A former CIA agent has pleaded responsible to spying for China, the US Justice Division introduced Friday.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was born in 1952 in Hong Kong, moved to Hawaii at a younger age and have become a naturalized American. He admitted that in 2001 he handed over a major quantity of categorised US nationwide safety data in a gathering with Shanghai intelligence brokers, although he had not labored for the CIA for the earlier 12 years.
The assembly was reportedly organized by one other former CIA agent, a naturalized American initially from Shanghai. On the third day of contacts at a Hong Kong lodge, Chinese language brokers supplied “$50,000 in money, which Alexander Yuk Ching Ma counted,” in accordance with the US Justice Division briefing. The 2 males then “agreed to proceed aiding” Shanghai’s intelligence company.
In 2003 Ma was employed by the FBI in Hawaii to supply linguist companies. The FBI knew of Ma’s ties to Chinese language intelligence and recruited him to work in an remoted workplace “the place his actions might be monitored,” the US Division of Justice mentioned. Ma labored for the FBI till 2012.
The US Justice Division didn’t say how Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, who faces as much as 10 years in jail, was uncovered.
