NBC: Ex-CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee charged with conspiring to spy for China
Court documents revealed that the FBI was concerned about Jerry Chun Shing Lee as far back as 2012.
WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer has been charged with conspiring to give Chinese spies highly classified information about the CIA's covert operations in China.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, was arrested in January when he arrived in the U.S. on a flight from Hong Kong. He was initially charged with illegally possessing classified information — two handwritten notebooks containing names and phone numbers of covert CIA employees and informants.
But the espionage charge, handed up by a federal grand jury late Tuesday, adds to the seriousness of the case against Lee, an American citizen who joined the CIA in 1994 and left in 2007. He was a case officer, and his primary mission was recruiting clandestine human intelligence sources.
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WNU Editor: This is a story that is not getting the news coverage that it deserves. Former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee is being accused of exposing the CIA's informer network in China that resulted in long prison sentences or the death penalty for those who were caught.
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Former CIA agent is charged with selling the identities of US spies to China in 2010 scandal that crippled America's intelligence network -- Daily Mail
Ex-CIA Officer Indicted in Dismantling of US Informant Network in China -- New York Times
Ex-CIA officer tried to sell classified info to China, Justice Dept. says -- FOX News
Former CIA official charged with helping China dismantle US spy network that left 'more than a dozen informants dead' -- The Independent
Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China -- NPR
Ex-CIA officer indicted as Chinese spy -- Washington Times
