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Will an Espionage Act arrest end a years-long China mole hunt in CIA? - Hot Air
the Department of Justice will charge Jerry Chun Shing Lee only with an 18 USC 793 violation for unlawful retention of classified material when he appears in a Virginia court today. However, suspicions of a mole inside the CIA have people guessing that the feds may have finally found their double agent
A former CIA officer suspected of possibly giving secrets to China is charged Wednesday with retaining classified information. Jerry Chun Shing Lee is accused of unlawfully having notebooks containing national defense information https://t.co/QFtwawi9qu pic.twitter.com/T4dnSbUII2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 17, 2018
Lee has been a suspect in a long-running probe to determine if a mole inside the U.S. intelligence community had led to the deaths of a number of CIA assets in China, according to people with knowledge of the probe, which was first reported by the New York Times. He has not been charged with any crimes in connection with those deaths.
The NYT report came out in May of last year, as China’s media celebrated the news that their intelligence agency had brutally stamped out the CIA’s informant ring. The round-up took place years ago, however, between 2010 and 2012. That was before China began successfully hacking into US government computer systems such as at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
the Department of Justice will charge Jerry Chun Shing Lee only with an 18 USC 793 violation for unlawful retention of classified material when he appears in a Virginia court today. However, suspicions of a mole inside the CIA have people guessing that the feds may have finally found their double agent
A former CIA officer suspected of possibly giving secrets to China is charged Wednesday with retaining classified information. Jerry Chun Shing Lee is accused of unlawfully having notebooks containing national defense information https://t.co/QFtwawi9qu pic.twitter.com/T4dnSbUII2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 17, 2018
Lee has been a suspect in a long-running probe to determine if a mole inside the U.S. intelligence community had led to the deaths of a number of CIA assets in China, according to people with knowledge of the probe, which was first reported by the New York Times. He has not been charged with any crimes in connection with those deaths.
The NYT report came out in May of last year, as China’s media celebrated the news that their intelligence agency had brutally stamped out the CIA’s informant ring. The round-up took place years ago, however, between 2010 and 2012. That was before China began successfully hacking into US government computer systems such as at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)