Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, who was arrested on Friday, is charged with conspiracy to communicate national defense information to aid a foreign government.
Washington Post: Ex-CIA officer accused of sharing American secrets with Chinese intelligence
U.S. authorities have arrested and charged a former CIA officer who also did contract work for the FBI with giving classified U.S. data to Chinese intelligence officials, including the identity of CIA officers, the covers they used, and information about their sources and operations, according to court documents unsealed Monday.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a naturalized U.S. citizen who worked for the CIA in the 1980s, was charged in federal court in Hawaii with conspiring to give up U.S. national defense information for nearly a decade.
In 2001, he was captured on video in a Hong Kong hotel room counting $50,000 in cash as he and a co-conspirator revealed sensitive CIA information to Chinese intelligence officials over three days of intense debriefing, according to an FBI affidavit.
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