A former CIA case officer long suspected in the intelligence community of being a devastating mole for the Chinese government admitted Wednesday he conspired to commit espionage in that country. Intelligence officials still suspect Lee is responsible for compromising CIA sources in China, some of whom were killed, according to former U.S. officials. Eventually he admitted he had received assignments from Chinese spies and compiled information they requested but maintained he had never given the documents to them. Former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria to conspiring to deliver secrets to China. Suspicious, law enforcement lured Lee to the United States in 2012 with a fake offer to return to the CIA.

Source: Washington Post May 01, 2019 21:31 UTC