids may be using that you probably don't even know about. It's a drug so potent even junkies stopped using it back in the '70s. The drug -- PCP. And laced with formaldehyde, it's being used more and more as a booster with pot and other drugs. Used by young people and old.

On the street, they call it "fry" or "wet" or "illy" or any number of other names. On Sunday night at 8:00 Eastern time "CNN PRESENTS" will air a full hour entitled "Fried." It's all about this growing trend. And "Fried" is reported by CNN correspondent Serena Altschul. And we are so happy to have you with us. Welcome.

SERENA ALTCHUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you so much. So glad to be here.

CHUNG: Good. So we'll get to your explanation of this entire hour in just a minute. But first, let's take a look at a clip.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ALTSCHUL: So it's like little black flakes of stuff?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. It's mint flakes, it's poured on the mint flakes, like spices.

ALTSCHUL (voice-over): Mint leaves soaked in embalming fluid that's laced with PCP, a drug long known for its violent and psychotic side effects.

(on camera): How does it make you feel when you smoke it? How is it different from weed?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your body starts to feel numb. It's a numbness in your body. Starting to feel good now. Starting to feel good.

ALTSCHUL (voice-over): It's no epidemic, but use of illy is on the rise. This emergency room in New Haven sees an average of ten illy patients a week.

ALTSCHUL: And Dr. Julie Holland (ph) is seeing more illy admissions where she works at Bellevue Hospital in New York. She's been studying and writing about this drug since 1998.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People, they try this, thinking it's a new drug, and you know, people get excited about a new drug. It doesn't often come along that there's a new drug. And so they want to try the new drug, and they think it's just like a little bit of a twist on marijuana. And they get much more than they bargained for. They don't know that it's PCP or that it very likely could be PCP and that's what I think is the public health issue.

ALTSCHUL: Sergeant Arvid Laftwich (ph) heads up the Narcotics Unit in Hartford, Connecticut, where he first saw illy three years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right there. Right there.

ALTSCHUL: You see him? He's running.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on.

ALTSCHUL: Oh, my gosh. They got some guy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on. Come on! Oh, man.

ALTSCHUL: What's he got?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come here. You want to smell something? Smell that. That's your wet. That's your illy.

ALTSCHUL: Well, I can smell it from here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can smell it, see? The stuff fell out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I feel like I'm absolutely seeing more PCP cases in the psychiatric emergency room where I'm working. I'm hearing about more people talk about PCP, I'm hearing more people talk about dust, angel dust. I'm hearing more people come in from Philadelphia who are high on wet, which sounds like it's embalming fluid. They say that they think it's embalming fluid, but they're testing positive for PCP.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm high as (expletive).

ALTSCHUL: Yes. What should we know? What this should learn? You know, if we don't know anything about dust, we don't know anything about wet, illy, fry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't do it. Don't touch it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you never smoked it, don't smoke it. You're chasing your first wet high. That's what it is. You want to get the same high you had the first time you smoked.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're chasing your first high.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHUNG: Oh, wow. You know, I don't think I've ever heard of this stuff, this morbid embalming fluid. Except maybe on "Six Feet Under."

ALTSCHUL: Right.

CHUNG: So why would kids want to...

ALTSCHUL: Smoke embalming fluid?

CHUNG: Exactly.

ALTSCHUL: It's strange. I think that was one of the things that triggered our interest, having seen that episode of "Six Feet Under" and hearing about people smoking embalming fluid and having read a few little articles and then getting in touch with one of the doctors.

I said, Is this really going on, are people smoking embalming fluid and how does it affect you does it really get you high? And what they told me is that there are no studies currently done on the effects of embalming fluid on the brain, but what they did tell us also is that it has PCP in it.

So somebody, dealers, are mixing it with PCP, and that in fact is what's getting people high. And often they don't know. So they're smoking embalming fluid and they don't realize that it has PCP in it. That's dangerous.

CHUNG: Absolutely. You know, you have the best technique. I mean, it is reality TV.

ALTSCHUL: Thank you.

CHUNG: How did you get those kids on the street to agree to be, you know, videotaped?

ALTSCHUL: Simply just talking to them and asking them. We gave out our cell phone number, pagers, said contact us, you know, if you want to speak or if you have any friends that want to talk about it.

CHUNG: And they felt free? I mean, knowing that their faces would be...

