CNN: 71-year-old ex-CIA officer pleads guilty to spying for China
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee has pleaded guilty to providing classified information to China. About it reports CNN with link to the country’s Ministry of Justice.
According to data provided by the Ministry of Justice, 71-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, who served in the CIA for seven years in the 1980s, engaged in espionage for the People’s Republic of China in 2001. In exchange for tens of thousands of dollars, he provided an unnamed Chinese intelligence associate with “a large amount of classified information about US national defense.”
It is noted that from 2004 to 2012, Yuk Ching Ma worked as a linguist at the FBI office in Honolulu. The FBI leadership, who knew about the ex-CIA employee’s contacts with Chinese intelligence, specifically hired him to make it easier to track his activities and contacts. “Under the terms of the parties’ plea agreement, Yuk Ching Ma must cooperate with the United States, including by participating in interrogations conducted by US government agencies,” the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
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If the court accepts the man’s plea at a hearing scheduled for September 11, he faces up to ten years in prison.
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