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US ex-spy says he was a triple-agent who sold secrets to China in order to flush out real enemy agents
Former CIA officer Kevin Mallory is set to go on trial after being accused of meeting with Chinese spies and arranging to hand over US intelligence documents for thousands of dollars
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Kevin Mallory, a former CIA officer, admits he met with Chinese spies. He admits he planned a covert meeting with one of the operatives, that he handed over US intelligence documents and that he accepted thousands of dollars.
Federal prosecutors call it espionage. But the Virginia man, who for years held a top-secret clearance, says it was no crime – he says it was a ruse intended to out the spies to US authorities.
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On Tuesday, Mallory goes on trial in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where a jury will decide which story they believe.
Mallory, 61, of Leesburg, Virginia, is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker who spent two decades working in US intelligence. Public defenders Geremy Kamens and Todd Richman say he used that experience to ensnare two Chinese intelligence operatives who approached him as staff members for a Shanghai think tank.
“He sent what he thought was worthless information to keep his Chinese contacts interested in him until the CIA would meet with him,” the defence lawyers wrote in one court filing.
Prosecutors say that, on the contrary, Mallory’s plan was to cash in on his covert knowledge to get himself out of debt. If he did not share everything he knew, they argue in court filings, it was only because he was holding out for better pay. And if he was somewhat open with old colleagues at the CIA, it was only to cover his tracks.
He “was seeking to develop a long-term, financially profitable relationship,” prosecutors John Gibbs and Jennifer Kennedy Gellie said in one motion.
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Mallory is one of two former CIA officers accused in Alexandria federal court of working with Chinese intelligence. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, is set to go to trial in February on similar charges. Prosecutors say Lee, like Mallory, was co-opted by Chinese spies when his post-government career was foundering.
Mallory served in the military from 1977 to 2011, on active duty for the first decade and as a reservist after. According to his defence lawyers, he was kidnapped and seriously wounded while serving in Iraq in 2005.
He also spent years in the intelligence world, working as a covert case officer for the CIA from 1990 to 1996, for the defence Intelligence Agency from 2007 to 2010, and at various government agencies and defence contractors in between. Since 2012 he has run his own consulting business.
Prosecutors say that business was failing though, and Mallory’s only income in 2017 was the US$25,000 he was paid by the Chinese spies.
Court filings say Mallory was contacted by one of those spies through the networking site LinkedIn in February 2017. Richard Yang presented himself as a recruiter for the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, a think tank prosecutors describe as in part a cover for government spies. In March, Mallory went to Shanghai and met Yang and his boss, Michael Yang.
Ex-CIA officer Jerry Lee pleads not guilty in spy trial
Before that trip, according to court filings, Mallory asked Michael Yang for a mobile phone, saying he might bring information on a memory card. Mallory told Yang to put the phone in a double-sealed envelope, and to initial around the seals before leaving it for him at his hotel.
He emailed Yang three documents he had scanned at a FedEx store in Virginia that were not classified but were government documents related to intelligence.
“I will look for a person who has a newspaper under their left arm with keys in their left hand,” Mallory wrote, according to the filings. “Please find a private place that we can meet one another for a few minutes.”
The Chinese contacts paid Mallory US$10,000 in cash on that trip, according to prosecutors, and for his hotel and flights. Mallory did not declare the cash to customs when he returned.
On another trip the following month, Mallory was given a Samsung phone and paid US$15,000, according to the court filings. In May, he sent two more documents that have been determined to contain classified information.
Prosecutors say he even lied to the Chinese and claimed the US$15,000 was seized at the American border, asking them to replace it. He promised to deliver more documents, prosecutors added.
“Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid for it,” he said in one message, according to court filings.
Yet all along, Mallory was also reaching out to former contacts at the CIA, and he told them he had been approached by Chinese intelligence.
Former CIA officer accused of spying for China denied bail
“I’ve been over their [sic] again, and I keep getting banged on,” he wrote in one text message, according to court filings. “In the past I suspected who they are and didn’t really know but this time they were even more suspicious with me.”
In May 2017, Mallory sat down with a CIA agent, revealing that he had met intelligence agents in Shanghai and that he had been given a phone. He said he would meet again and bring the phone to be examined.
The next meeting was two weeks later. Instead of CIA officers, Mallory was met by two FBI agents.
