Ex-US DIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage for China - DoJ

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement on Friday that former US Defence Intelligence officer Ron Rockwell Hansen has pleaded guilty in connection with his attempted "transmission of national information" to Beijing.

According to the DoJ, Hansen, 58, retired from the US Army as a Warrant officer with a background in signals intelligence and human intelligence. Moreover, Hansen speaks fluently Chinese and Russian. DIA hired Hansen in 2006 as "a civilian intelligence case officer".

According to Justice Department, Hansen has admitted that in early 2014 "agents of a Chinese intelligence service targeted Hansen for recruitment and he began meeting with them regularly in China. During those meetings, the Chinese agents described to Hansen the type of information that would interest the Chinese intelligence service. During the course of his relationship with the agents of the Chinese intelligence service, Hansen received hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for information he provided them, including information he gathered at various industry conferences".

Notably, that Hansen has attempted to provide classified information for Chinese intelligence that "related to United States military readiness in a particular region and was closely held by the United States government", accoding to the DoJ.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201903151073284294-usa-china-intelligence-officer-espionage-trial/

New Zealand PM says 'gun laws will change' after mosque shooting

The New Zealand government is looking at banning semi-automatic weapons following the killing of 49 worshipers at two Christchurch mosques, the prime minister said. She did not go into details.

The suspected gunman got a “category A” firearms license in 2017, and began stockpiling weapons legally at that point, PM Jacinda Ardern told reporters on Saturday. The “mere fact” that this happened means people will want to see a change to gun laws, and she was committed to supporting that, she added.

All of the suspected shooter’s five weapons were legally acquired, according to the PM.

Our gun laws will change.

The primary suspect was an Australian citizen who “travelled sporadically to New Zealand and stayed for varied amount of time,” Ardern told reporters. “I would not describe him as a long-term resident.”

He was not on a government watch list in either New Zealand or Australia.

The shooter live-streamed the rampage on Facebook, killing 49 people and wounding more than 40 at two mosques before getting arrested by police. Shortly before the attack, he published a 73-page ‘manifesto’ in which he vowed “revenge” against Muslim “invaders” and said he was inspired by Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.

Currently, New Zealand restricts the purchase of “military-style semi-automatic weapons” to those 18 or older. The minimum legal age to buy a firearm is 16. Anyone the police consider to be “fit and proper” can get a firearms license – provided they pass a background check involving criminal and medical records. Registration of individual weapons is not required.

https://www.rt.com/news/453965-new-zealand-gun-law-mosque/

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