spying for China

Former CIA officer jailed for 10 years for spying for China

A former CIA officer who accepted gifts and money to spy for China received a 10-year prison sentence on Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that 71-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma from Honolulu was sentenced for conspiring to transmit national defence information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In August 2020, Ma was apprehended after confessing to…