A former CIA case officer was sentenced to 19 years in prison this week for conspiring to provide sensitive US information to the Chinese government.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, worked for the agency for 13 years in several locations, and had intimate knowledge of its classified information and names of covert CIA officers in China.In May, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit espionage on behalf of the Chinese government. At the time, his defense team said he was not a Chinese spy.
These notes included, among other things, intelligence provided by CIA assets, true names of assets, operational meeting locations and phone numbers, and information about covert facilities," the Justice Department said in a statement. A cash offer and a promiseLee left the CIA in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong. That's where the two Chinese intelligence officers approached him three years later and offered to pay him for national defense information he'd acquired as a CIA case officer.
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