Former CIA Agent Arrested on Suspicion of Collusion With the Chinese Government
January 17, 2018
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A former CIA officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, has been charged with "unlawful retention of national defense information."
Lee allegedly had in his possession notebooks containing the details and identities of current CIA operatives and is suspected of identifying both spy recruits and CIA agents to the Chinese government.
The New York Times reports:
A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The collapse of the spy network was one of the American government’s worst intelligence failures in recent years.