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A former CIA officer targeted in an FBI covert operation pleaded guilty Friday to providing national defense information to the People's Republic of China, the Justice Department said.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, of Honolulu, who served as a CIA officer for seven years in the 1980s, worked with an unnamed associate in 2001 to provide Chinese intelligence with "a large volume of information classified U.S. national defense.” in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars, the DOJ said, citing the plea agreement.
CNN has reached out to Ma's lawyers for comment on the guilty plea. Ma later applied as a linguist at the FBI's Honolulu office, where he served from 2004 to 2012.
As CNN previously reported, during the course of his monitored work with the FBI, Ma allegedly took a digital camera to the FBI office to take pictures of sensitive documents that he would then take to the handlers. his in China.
Referring to a separate set of classified documents provided to Chinese intelligence officers, Ma confessed that he knew this information, and the information communicated in March 2001, would be used to harm the United States or benefit the PRC.
" Under the terms of the parties' plea agreement, Ma must cooperate with the United States, including submitting reports from US government agencies ," the Justice Department said in a statement.
If the court accepts Ma's plea, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison at a hearing set for Sept. 11.
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