He let the agents copy the phone. But according to his indictment, Mallory was surprised when messages he had sent and received appeared, saying he thought the phone was set up to delete all previous history.
He also lied, prosecutors say, claiming he had given the Chinese only unclassified white papers on policy in exchange for the US$25,000.
From jail, Mallory asked his wife and son in Chinese to look for the memory card he had bought. FBI agents had found it wrapped in foil in a shoe in his wardrobe; eight documents containing classified information were on it, according to court papers, including the two given to the Chinese.
But Mallory said then and argues now that the documents he did hand over were to string the operatives along.
Ex-CIA agent ‘went from spying to investigating counterfeit cigarettes in Hong Kong’
He believed the information he gave “was essentially worthless,” his lawyers argue in one filing, while he withheld his knowledge of “several highly classified and sensitive projects that would be of enormous interest and value to the People’s Republic of China.”
In one document Mallory added false classification markings, according to his lawyers, and another contained “virtually illegible handwritten notes” that were not classified.
Prosecutors say they will call witnesses from intelligence agencies who will say they disagree with Mallory’s characterisation.
In court filings, defence lawyers say Mallory’s own expert on classification, a 27-year veteran of the CIA named Harry P. Cooper Jnr, is being intimidated. A senior lawyer for the CIA Office of General Counsel called Cooper, they say, to remind him of his obligation not to reveal classified information if he testifies for the defence.
This is not the first time Mallory has been accused of handing over classified information. According to an inspector general’s report, Mallory shared details on sources with a defence contractor in 2010 while trying to launch a career outside government.
China ‘gave ex-CIA agent US$100,000 and promised to take care of him’
Mallory had been suspended by the defence Intelligence Agency for “performance issues” when he started consulting without telling the government, according to the report.
Mallory denied the transgression, saying he had only “spoken in generalities” to the contractor. His security clearance was revoked and he resigned.
Mallory has been active in the Montgomery Chinese Branch of the Mormon church. He and his wife, who was born in Taiwan, have three children.
“I have always known Kevin to be a man of integrity,” wrote fellow church member Benjamin Tsai in a letter to the court. “He is fiercely loyal to His country and to His God.”
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: i was trying to set up chinese, ex-spy claims
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...mer-cia-officer-charged-with-spying-for-china
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Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China
May 9, 20182:12 AM ET
Scott Neuman
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This 2017 photo shows the man on the right, identified by local Hong Kong media as former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee, standing in front of a member of security at the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" painting at the Christie's showroom in Hong Kong.
Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
An ex-CIA officer arrested in January at New York's John F. Kennedy airport has been charged with conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of China years after FBI agents turned up notebooks containing classified information in a search of his hotel room.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had a top-secret clearance and worked as a field agent for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1994 until 2007. He was living in Hong Kong at the time of his arrest, and had apparently been the target of an FBI investigation since 2012, when agents searching a Honolulu hotel room discovered handwritten notes on "asset meeting, operational meeting locations, operational phone numbers, true names of assets, and covert facilities" pertaining to China, according to a court affidavit.
After leaving the CIA, Lee worked for Japan Tobacco International, formed his own company and later joined Christie's auction house in Hong Kong, The South China Morning Post reports.
It is not known why the FBI waiting so long after uncovering the notebooks to arrest Lee; however, it is also not clear how frequently he traveled to the U.S., where his eventual arrest took place.
The charges on Tuesday also included two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to U.S. national defense. He faces a maximum of life in prison.
"The allegations in this case are troubling," said Tracy Doherty-McCormick, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. "Conspiring with foreign agents poses a real and serious threat toward our national security."
Lee's attorney, Edward MacMahon, denies the charges: "Mr. Lee is not a Chinese spy," he said after his client's initial court appearance in February. "He is a loyal American who loves his country."
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The New York Times has written that the information in Lee's notebooks is thought to have been used by Beijing to dismantle U.S. spy operations and identify informants inside China.
Two year before the FBI searched his hotel room, the CIA had begun "losing its informants in China" to the tune, eventually of more than a dozen killed or imprisoned.
"Some intelligence officials believed that a mole inside the C.I.A. was exposing its roster of informants. Others thought that the Chinese government had hacked the C.I.A.'s covert communications used to talk to foreign sources of information," according to the Times.
