Woo Suk Hwang, the Korean veterinarian and erst-while "cloning king," has filed a legal complaint with authorities that some of his reported human cloned embryo stem cell lines were switched by someone else - but he's also been accused by his own university of intentional fabrication of the report in the first place.

The Seoul National University committee charged with investigating their celebrity researcher has determined that Hwang had only produced 2 - not 11 - stem cell lines at the time that his report was published in the journal, Science.

As I post tonight, I've been watching an old Robert Mitchum movie, "Foreign Intrigue." The 1956 story about blackmail and murder, all tied up in money, nationalism, and secrecy is less far fetched than the cloning intrique of 2005.