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U.S._ Former CIA officer charged with spying, selling defense secrets to China

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Former CIA officer charged with spying, selling defense secrets to China


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By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Monday, August 17, 2020


A veteran CIA officer was charged Monday with selling U.S. defense secrets and the identities of CIA officers to China in exchange for cash and expensive gifts, including a new set of golf clubs.

Federal authorities say Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, of Honolulu, had become a “compromised asset” of the Chinese Ministry of State Security as early as 2001.

Mr. Ma, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Hong Kong, began working for the CIA in 1982 where he maintained a top secret clearance. For part of his time in the CIA, he worked overseas in the East-Asia and Pacific region.


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In 2001, after Mr. Ma had left the CIA, he met with at least five officers from the Chinese Ministry of State Security in a Hong Kong hotel room, where he “disclosed a substantial amount of highly classified national defense information,” prosecutors said.

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