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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Ex-CIA Officer Sentenced to 19 Years for Conspiring with Chinese Spies

A former CIA case agent was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison for an espionage conspiracy with China.

Fifty-five-year-old Jerry Chun Shing Lee was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria after his guilty plea earlier this year.

He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage, but prosecutors and defense lawyers disagreed about the extent of the crime.

Prosecutors say Chinese intelligence officers gave Lee more than $840,000 and that Lee likely gave them all the information he had from a 13-year career as a CIA case officer. They sought a prison term of more than 20 years.

Defense lawyers say the government never proved that the money came from China or that Lee ever carried out any plans to deliver government secrets.

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2 comments:

Trump 2020 said...

Ok,

now let's lock up Obama and Hillary for TREASON

Anonymous said...

There's more where that came from. They should have televised FIRING SQUADS.