A former US Central Intelligence Agency personnel acknowledged China to engage in spy activities and were sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday (September 11).

Comprehensive Reuters and Agence France -Presse reported that the US Department of Justice said in a statement that Ma Yuqing (71 years old) reached a confession agreement with the prosecutor in May to admit conspiracy to collect and collect and collect and doProvide national defense information to China.

Ma Yuqing worked at the Central Love Bureau from 1982 to that year.The U.S. Department of Justice pointed out that Ma Yuqing and a relative of relatives who had also worked in the CIA and had died together.Chinese intelligence staff contacted the two in March 2001, and the two handed over a lot of confidential defense information in exchange for $ 50,000 (S $ 65246).

Chinese intelligence personnel contacted Ma Yuqing in March 2001 and a relative who worked at the CIA and has already died.

Ma Yuqing is from Hong Kong, is now in the United States, and was arrested in August 2020.