Former CIA officer arrested and charged with espionage for China
Posted on AllSides August 17th, 2020
From The Left
Former CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma has been arrested and charged with allegedly sharing classified information with China, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Our thought bubble, via Axios China reporter Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian: No one should underestimate China’s intelligence services. In the past decade, the efforts of Chinese intelligence to identify as many individual CIA personnel as possible have paid off, resulting in the decommissioning of dozens of CIA assets in China.
Details: Ma, a naturalized U.S. citizen who worked for the CIA from 1982 to 1989 and maintained a...