The Associated Press reports:
"The indictment alleges that three years after Lee left the CIA in 2007, two Chinese intelligence officers approached him and offered to pay him for information, including documents on U.S. defense, until at least 2011.
"The Chinese intelligence officers allegedly provided Lee with email addresses so they could communicate covertly. The indictment alleges that Lee made 'numerous unexplained cash deposits, and repeatedly lied to the U.S. government during voluntary interviews when asked about travel to China and his actions overseas.' "
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-charges-former-cia-agent-with-spying-for-china
US charges former CIA agent with spying for China
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) logo in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. PHOTO: AFP
Published
May 9, 2018, 10:40 am SGT
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced on Tuesday (May 8) it had indicted a former CIA operative for spying for China, in a case that could be tied to the dramatic collapse of the CIA's China network eight years ago.
Three years after he left the CIA in 2007, Jerry Chun Shing Lee took money from Chinese intelligence officers in exchange for information "relating to the national defence of the United States", the Justice Department said.
Lee, 53, a naturalised US citizen who was at the time resident in Hong Kong, was given information requests by the Chinese agents and hid the cash payments he received.
He was arrested in January. According to a warrant made public at the time, FBI agents had discovered in Lee's luggage, during a court-authorised search in 2012, notebooks with the names, contacts and other details on covert CIA employees and informants.
In voluntary interviews with FBI agents in 2012, Lee, who spent 14 years at the CIA, admitted preparing a classified document for the Chinese agents.
But nearly six years elapsed before he was arrested.
Lee was charged on Tuesday with one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defence information to aid a foreign government, and two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defence.
Officials have not said why it took so long to bring charges against Lee, nor detailed what materials he gave to the Chinese agents.
But the case takes place amid widespread concern in the US intelligence community that Beijing has been able to cripple their operations in China.
The New York Times reported last year that starting in 2010, to the end of 2012, the Chinese killed "at least a dozen" sources the CIA had inside China and imprisoned six or more others.
A hunt for a "mole" in the agency led to one person, a "former operative" now living elsewhere in Asia, the Times said. But there was not enough information to arrest him.
But others in the agency blamed sloppy work and not a mole, the Times added.
http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2018-05-30/doc-ihcffhsv4009325.shtml
美前特工被控向中国泄密 申辩称是我给中国人下套
2018年05月30日 08:18 海外网
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原标题：被控向中国泄密 美前特工离奇申辩：我给中国人下套
“他承认曾秘密会见中国间谍，把美国的情报文件给对方并接受了几千美元。检方将这称为间谍罪，他自己却称，这一切都是计谋，目的是将中国间谍暴露给美国政府。” 据《华盛顿邮报》29日报道，因涉嫌向中国提供情报，美国前特工凯文·马洛里去年被反间谍机构逮捕并起诉，他在当地时间29日将接受陪审团审判。法庭公布庭审文件揭示了案件一些离奇细节。
据报道，61岁的马洛里说一口流利的普通话，妻子是台湾人。他曾在美军服役，在伊拉克被捕，在中情局等美国多个情报机构工作过。美国FBI确认，马洛里有接触美国最高机密的安全许可，直到2012年离开政府。
法庭文件显示，马洛里的代理律师表示，马洛里在与中国间谍联系期间，同时也与他在情报界的前同事们保持联系，告知他们发生的一切。“我的当事人认为，他交给中国情报人员并无价值的情报，目的是让中国情报人员持续对他感兴趣，直到让中情局知道。”
美国检方对这一说辞不以为然。他们认为，马洛里是想用自己掌握的秘密情报换钱还债，他自己开的公司亏损，2017年唯一的收入就是“中国间谍”支付的2.5万美元。马洛里没有将掌握的重要情报和盘托出，是因为他想卖更好的价钱；马洛里希望中情局了解他与中国人的接触，目的只是掩饰自己的不轨行为。“爱国者还是双面间谍？”《华尔街日报》称，一旦被定罪，马洛里至少面临30年监禁。（王逸）
原标题：《被控向中国泄密，美国前特工离奇申辩：我是给中国人下了套》
US ex-spy says he was a triple-agent who sold secrets to China in order to flush out real enemy agents
Former CIA officer Kevin Mallory is set to go on trial after being accused of meeting with Chinese spies and arranging to hand over US intelligence documents for thousands of dollars
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 29 May, 2018, 4:20am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 29 May, 2018, 9:57pm
Comments: 8
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No more James Bond? Britain’s MI6 wants mums to become spies
24 May 2018
Kevin Mallory, a former CIA officer, admits he met with Chinese spies. He admits he planned a covert meeting with one of the operatives, that he handed over US intelligence documents and that he accepted thousands of dollars.
