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Anonymous ID: d8647e May 1, 2019, 4:13 p.m. No.6386782   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6871 >>6908 >>6947 >>7037 >>7150 >>7179 >>7204 >>7218 >>7260

HOLY SHIT guys..looks like another case of nothing happening..

 

Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Espionage

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-commit-espionage

 

"A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer pleaded guilty today to conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director for Counterintelligence John Brown of the FBI and Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement after Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III accepted the plea.

 

According to court documents, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, left the CIA in 2007 and began residing in Hong Kong. In April 2010, two Chinese intelligence officers (IOs) approached Lee and offered to pay him for national defense information he had acquired as a CIA case officer. The IOs also told Lee they had prepared for him a gift of $100,000 cash, and they offered to take care of him “for life” in exchange for his cooperation."

Anonymous ID: d8647e May 1, 2019, 4:20 p.m. No.6386871   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6908

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"“This is the third case in less than a year in which a former US intelligence officer has pled or been found guilty of conspiring with Chinese intelligence services to pass them national defense information,” said Assistant Attorney General Demers. “Every one of these cases is a tragic betrayal of country and colleagues. The National Security Division will continue to prosecute individuals like Lee who abuse their former access to classified information for financial gain while threatening the security of America. Many thanks to the agents, analysts and prosecutors whose work led to today’s outcome.”"

 

“Those Americans entrusted with our government’s most closely held secrets have a tremendous responsibility to safeguard that information,” said U.S. Attorney Terwilliger. “Instead of embracing that responsibility and honoring his commitment to not disclose national defense information, Lee sold out his country, conspired to become a spy for a foreign government, and then repeatedly lied to investigators about his conduct. This prosecution should serve as a warning to others who would compromise our nation’s secrets and betray our country’s trust. My thanks to the prosecutors, agents and our intelligence community partners for their terrific work on this important case.”