Posted on 08/17/2020 5:30:11 PM PDT by bitt
The method prosecutors said they used to get Alexander Yuk Ching Ma to reveal the nature of his espionage was worthy of a spy novel itself.
A 15-year veteran of the CIA was charged Monday with selling U.S. secrets to China then unwittingly admitting his spying to the FBI.
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.
"The trail of Chinese espionage is long and, sadly, strewn with former American intelligence officers who betrayed their colleagues, their country and its liberal democratic values to support an authoritarian communist regime," said John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security. "To the Chinese intelligence services, these individuals are expendable. To us, they are sad but urgent reminders of the need to stay vigilant."
After leaving the CIA, investigators said, Ma got a job as a Chinese linguist in the FBI's Honolulu field office. He used his new job and security clearance to copy or photograph classified documents related to guided missile and weapons systems and other U.S. secrets and passed
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I didn't know you could join the CIA when you were 14 years old.
The only thing worthy of a spy novel is CIA incompetence and media-Hollywood KGB writing the books of CIA spy stories to flatter these idiots in government so they shut up.
Maybe he’ll be a conduit to take down Clinton, Obama and Biden.
Espionage like this is mighty serious.
Surprised NBC is reporting this.
Question is he a Democrat? Sarc
GHWB let in a bunch of China-Lovers into the CIA under his reign.
China...not our friends
No quarter, no mercy.
Hang him at dawn.
And the FBI had these secrets! Why?
China is Asshoe!
Democrats have been selling our secrets to China and Russia and other countries, since forever.
So, when will Biden and Bill Clinton and Hillary and Obama get arrested and prosecuted and imprisoned?
Never. : (
They're too important, don cha' know.
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