Inside the Ring: Ex-CIA Officer Indicted as Chinese Spy
Description: A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted former CIA operations officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee for conspiracy to spy for China.
Date: 2018-05-10T11:54:01-04:00

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# Inside the Ring: Ex-CIA Officer Indicted as Chinese Spy

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BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertz
May 10, 2018 11:54 am

A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted former CIA operations officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee for conspiracy to spy for China, in a case that has been under investigation for more than six years.

Federal officials say the case represents one of the most damaging spy cases in the CIA's checkered history of losing recruited agents to foreign spy services.

Mr. Lee is believed by American intelligence and law enforcement officials to be the cause of the agency losing a large number of its recruited agents in China around 2010. The agency and FBI spent the next eight years trying to find out the source of the losses.

Read the entire article at the Washington Times.

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