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Anonymous ID: 15e3ee Aug. 17, 2020, 1:13 p.m. No.10320826   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China; Disclosed "Substantial Amount Of Highly Classified" Info

 

The DOJ has charged a 15-year veteran of the CIA with selling US secrets to China - after he accidentally revealed his spying to the FBI, according to NBC News - which notes that "The method prosecutors said they used to get him to reveal the nature of his espionage was worthy of a spy novel itself."

 

 

Court documents said 67-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma of Honolulu was charged with violating U.S. espionage laws. Prosecutors said he joined the CIA in 1967 then served as a CIA officer until he retired from the agency in 1989. For part of that time he was assigned to work overseas in the East-Asia and Pacific region.

 

Twelve years after he retired, prosecutors said Monday that Ma met with at least five officers of China's Ministry of State Security in a Hong Kong hotel room, where he "disclosed a substantial amount of highly classified national defense information," including facts about the CIA's internal organization, methods for communicating covertly, and the identities of CIA officers and human assets. -NBC News

 

Following his departure from the agency, Ma became a Chinese linguist in the FBI's Honolulu field office, where he allegedly used his access to highly classified information to copy or photograph sensitive documents concerning the United States' guided missile and weapons systems, as well as other sensitive information he passed along to his Chinese handlers, according to the charging document.

 

Ma was caught after the FBI arranged a meeting with an undercover officer claiming to be from a CCP operative investigating "how Ma had been treated, including the amount he had been compensated" by the Chinese government.

 

The allegedly traitorous spook was captured on video counting $2,000 in cash given to him by the operative, who told Ma that it was to acknowledge his efforts for Beiing.

 

Ma, a Hong Kong native, said on tape that he "wanted 'the motherland' to succeed,' and admitted to providing classified information to China's Ministry of State Security."

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ex-cia-officer-charged-spying-china-disclosed-substantial-amount-highly-classified

Anonymous ID: 15e3ee Aug. 17, 2020, 1:15 p.m. No.10320836   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0895 >>1012

People Protest Against Strict Coronavirus Measures in Buenos Aires

 

According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Argentina has exceeded 261,000, with more than 5,000 deaths.

 

Watch a live broadcast from Buenos Aires, where people sceptical about strict coronavirus measures are gathering for a rally​ near the capital’s Obelisk.

 

The protesters want to demonstrate their objection to the prolonged coronavirus quarantine which has been introduced by President Alberto Fernandez to curb the spread of the virus.

 

People are also opposing government plans to carry out reforms aimed at bolstering the independence of the judiciary. Critics of these plans say it would help the former president and current Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to avoid the consequences of corruption allegations made against her, reportedly because one of her lawyers is on the commission advising the government on the reforms.

 

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202008171080197964-people-protest-against-strict-coronavirus-measures-in-buenos-aires-video/

Anonymous ID: 15e3ee Aug. 17, 2020, 1:18 p.m. No.10320867   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0895 >>1012

Israel Begins Reform Of Its Air Forces, Focused Towards Reinforced Northern Defenses

 

On August 13th, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published plans for the development of the Israeli Air Force in the coming years.

 

Air Force Commander, Major General Amikam Norkin, summed up the necessary work to improve the effectiveness of the Air Force and their training for the coming years.

 

Some of the points of the program are designed for a decade ahead, others are shorter-term.

 

The coronavirus pandemic, the deteriorating economic situation in Israel and in the world, as well as a general view of the strategic situation in the Middle East played an important role in the program.

 

As a result, it was decided to accelerate a number of plans for the future and implement them in the coming years.

 

The common goal of all these steps is to increase combat effectiveness on the one hand, save money and use resources more efficiently on the other.

 

https://southfront.org/israel-begins-reform-of-its-air-forces-focused-towards-reinforced-northern-defenses/