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Russian officials say Michael Lee White was a U.S. agent involved in the recent fighting between their troops and Georgia. They claim to have found the Army veteran's passport in the country. But in his cramped teacher's apartment thousands of kilometers away at a business college in Guangzhou, southern China, the American said he had never been to Georgia. When the five-day war was raging last month, White said, he was in his hometown of Austin, Texas, caring for his sick father.

Michael Lee White poses at the Guangdong University of Business Studies.

The CIA on Wednesday denied that White was working for the U.S. intelligence agency. "While we do not as a rule confirm or deny employment with the agency, in this case, any suggestion that Michael Lee White is a CIA officer is wrong," said Marie Harf, a CIA spokeswoman. White's name popped up Aug. 28 as Russian officials were suggesting that Americans directly supported Georgia's Aug. 8 assault on South Osset...

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