Chinese Agent: Gain Information and State Department

chinese agent: Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid, he told the Chinese agent in a 5 May 2017 message, according to The Guardian. US defense contractor caught with 16,500 in luggage is charged with spying for China Read more The fluent Mandarin speaker had served in the US army, then as a special agent for the security service of the state department, before becoming a covert case officer for the CIA. Mallory is one of several US officials with high-level security clearances arrested and charged over unsanctioned dealings with Chinese intelligence. Kevin Mallory, 62, was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US defence information to a Chinese intelligence agent for 25,000 during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017. The former defence intelligence agency official Ron Hansen faces 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in March to charges of attempting to sell classified information to China. And in the most significant case, on 1 May, the former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee pleaded guilty to spying for China. In April, a former diplomat Candace Marie Claiborne pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about money she received from Chinese intelligence agents in exchange for US documents. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.