Former CIA Officer Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison For Spying For China


Jerry Chun Shing Lee

A former CIA officer was sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to spy for China.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, conspired with China to commit espionage after being promised by Chinese officials that he would be taken care of financially for life.

Mr. Lee is the THIRD former CIA officer to be sentenced for conspiring with China…this year alone!

Lee is a naturalized US citizen from Hong Kong and served in the CIA from 1994 through 2007 — he pleaded guilty to the charges in May of this year.

G. Zachary Terwilliger, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, whose office prosecuted the case, previously said in a statement: “Lee sold out his country, conspired to become a spy for a foreign government, and then repeatedly lied to investigators about his conduct.”

Lee served in the CIA as an overseas case officer and his job was to “recruit clandestine human intelligence sources,” according to the indictment that was unsealed earlier this year.

Lee left the CIA in 2007 and got a job at a tobacco company in Hong Kong – after he was fired from that company in 2009, he became desperate for income and it was at this time that Chinese agents began recruiting him.

In a meeting, Chinese intel officers offered Lee a gift of $100,000 cash if he cooperated.

After that meeting, according to the indictment, Lee’s Chinese contacts delivered more than 20 envelopes between 2010 and 2011 spelling out specific tasks they wanted him to perform, most of which asked him to reveal sensitive information.

The indictment states that Lee traveled to mainland China in July 2012. The next month, when Lee was on a trip from Hong Kong to the US, authorities carried out a search warrant in a Honolulu hotel room and found secret information in his luggage, including the real names of CIA assets.

Speaking of China and spying, why wasn’t the Chinese spy who was on Senator Dianne Feinstein’s payroll for 20 years indicted?

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