A former CIA agent admitted that he was a spy for China, as the US Department of Justice announced yesterday. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was born in 1952 in Hong Kong, moved to Hawaii at a young age and became a naturalized American. He admitted that in 2001 he handed over a significant amount of classified US national security information in a meeting with Shanghai intelligence agents, even though he had not worked for the CIA for the previous 12 years. The meeting was reportedly arranged by another former CIA agent, a naturalized American originally from Shanghai. On the third day of contacts at a Hong Kong hotel, Chinese agents offered “$50,000 in cash, which Alexander Yuk Ching Ma counted,” according to the US Justice Department briefing. The two men then “agreed to continue assisting” Shanghai's intelligence agency. In 2003 Ma was hired by the FBI in Hawaii to provide linguist services. The FBI knew […]
Source: News Beast
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