Federal prosecutors call it espionage. But the Virginia man, who for years held a top-secret clearance, says it was no crime – he says it was a ruse intended to out the spies to US authorities.
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On Tuesday, Mallory goes on trial in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where a jury will decide which story they believe.
Mallory, 61, of Leesburg, Virginia, is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker who spent two decades working in US intelligence. Public defenders Geremy Kamens and Todd Richman say he used that experience to ensnare two Chinese intelligence operatives who approached him as staff members for a Shanghai think tank.
“He sent what he thought was worthless information to keep his Chinese contacts interested in him until the CIA would meet with him,” the defence lawyers wrote in one court filing.
Prosecutors say that, on the contrary, Mallory’s plan was to cash in on his covert knowledge to get himself out of debt. If he did not share everything he knew, they argue in court filings, it was only because he was holding out for better pay. And if he was somewhat open with old colleagues at the CIA, it was only to cover his tracks.
He “was seeking to develop a long-term, financially profitable relationship,” prosecutors John Gibbs and Jennifer Kennedy Gellie said in one motion.
US man may face execution ‘for sending secrets to Chinese spies’
Mallory is one of two former CIA officers accused in Alexandria federal court of working with Chinese intelligence. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, is set to go to trial in February on similar charges. Prosecutors say Lee, like Mallory, was co-opted by Chinese spies when his post-government career was foundering.
Mallory served in the military from 1977 to 2011, on active duty for the first decade and as a reservist after. According to his defence lawyers, he was kidnapped and seriously wounded while serving in Iraq in 2005.
He also spent years in the intelligence world, working as a covert case officer for the CIA from 1990 to 1996, for the defence Intelligence Agency from 2007 to 2010, and at various government agencies and defence contractors in between. Since 2012 he has run his own consulting business.
Prosecutors say that business was failing though, and Mallory’s only income in 2017 was the US$25,000 he was paid by the Chinese spies.
Court filings say Mallory was contacted by one of those spies through the networking site LinkedIn in February 2017. Richard Yang presented himself as a recruiter for the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, a think tank prosecutors describe as in part a cover for government spies. In March, Mallory went to Shanghai and met Yang and his boss, Michael Yang.
Ex-CIA officer Jerry Lee pleads not guilty in spy trial
Before that trip, according to court filings, Mallory asked Michael Yang for a mobile phone, saying he might bring information on a memory card. Mallory told Yang to put the phone in a double-sealed envelope, and to initial around the seals before leaving it for him at his hotel.
He emailed Yang three documents he had scanned at a FedEx store in Virginia that were not classified but were government documents related to intelligence.
“I will look for a person who has a newspaper under their left arm with keys in their left hand,” Mallory wrote, according to the filings. “Please find a private place that we can meet one another for a few minutes.”
The Chinese contacts paid Mallory US$10,000 in cash on that trip, according to prosecutors, and for his hotel and flights. Mallory did not declare the cash to customs when he returned.
On another trip the following month, Mallory was given a Samsung phone and paid US$15,000, according to the court filings. In May, he sent two more documents that have been determined to contain classified information.
Prosecutors say he even lied to the Chinese and claimed the US$15,000 was seized at the American border, asking them to replace it. He promised to deliver more documents, prosecutors added.
“Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid for it,” he said in one message, according to court filings.
Yet all along, Mallory was also reaching out to former contacts at the CIA, and he told them he had been approached by Chinese intelligence.
Former CIA officer accused of spying for China denied bail
“I’ve been over their [sic] again, and I keep getting banged on,” he wrote in one text message, according to court filings. “In the past I suspected who they are and didn’t really know but this time they were even more suspicious with me.”
In May 2017, Mallory sat down with a CIA agent, revealing that he had met intelligence agents in Shanghai and that he had been given a phone. He said he would meet again and bring the phone to be examined.
The next meeting was two weeks later. Instead of CIA officers, Mallory was met by two FBI agents.
