PNN – The US Department of Justice announced that a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent confessed to spying for China and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing AFP, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Wednesday night that this person’s name is “Alexander Yuk Ching Ma”, who is originally from Hong Kong and has become an American citizen.
He is 71 years old and worked for the CIA from 1982 to 1989. Ma was arrested in August 2020 and pleaded guilty in May of this year.
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He admitted that he passed classified military information to the intelligence officers of China’s Shanghai Security Administration.
Court documents indicate that one of our relatives, who worked for the CIA from 1967 to 1983, was involved in this conspiracy. According to this sanad, the name of this person was not mentioned and he passed away.
The US Department of Justice added that these two individuals had top-secret security clearances.
The department said Ma and his accomplice met with agents of the Shanghai Security Bureau in Hong Kong in March 2001 and provided them with classified information in exchange for $50,000 in cash.