Ex-CIA officer pleads guilty to conspiring to spy for China
Holly Ellyatt
A former CIA officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to pass U.S. defense and intelligence secrets to China, the Justice Department said on Wednesday, in the third such case in less than a year.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, was approached in 2010 by two Chinese intelligence officers who offered to pay him $100,000 and to take care of him “for life†for information he had acquired as a CIA officer, according to a Justice Department statement. Lee left the CIA in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were subsequently paid into Lee’s personal bank account between 2010 and 2013, according to the statement.
Read more at: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/ex-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-spy-for-china.html
The article says he could get life imprisonment.
