Ex-CIA officer Kevin Mallory sentenced to 20 years for spying for China

[hasnainfirst]

An ex-CIA officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an “alarming trend” in the US intelligence community.

Kevin Mallory, 62, was convicted under the Espionage Act forselling classified US “defence information” to a Chinese intelligence agent for $25,000 during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017.

“Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid,” he told the Chinese agent in a 5 May 2017 message.

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.

Lee, 54, faces a possible life sentence. Arrested in January 2018, he was suspected of having provided Beijing the information it needed to bring down a CIA network of informants in China between 2010 and 2012.

“This case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues,” assistant attorney general John Demers said of the Mallory case.

“This sentence, together with the recent guilty pleas of Ron Hansen in Utah and Jerry Lee in Virginia, deliver the stern message that our former intelligence officers have no business partnering with the Chinese, or any other adversarial foreign intelligence service.”

Mallory’s lawyers said they planned to appeal the conviction.

SOURCE:https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news...ry-sentenced-to-20-years-for-spying-for-china

 

[Offshore]

thanks for the works comrade

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

thanks for the works comrade

I used to think that all spies were worthy of contempt, but America is such a grotesque and abhorrent monstrosity that betraying it is a moral obligation.

“Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid,” he told the Chinese agent in a 5 May 2017 message.

It's sad to see he had such a base, mercenary motive. He should have appreciated the virtue of what he was doing.

 

[Pakistansdefender]

And they ask us to release shakil afridi.
Start from your home, release the spy.

 

[oprih]

Well done white man, you did well.

 

[dy1022]

well done comrade, we'll take care of your family and childs.

you don't have anything to fear about it.


And Chinese networks in America will make sure that they are staying in prison like a king!

 

[gambit]

I used to think that all spies were worthy of contempt, but America is such a grotesque and abhorrent monstrosity that betraying it is a moral obligation.

Yeah...Am sure plenty of Americans in the US government are persuaded by this 'moral' argument that no money from China is needed.

 

[Frank Martin]

For $25K!!! He must be earning more than 75K as pension.

 

[925boy]

For $25K!!! He must be earning more than 75K as pension.

I agree - that amt is too small to risk long jail sentence and your life.