He let the agents copy the phone. But according to his indictment, Mallory was surprised when messages he had sent and received appeared, saying he thought the phone was set up to delete all previous history.
He also lied, prosecutors say, claiming he had given the Chinese only unclassified white papers on policy in exchange for the US$25,000.
From jail, Mallory asked his wife and son in Chinese to look for the memory card he had bought. FBI agents had found it wrapped in foil in a shoe in his wardrobe; eight documents containing classified information were on it, according to court papers, including the two given to the Chinese.
But Mallory said then and argues now that the documents he did hand over were to string the operatives along.
Ex-CIA agent ‘went from spying to investigating counterfeit cigarettes in Hong Kong’
He believed the information he gave “was essentially worthless,” his lawyers argue in one filing, while he withheld his knowledge of “several highly classified and sensitive projects that would be of enormous interest and value to the People’s Republic of China.”
In one document Mallory added false classification markings, according to his lawyers, and another contained “virtually illegible handwritten notes” that were not classified.
Prosecutors say they will call witnesses from intelligence agencies who will say they disagree with Mallory’s characterisation.
In court filings, defence lawyers say Mallory’s own expert on classification, a 27-year veteran of the CIA named Harry P. Cooper Jnr, is being intimidated. A senior lawyer for the CIA Office of General Counsel called Cooper, they say, to remind him of his obligation not to reveal classified information if he testifies for the defence.
This is not the first time Mallory has been accused of handing over classified information. According to an inspector general’s report, Mallory shared details on sources with a defence contractor in 2010 while trying to launch a career outside government.
China ‘gave ex-CIA agent US$100,000 and promised to take care of him’
Mallory had been suspended by the defence Intelligence Agency for “performance issues” when he started consulting without telling the government, according to the report.
Mallory denied the transgression, saying he had only “spoken in generalities” to the contractor. His security clearance was revoked and he resigned.
Mallory has been active in the Montgomery Chinese Branch of the Mormon church. He and his wife, who was born in Taiwan, have three children.
“I have always known Kevin to be a man of integrity,” wrote fellow church member Benjamin Tsai in a letter to the court. “He is fiercely loyal to His country and to His God.”
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: i was trying to set up chinese, ex-spy claims
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...mer-cia-officer-charged-with-spying-for-china
America
Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China
May 9, 20182:12 AM ET
Scott Neuman
This 2017 photo shows the man on the right, identified by local Hong Kong media as former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee, standing in front of a member of security at the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" painting at the Christie's showroom in Hong Kong.
Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
An ex-CIA officer arrested in January at New York's John F. Kennedy airport has been charged with conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of China years after FBI agents turned up notebooks containing classified information in a search of his hotel room.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had a top-secret clearance and worked as a field agent for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1994 until 2007. He was living in Hong Kong at the time of his arrest, and had apparently been the target of an FBI investigation since 2012, when agents searching a Honolulu hotel room discovered handwritten notes on "asset meeting, operational meeting locations, operational phone numbers, true names of assets, and covert facilities" pertaining to China, according to a court affidavit.
After leaving the CIA, Lee worked for Japan Tobacco International, formed his own company and later joined Christie's auction house in Hong Kong, The South China Morning Post reports.
It is not known why the FBI waiting so long after uncovering the notebooks to arrest Lee; however, it is also not clear how frequently he traveled to the U.S., where his eventual arrest took place.
The charges on Tuesday also included two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to U.S. national defense. He faces a maximum of life in prison.
"The allegations in this case are troubling," said Tracy Doherty-McCormick, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. "Conspiring with foreign agents poses a real and serious threat toward our national security."
Lee's attorney, Edward MacMahon, denies the charges: "Mr. Lee is not a Chinese spy," he said after his client's initial court appearance in February. "He is a loyal American who loves his country."
The Two-Way
Ex-CIA Officer Arrested On Suspicion Of Exposing U.S. Spy Network In China
National Security
China's Spies
National Security
Former CIA Officer Arrested After Exposing U.S. Spy Network In China
The New York Times has written that the information in Lee's notebooks is thought to have been used by Beijing to dismantle U.S. spy operations and identify informants inside China.
Two year before the FBI searched his hotel room, the CIA had begun "losing its informants in China" to the tune, eventually of more than a dozen killed or imprisoned.
