Last year he took his biggest gamble yet: simultaneously selling secrets to Chinese intelligence officers for $25,000 and exposing those spies to his old colleagues at the Central Intelligence Agency. On Friday, jurors in Alexandria federal court found the former CIA officer guilty of espionage and three related charges. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Mallory approached the CIA himself last year, saying he was being recruited by Chinese intelligence. Mallory sent Yang at least two documents, including a white paper summarizing an undercover operation he had proposed at DIA. “He was proposing to do something unique and sensitive,” testified Robert Ambrose, who oversaw such operations at DIA when Mallory worked there.

Source: Washington Post June 08, 2018 20:12 UTC