Posted on 05/25/2024 5:40:49 AM PDT by DFG
A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of spying for China for at least a decade pleaded guilty Friday in a federal courtroom in Honolulu.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 72, has been in custody since his arrest in August 2020. The Justice Department said in a court filing it amassed “a war chest of damning evidence” against him, including an hourlong video of Ma and an older relative — also a former CIA officer — providing classified information to intelligence officers with China’s Ministry of State Security in 2001.
The video shows Ma counting the $50,000 received from the Chinese agents for his service, prosecutors said.
During a sting operation, he accepted thousands of dollars in cash in exchange for past espionage activities, and he told an undercover FBI agent posing as a Chinese intelligence officer that he wanted to see the “motherland” succeed, prosecutors said.
The secrets he was accused of providing included information about CIA sources and assets, international operations, secure communication practices and operational tradecraft, charging documents said.
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Diversity is our strength...No?
Does this yuk fellow think he’s related to biden or something?
Unless they think he is worth Intel or a possible trade this should be execution , every time.
Traitors have almost always been treated such since Roman times.
The CIA might consider taking care of Soros rather than spying for the enemy. Oh, forgot, it’s those MAGA folks that are the enemy. I remember back when the CIA was on our side.
Yuk Ching Ma got some bad legal advice.
He could have scored hung juries and evidence appeals in Hard Left Honolulu every year for the rest of his life.
Plan One - demand that the CIA release all kinds of highly classified documents to support his case.
It would take ten years of appeals just to start the first trial.
Demand home confinement and an ankle monitor while all the appeals go through the courts.
Whoda’ thunk a Chinaman would spy for China?
Oh, is this where Feinstein’s chauffeur went to after it was finally revealed that he worked with the CCP for decades whilst driving that old bag around?
Only fair to give him the same sentence a Chinese court would issue in a reversal of roles. 7.62 mm shot to the back of his head in front of a ditch.
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