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Ex-CIA officer arrested for retaining classified information
A former Central Intelligence Agency officer was arrested at a U.S. airport on Monday night in connection with charges that he illegally retained highly classified information, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Hong Kong, used to maintain a top secret clearance and began working for the CIA in 1994.
The Justice Department said that in 2012, FBI agents searched his hotel rooms during trips to Virginia and Hawaii. They discovered he had two small books containing handwritten information on details such as the true names and numbers of spy recruits and covert CIA employees.
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested
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.
You may remember this story: CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012
Also at BBC, SCMP, and Washington Post (archive).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:23PM (1 child)
If a person is Chinese, and they are providing another country with information about China, then they are clearly a Chinese informant.
It only gets troublesome when a person fits half of that. For example, if a German person provides Japan with information about Korea, are they a German informant or a Korean informant? Also related, are they a German spy or a Japanese spy? It is clear that they are not a Korean spy or a Japanese informant.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday January 19 2018, @09:42AM
Right, that was my point. They're using 'Chinese informant' to mean someone who works for the CIA, spying on the Chinese.