ALTSCHUL: Some do.

CHUNG: ... disguised. Except for that one boy I saw, his face was used.

ALTSCHUL: Several of them said it was OK to put their faces on, and several of them later on said, No, we don't want it. So we blurred their faces. But I think just, you know, not judging people and just listening, I think that's really what makes people feel comfortable talking.

CHUNG: When the kids weren't high, were you able to talk to them and ask them, you know, more questions about it?

ALTSCHUL: Yes. In the hour we also talked to several young people, two 15-year-olds in particular in rehab who were just getting out. In fact, we followed them out as they go home into their first days back. One of them returns to using right away, he tells me, he confesses right on camera. He says, you know, I did it my first day back.

The other young man didn't do it right away but has had other problems. So he, you know, he's -- we're hoping, we're keeping our fingers crossed for him.

CHUNG: Sure. Serena, we're just so happy to have you. I've watched you for a long time on MTV, and you were just great.

ALTSCHUL: Thanks, Connie. CHUNG: OK. And that's Sunday, right? "CNN PRESENTS," 8:00 p.m. Big hour.

Stay with us. We've got the newest revelations from Princess Diana's butler about royal life behind palace doors. Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHUNG: What a week for the Brits. A stunning week. Full of royal revelations and feuding families.

No sooner had Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell gotten himself off the hook of theft charges, with more than a little help from the queen, he sold his story for big bucks to the British press, and that unleashed a torrent of torrid tabloid headlines.

Wednesday, day one, the story that the queen had warned him about unknown enemies in the country. Day two -- Thursday, Burrell accuses the Spencers of hypocrisy, shunning Diana in life, embracing her after her death. And today, what they called the final insult, Burrell's claim that Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, replaced the royal flag on Diana's coffin with the Spencer flag out of spite. Ouch! Then today an excerpt from his first interview since the scandals broke.

Burrell discussed why he has criticized the Spencers so harshly.

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BURRELL: I think perhaps the family was just dysfunctional. It's difficult to say. From a very early age the princess had had a difficult life living in a huge stately home with parents who were busy doing other things, away at boarding school. Life wasn't easy for her from the very beginning.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHUNG: Robert Jobson is the author of "Diana: Closely Guarded Secret," and joins us tonight from London.

Thank you so much for being with us, Robert. Tell us, do you know the truth about which flag is on Diana's coffin? Because Earl Spencer says it's not true that he had it replaced.

ROBERT JOBSON, AUTHOR, "DIANA: CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET": Well, on this one I believe Earl Spencer. I've spoken to people at Althorp today where Diana is buried, and I think the butler is running out of stories to tell for the amount of money that he's been paid. And he's obviously dredging up all sorts of, as Ken Wolf, my co-author with the book I wrote, is best-selling fiction, I think it's best described. I think this is complete non-sense and totally unfair.

CHUNG: It's gotten so ugly now. I mean, I'm wondering if the Brits are for or against the butler.

JOBSON: Well, I think it's about 50-50 at the moment. I'm not for or against him either way, really. I think the butler, he got off the charges, but he didn't get cleared by a jury, it was done with sort of dodgy deal backstairs, deal between lawyers which nobody really likes.

And I'm sure even Paul Burrell himself would have preferred to have been acquitted by a jury. But the queen's intervention has left everybody slightly worried about what's going on here. They don't quite understand how the British legal system has been left in such turmoil, and also, more importantly, how the monarchy has been looking pretty shabby as a result of all this fiasco.

CHUNG: Do you think that the queen's intervention actually is the reason why the butler hasn't been very critical of the Royals in fact sort of like a bribe?

JOBSON: I wouldn't say it was a bribe. I'd say that it's very convenient, isn't it, that he was just about to go in the witness box in which he could have made some serious allegations and as well as some serious revelations.

I mean, one of the things going on at the moment in Britain in the media as well is a statement was issued by Prince Charles's office, unprecedented statement, saying that he was not involved in a cover-up involving a gay sexual -- homosexual assault -- between two male members of staff at St. James's Palace. Extraordinary revelations. Extraordinary things to come out.

So it's now becoming really, really strange over here because people are saying, Well, what exactly is it that the royal family didn't want the butler to say in the witness box? But of course, this is serious in a way, Connie. Because 1 1/2 million pounds, around $2 million, has been spent on this trial and investigation, and Scotland Yard would not have investigated it if they didn't feel there was something to answer.

