Kohler Jr., Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. “This serious act of espionage is another example in a long string of illicit activities that the People's Republic of China is conducting within and against the United States,” said Alan E. My office will continue to tenaciously pursue espionage cases.” “Of particular concern are the criminal acts of those who served in our nation’s intelligence community, but then choose to betray their former colleagues and the nation-at large by divulging classified national defense information to China. “The charges announced today are a sobering reminder to our communities in Hawaii of the constant threat posed by those who seek to jeopardize our nation’s security through acts of espionage,” said U.S. To us, they are sad but urgent reminders of the need to stay vigilant.” To the Chinese intelligence services, these individuals are expendable. Whether immediately, or many years after they thought they got away with it, we will find these traitors and we will bring them to justice. “The trail of Chinese espionage is long and, sadly, strewn with former American intelligence officers who betrayed their colleagues, their country and its liberal democratic values to support an authoritarian communist regime,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Kohler Jr., and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Honolulu Field Office Eli S. Price, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division Alan E. Attorney for the District of Hawaii Kenji M. The Criminal Complaint containing the charge was unsealed this morning.Īssistant Attorney General for National Security John C. 14, 2020, on a charge that he conspired with a relative of his who also was a former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested on Aug.
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