BREAKING: Fmr. CIA officer sentenced for conspiring to provide American intelligence secrets to the Chinese government.
after FBI agents searched his hotel room and found notebooks and a thumb drive containing the names and phone numbers of covert CIA employees and informants, details of a sensitive CIA operation, and information about covert facilities.
A month after that meeting, Lee deposited $17,000 in cash into his bank account, even though he was operating a failing consulting business at the time. Federal prosecutors told Federal District Court Judge T.S. Ellis that the Chinese gave him a total of $840,000, but Lee's defense lawyer, Edward MacMahon, said the government has never actually linked the deposits to Chinese intelligence officers.
Prosecutor Neil Hammerstrom conceded that the intelligence community can never be certain of exactly how much Lee disclosed — saying only that"it is all but certain" that he did pass along sensitive secrets that endangered the lives of intelligence sources and severely hampered the CIA's intelligence-gathering abilities in China.
"The government has posited no direct evidence that Mr. Lee actually caused any harm to the United States," MacMahon said.
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