4/2/2023 0 Comments China spy agent![]() “Ma took some of the stolen documents and images with him on his frequent trips to China with the intent to provide them to his handlers. The charge sheet claims he burned pictures of US missiles and other weapons technology on to a CD-rom. “Over the following six years, Ma regularly copied, photographed and stole documents that displayed US classification markings such as ‘SECRET’,” the justice department alleges. In April 2003 he is alleged to have used a prepaid calling card to contact his Chinese handlers to update them on his FBI employment. Once in Hawaii according to court documents, Ma applied for a job as a contract linguist at the FBI office there, reviewing and translating documents. ![]() He retired from the agency in 1989 and went to live and work in Shanghai until 2001, when he allegedly met Chinese intelligence agencies before moving to Hawaii. He began working for the CIA in 1982, working with top secret clearance. Ma was born in Hong Kong and moved to Hawaii in 1968, going to school and university there. Court documents do not make clear who made the video recording of the 2001 meeting. “Part of the meeting was captured on videotape, including a portion where Ma can be seen receiving and counting $50,000 in cash for the secrets they provided,” the justice department statement said. ![]() The charge sheet said that the conspiracy began in March 2001 with three days of meetings in a Hong Kong hotel room with at least five Chinese intelligence officials in March 2001, during which the two former CIA officers provided information to the Chinese foreign intelligence service about the CIA’s operations, including “the cover used by CIA officers” and their identities. The relative was identified only as co-conspirator 1, an 85-year-old naturalised citizen living in Los Angeles, who worked as a CIA officer from 1971 to 1982 with the highest clearance level, with access to the identity of covert CIA officers.Īccording to court documents, the co-conspirator is suffering from a severe cognitive disease so the FBI was not seeking an arrest warrant “at this time”. ![]() Ma was arrested on Friday, following a sting operation conducted by the FBI. ![]()
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