(Washington) – A former CIA officer and linguist contract was accused of spying for the FBI for China, including through tradecraft and communicate information about the sources of Chinese intelligence agents who had co-opted the open after Monday. But Alexander Yuk Ching, 67, last week was arrested after an undercover operation, say prosecutors who accepted thousands of dollars in cash in return for its activities of the past espionage. He said a police officer who posed as an official of the Chinese secret service that he wanted to see the “motherland” to succeed and that he enthusiastically after the pandemic subsided crown for help resume China, said the prosecutor. “The path of Chinese espionage is long and sad, sprinkled with former intelligence officers who betray their colleagues to support them his liberal-democratic values and the country’s authoritarian communist regime,” prosecutor John Demers, senior officials the national security of the Justice Department said in a statement. An FBI affidavit accuses But, that these secrets in 1982 he worked for the CIA until 1989, the secrets of Telltale government to at least five agents of Chinese intelligence Hong Kong hotel room for a three-day period in March 2001, They include information on the origins and activities of the CIA, international operations, secure practical communication practices and operational tradecraft. Prosecutors say hold meetings with Chinese officials mA relatives and colleagues of the CIA who was not named in the court documents, and that was not loaded because officials say the now 85 years suffering from advanced cognitive disorders and debilitating. make a video recording showing the structure of men payments totaling $50,000 received for the information provided, authorities said. Up to this point, says the FBI, but had become a resource compromised the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the intelligence of value and interest to the Chinese government collects – a relationship that endured for years and transferred to Ma next job . But it stayed with officials of the Chinese intelligence contact after he joined the FBI as a linguist of the contract in 2004, when he used his work computer to copy the search to images of documents missiles and weapons technology . Over the next few years, prosecutors say, repeats a digital camera in an FBI safe workspace and translation photographed documents brought and also stole secret recordings that he took with him to Asia, it was claimed. Some made aware of the trip But, the prosecutor said. In 2006 he returned home to Honolulu after a trip to Shanghai and found $20,000 and carry a set of golf clubs that had not previously own. The Department of Justice said that Ma and his co-conspirators also officers of Chinese intelligence to identify suspects helped human sources. At one point, according to an FBI affidavit But he received an e-mail from a Chinese intelligence contact that a photograph of five puppies as Appendix sitting on a park bench. The FBI believes that the photo was meant to prompt But for his relatives and former colleagues of the CIA organize information in five people being informants were suspected. The survey undercover FBI took shape in January 2019, when an official statement as an official of the Chinese Secret Service Honolulu But in his office and showed him a video of the Annual Meeting 2001 in Hong Kong and asked for help to identify the people who were present. But apparently convinced that the officer was a real undercover intelligence officer, provided that the aid and again met with the official two months later, when he accepted $2,000 for his work on Chinese names , according to court documents. He offered to do more work for China, said the prosecutor’s office and met again last week with the undercover agent to accept a red envelope with $2,000 and to say that he wanted to be successful, ” The fatherland”. A naturalized US citizen born in Hong Kong, but was in federal court in Honolulu commissioned defense conspired to gather information to a foreign nation and to communicate. It is life in prison if convicted, and is doing for his first court appearance Tuesday. A phone message left as a lawyer listed on the federal defenders But it was not immediately returned Monday. Another former officer of the CIA, Jerry Lee Chun Shing, was convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage to 19 years in prison in November last year, say prosecutors, received more than $840,000 from China, the names of human resources and knowledge is spread over system since. Image copyright by Charles Ommanney-Getty Images
Former CIA officer charged with giving China issues
