She also spoke of how FBI agents tapped communication lines, camped outside her family's home and monitored them continuously, sometimes using as many as 12 cars to tail her on a trip to the grocery store.

But perhaps the most difficult experience, Lee said, was visiting her father in jail.

"He was wearing a red prison suit, the ones for murderers and rapists, the worst kinds of people, and he was shackled... He was being treated like an animal," Lee said.

She added the experience has opened her eyes to the prevalence of racism in the United States, an issue introductory speaker Philip Heymann, Barr professor at Harvard Law School (HLS), touched on earlier in the discussion.

During the allotted question and answer period, many audience members applauded Lee and shared their own experiences and thoughts on discrimination.

Last night's forum, the first at Harvard concentrating on the Wen Ho Lee case, comes after a failed attempt last year to organize a forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP) about the case.

"There was a reluctance [on the IOP's part] to get involved because the issues were less clear then," said event organizer Sophia M. Chang, a third-year HLS and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student.