And of course, they did in fact investigate the rape allegations as well, which surfaced as a result of the Burrell investigation. But unfortunately, they didn't know anything about it until that happened, and now Charles is out issuing statements about he never covered anything up. Very murky business, and causing an awful lot of interest back here in London.

CHUNG: Well, so is the cover-up that hurts.

Now, one last question. Burrell has been criticized heavily for not returning the possessions that he had that belonged to Diana and not returning them to her children. Especially her personal correspondence with Prince William. Now he says he's going to return them, but why didn't he return hem in the first place?

JOBSON: Well, I can't answer it. I simply don't understand it. He had them for five years.

He claims he told the queen he had a few letters. Well, that doesn't explain one thing, Connie. Why didn't he tell Diana's mother and sister, who were, after all, were executors of the will, that he had them? And if he didn't tell them and didn't trust them, which is by implication, all this brouhaha that's going on now is clearly saying that, why didn't he go to the other executor, the Bishop of London, who after all is a man of God and perhaps should be more trustworthy, and tell him?

There isn't really a very good explanation. And of course, he didn't tell police he'd had this convenient conversation with the queen until a few days before he was due to go in the box.

CHUNG: It all..

JOBSON: There's an awful lot of questions unanswered still.

CHUNG: Yes, and it all smells terribly. Robert Jobson, thank you so much for being with us.

So it's been quite a week for Paul Burrell. He's just won the celebrity equivalent of the Super Bowl, cleared of charges, pocketed more than a half million for spilling his secrets.

What is he going to do next? Well, you can bet he's not going to Disney World. Stick around.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHUNG: We'll be right back with a peek at what Princess Diana's butler is doing next.

But first, we check out what your money is doing now. Here's tonight's "LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE" update.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LOU DOBBS, CNN HOST: I'm Lou Dobbs. The Dow Jones Industrials fell today but still managed another weekly gain. In fact, the fifth weekly gain for the Dow in a row. The Dow today lost 49 points. The Nasdaq dropped 17.

McDonald's today announced some job cuts and the closing of almost 200 of its restaurants.

Join us for "MONEYLINE" weeknights, 6:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT returns shortly.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHUNG: Before we go tonight, we need to raise this one question: what does a former royal butler do after he's become a media superstar by letting the nation peek behind palace doors?

Now, come on. This is the 21st Century. He gets his own TV show, of course.

CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson on the butler's future.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Royal butler, royal rock, royal tattletale, and now maybe king of the quiz shows.

Sequestered at a not-so-secret location in the U.K., former royal butler Paul Burrell is already planning his next move: Host of a quiz show called, and I'm not kidding here, "What The Butler Saw."

STEPHEN LEAHY, LODUS ENTERTAINMENT: He's obeying. The people like him. He's very, very, very, very good with members of the public, and he has a natural television charm.

ROBERTSON: Indeed the former butler has already hosted TV programs about stately homes and etiquette.

That practice and his public persona make him a shoo-in, according to this quiz show executive, now attempting to sell Burrell's new venture around television networks.

LEAHY: Paul could make a lot of money given success. But it has to be a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic for that to happen.

ROBERTSON: Millions of dollars if he's able enough to follow the ice queen of British quiz shows, Ann Robinson, across the Atlantic.

Royalty, like soon to be talk show host Fergie, formerly the duchess of York, it seems get treated, well, like royalty.

Burrell's backers are hoping enough of the royal connection will have rubbed off, making the former backroom servant an attractive commercial proposition with an on-screen Midas touch.

However, producers being producers, they're taking no chances.

LEAHY: Paul's going to need a lot of training for television to be a quiz show host. It's a different demand, obviously, than normal television would be. He's up for that. We will give him all the training he needs.

ROBERTSON (on-camera): Burrell's agent was the idea man behind the quiz show. However, with the former butler under contract it's impossible to gauge just how he feels about the new career.

For now at least his manager is doing all the talking, and he thinks he's struck the royal mint.

Nic Robertson, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CHUNG: On Monday, we'll show you more of Paul Burrell's interview, airing Sunday in Britain. And we'll meet the host of that program, who spoke with him. And coming up next on "LARRY KING LIVE": Tom Brokaw.

Hi, Tom.

For all of us at CNN, good night. Have a great weekend.

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