Tens of thouseands of dollars was his price to sell out and betray his country to the Chinese Goverment.
Thanks to our FBI officers, they cought him on tape selling out to the other side.
I wish I could say this was a surprise, but as John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement: “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.”
Our friends at CNN have more on this story:
Federal prosecutors accused a former CIA officer of selling sensitive defense secrets to the Chinese government over a decade in an espionage case revealed in Hawaii on Monday.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma allegedly handed over information about the CIA’s personnel and tradecraft to Chinese intelligence and was given tens of thousands of dollars in return.
A naturalized US citizen born in Hong Kong, Ma, 67, told an undercover FBI agent posing as a Chinese intelligence officer earlier this month that he wanted “the motherland” to succeed, according to court documents.
Senior officials called Ma a traitor.“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,” John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement.
Ma joins a list of former intelligence officials accused by the US in recent years of spying on behalf of the Chinese.Tension between the two countries is peaking as the Trump administration has increasingly shamed Beijing for its alleged attempts to steal national security and trade secrets.
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