90 Miles From Tyranny : Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China; Disclosed "Substantial Amount Of Highly Classified" Info

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China; Disclosed "Substantial Amount Of Highly Classified" Info




The DOJ has charged a 15-year veteran of the CIA with selling US secrets to China - after he accidentally revealed his spying to the FBI, according to NBC News - which notes that "The method prosecutors said they used to get him to reveal the nature of his espionage was worthy of a spy novel itself."
Court documents said 67-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma of Honolulu was charged with violating U.S. espionage laws. Prosecutors said he joined the CIA in 1967 then served as a CIA officer until he retired from the agency in 1989. For part of that time he was assigned to work overseas in the East-Asia and Pacific region.

Twelve years after he retired, prosecutors said Monday that Ma met with at least five officers of China's Ministry of State Security in a Hong Kong hotel room, where he "disclosed a substantial amount of highly classified national defense information," including facts about the CIA's internal organization, methods for communicating covertly, and the identities of CIA officers and human assets. -NBC News
Following his departure from the agency, Ma became a Chinese linguist in the FBI's Honolulu field office, where he allegedly used his access to highly classified information to copy or photograph sensitive documents concerning the United States' guided missile and weapons systems, as well as other sensitive information he passed along to his Chinese handlers, according to the charging document.

Ma was caught after the FBI arranged a meeting with an undercover officer claiming to be from a CCP operative investigating "how Ma had been treated, including the amount he had been compensated" by the Chinese government.

The allegedly traitorous spook was captured on video counting $2,000 in cash given to him by the operative, who told Ma that it was to acknowledge his efforts for Beiing.

Ma, a Hong Kong native, said on tape that he "wanted 'the motherland' to succeed,' and admitted to providing classified information to...

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5 comments:

Doom said...

So, Sum Ting Wong got hired at the CIA, probably because he was Chinese and had strong ties to China... a country not afraid to harvest organs for transplant for hire, without anesthesia. Whose family and friends were in direct control of those same Chinese agents. And... what one would suspect to happen, did happen. And... what... Are we supposed to be surprised, or, once again, impressed with our open minded elites?

Every bureaucrat, armed or not, at a third the way up the ladder on to the top, needs a permanent haircut. And those who replace them need to weed out the anti-Americans, white-haters, anti-Christians, communists, and socialists from those below them. That needs to be their first job. Then they need to keep that bars in place and begin doing what they were supposed to be doing.

No great hopes. They can't even get Brennan or Comey. At least they have one or both of them blocked from secure intel, finally. Bleh.

ncgolfingtom said...

Why does an linguist in a FBI field office have access to ‘guided missile and weapon systems’ info? Something does add up here.

Unsolicited opinion. said...

If we actually executed traitors like we used to treason wouldn't be a problem.

Ron Green said...

Death by a thousand cuts.

John Flower said...

The sad part is, we are already dead and we don't know it yet.