Sheesh... last week we had Candy Clairborne plead guilty to illegally working with China... now this...
Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Chinese Espionage Conspiracy
Former CIA operations officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit espionage for China in a case linked to the loss of numerous recruited CIA spies in China.
Lee, 54, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Hong Kong, supplied documents and information to Chinese intelligence officers from April 26, 2010, to Jan. 15, 2018 when he was arrested, according to court papers in the case.
This statement is interesting... in contrast with Biden saying China is not a threat.
The case is one of three Chinese espionage-related cases in recent months as part of a Trump administration crackdown on Beijing's intelligence operations.
The crackdown is working.
"This is the third case in less than a year in which a former U.S. intelligence officer has pled or been found guilty of conspiring with Chinese intelligence services to pass them national defense information," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. "Every one of these cases is a tragic betrayal of country and colleagues."
The two other cases of intelligence officials who spied for China include former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Ron Hanson, who pled guilty to spying for China in March, and former CIA officer Kevin Mallory, who was found guilty of espionage in June 2018.
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