A former CIA officer who provided China with top secret information in exchange for gifts was sentenced to 10 years behind bars and five years of probation.
A former CIA officer who received numerous gifts and money in exchange for spying for China was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that 71-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma of Honolulu was sentenced for conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to the People’s Republic of China .
Both men, the DOJ said, held top secret security clearances granting them access to sensitive and classified CIA information. The two men also signed nondisclosure agreements. Ma admitted in the plea agreement that in March 2001 he was contacted by SSSB officers to arrange a meeting with them and his co-conspirator. After convincing his partner, the two men met with SSSB intelligence officers in a Hong Kong hotel room for three days.
Two years after agreeing to help the Chinese government, Ma applied for a job as a contract linguist for the FBI’s Honolulu field office. The FBI was aware of Ma’s ties with the PRC and hired him to secretly monitor and investigate his activities and contacts with the SSSB. Ma reportedly worked part-time at an offsite location for the FBI from August 2004 until October 2012.
He was also sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
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