Former CIA Officer Sentenced for Spying for China: Key Points

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A former CIA officer and FBI contract linguist, Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to China. Ma, 71, admitted to providing classified information to Chinese intelligence officers in 2001. He had a top-secret security clearance and held sensitive positions in the CIA from 1982 to 1989 and the FBI from 2004 to 2012. Ma was originally hired by the FBI to monitor his activities and contacts with Chinese intelligence, but he continued to provide classified information. He has now agreed to cooperate with the US government for the rest of his life, including submitting to debriefings and polygraph tests.

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