A former CIA agent was sentenced to ten years in prison on Wednesday.
Washington:
A former CIA officer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to spying for China, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, reached a plea deal with prosecutors in May in exchange for pleading guilty to conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to China, the DOJ said in a statement.
Ma, who worked for the CIA from 1982 to 1989, conspired with a now-deceased relative who was also employed by the CIA, the DOJ said. They were approached by Chinese intelligence officers in March 2001 and handed over “a large amount” of classified defense information in exchange for $50,000, the ministry said.
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