"Some intelligence officials believed that a mole inside the C.I.A. was exposing its roster of informants. Others thought that the Chinese government had hacked the C.I.A.'s covert communications used to talk to foreign sources of information," according to the Times.
The Associated Press reports:
"The indictment alleges that three years after Lee left the CIA in 2007, two Chinese intelligence officers approached him and offered to pay him for information, including documents on U.S. defense, until at least 2011.
"The Chinese intelligence officers allegedly provided Lee with email addresses so they could communicate covertly. The indictment alleges that Lee made 'numerous unexplained cash deposits, and repeatedly lied to the U.S. government during voluntary interviews when asked about travel to China and his actions overseas.' "
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-charges-former-cia-agent-with-spying-for-china
US charges former CIA agent with spying for China
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) logo in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. PHOTO: AFP
Published
May 9, 2018, 10:40 am SGT
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced on Tuesday (May 8) it had indicted a former CIA operative for spying for China, in a case that could be tied to the dramatic collapse of the CIA's China network eight years ago.
Three years after he left the CIA in 2007, Jerry Chun Shing Lee took money from Chinese intelligence officers in exchange for information "relating to the national defence of the United States", the Justice Department said.
Lee, 53, a naturalised US citizen who was at the time resident in Hong Kong, was given information requests by the Chinese agents and hid the cash payments he received.
He was arrested in January. According to a warrant made public at the time, FBI agents had discovered in Lee's luggage, during a court-authorised search in 2012, notebooks with the names, contacts and other details on covert CIA employees and informants.
In voluntary interviews with FBI agents in 2012, Lee, who spent 14 years at the CIA, admitted preparing a classified document for the Chinese agents.
But nearly six years elapsed before he was arrested.
Lee was charged on Tuesday with one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defence information to aid a foreign government, and two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defence.
Officials have not said why it took so long to bring charges against Lee, nor detailed what materials he gave to the Chinese agents.
But the case takes place amid widespread concern in the US intelligence community that Beijing has been able to cripple their operations in China.
The New York Times reported last year that starting in 2010, to the end of 2012, the Chinese killed "at least a dozen" sources the CIA had inside China and imprisoned six or more others.
A hunt for a "mole" in the agency led to one person, a "former operative" now living elsewhere in Asia, the Times said. But there was not enough information to arrest him.
But others in the agency blamed sloppy work and not a mole, the Times added.
http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2018-05-30/doc-ihcffhsv4009325.shtml
美前特工被控向中国泄密 申辩称是我给中国人下套
2018年05月30日 08:18 海外网
0
原标题：被控向中国泄密 美前特工离奇申辩：我给中国人下套
“他承认曾秘密会见中国间谍，把美国的情报文件给对方并接受了几千美元。检方将这称为间谍罪，他自己却称，这一切都是计谋，目的是将中国间谍暴露给美国政府。” 据《华盛顿邮报》29日报道，因涉嫌向中国提供情报，美国前特工凯文·马洛里去年被反间谍机构逮捕并起诉，他在当地时间29日将接受陪审团审判。法庭公布庭审文件揭示了案件一些离奇细节。
据报道，61岁的马洛里说一口流利的普通话，妻子是台湾人。他曾在美军服役，在伊拉克被捕，在中情局等美国多个情报机构工作过。美国FBI确认，马洛里有接触美国最高机密的安全许可，直到2012年离开政府。
法庭文件显示，马洛里的代理律师表示，马洛里在与中国间谍联系期间，同时也与他在情报界的前同事们保持联系，告知他们发生的一切。“我的当事人认为，他交给中国情报人员并无价值的情报，目的是让中国情报人员持续对他感兴趣，直到让中情局知道。”
美国检方对这一说辞不以为然。他们认为，马洛里是想用自己掌握的秘密情报换钱还债，他自己开的公司亏损，2017年唯一的收入就是“中国间谍”支付的2.5万美元。马洛里没有将掌握的重要情报和盘托出，是因为他想卖更好的价钱；马洛里希望中情局了解他与中国人的接触，目的只是掩饰自己的不轨行为。“爱国者还是双面间谍？”《华尔街日报》称，一旦被定罪，马洛里至少面临30年监禁。（王逸）
原标题：《被控向中国泄密，美国前特工离奇申辩：我是给中国人下了套》
