WASHINGTON, United States — A former officer for the CIA and then the FBI was charged in federal court in Hawaii Monday with selling US secrets to China, including disclosing the identities of US informants in China. The Justice Department said Ma was arrested on August 14, but only unsealed the indictment on Monday. He and his relative were also asked to identify from pictures possible US agents and informants in China during this period, according to the charges. The case though is the latest of several brought against US government employees who sold secrets to China. Last November Jerry Chun Shing Lee, who worked for the CIA from 1994 to 2007, was sentenced to 19 years in prison for giving US secrets to Chinese intelligence.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 17, 2020 21:45 UTC