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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ron Rockwell Hansen, pled guilty to trying to sell information to China</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>59-year-old Hansen, a former federal intelligence officer, </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>faces 15 years in prison after he was c</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>aught trying to sell classified military secrets to Chinese spies </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The ex U.S. Army officer, from Utah, was reported to the FBI by his own agent </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>By 2014, Hansen allegedly was on the Chinese payroll and had earned many thousands from his work as a double-agent</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Part of Hansen&#8217;s espionage directive was to collect information</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> on behalf of the Chinese for $800,000</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Hansen had tried to solicit </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>from a DIA intelligence officer between May 2016 and June 2018</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>His handlers demanded the &#8216;China ops plan&#8217; &#8211; the U.S. military&#8217;s operational strategy for potential military intervention with China &#8211; he was arrested carrying the files</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Hansen is charged with 15 counts related to espionage but pled guilty to one count</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>His plea deal stipulates a 15-year sentence with the other 14 counts dropped</strong></span><strong> <img class="alignnone wp-image-311978" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ron-Rockwell-Hansen-3-300x160.png" alt="" width="872" height="465" />Syracuse resident Ron Rockwell Hansen, 59, is charged with espionage after prosecutors allege he was paid thousands by Chinese agents for information</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A former case officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency faces 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to spying on the United States on behalf of China.<br />
Utah born Ron Rockwell Hansen, 59, who now resides in Syracuse residentis charged with espionage after prosecutors allege he was paid thousands by Chinese agents for information.<br />
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The ex-warrant officer, who retired from the U.S. Army in 2006 and took up a post at the Defense Intelligence Agency, learned to speak Russian and Mandarin-Chinese fluently, and was later hired to his brother&#8217;s cyber-security firm H-11 Digital Forensics.</p>
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Hansen [photo], was arrested by the FBI in June as he was trying to board a flight for China. The agency said he had been approached by <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/09/26/a-chinese-citizen-who-enlisted-in-the-us-army-reserve-is-now-accused-of-spying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chinese intelligence agents</a> in 2014, and received not less than $800,000 in funds originating from China as compensation for transmitting U.S. national secrets working as a double-agent.<br />
As part of his espionage directives from the Chinese, Hansen tried to solicit information from a DIA intelligence officer between May 2016 and June 2018.<br />
He taught the agent how to clandestinely record and transmit information at the Chinese agents&#8217; behest, which he then planned to sell for $200,000.<br />
However, that agent reported Hansen to the FBI who began investigating him. Court documents show he had already been on their radar after he previously tried to access classified information.</p>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-311972" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Defense-Intelligence-Agency-1-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="904" height="596" />The ex warrant officer, who retired from the U.S. Army in 2006 and took up a post at the Defense Intelligence Agency, learned to speak Russian and Mandarin-Chinese fluently, and was later hired to his brother&#8217;s cyber-security firm H-11 Digital Forensics (DIA HQ is pictured)</strong></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">FBI agents took Hansen into custody in June, when he was traveling to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to take a connecting flight to China.<br />
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Chinese agents had demanded the &#8216;China ops plan&#8217; &#8211; the U.S. military&#8217;s operational strategy for potential military intervention with China, court documents show.<br />
On June 2, 2018, Hansen met with the officer, who was now a secret source for the FBI, and was handed the classified documents before his scheduled flight to China.<br />
Hansen was initially charged with 15 counts related to espionage, however he only pleaded guilty to the first charge &#8211; attempt to gather or deliver defense information.<br />
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Prosecutors are expected to ask the court to dismiss the remaining 14, which include bulk cash smuggling and acting as an agent of a foreign government.<br />
Hansen pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. He is a resident of Syracuse, Utah. The plea deal Hansen agreed to stipulated a 15-year sentence, pending court approval, DoJ officials said in their <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-defense-intelligence-officer-pleads-guilty-attempted-espionage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announcement</a>.<br />
He is scheduled to be formally sentenced September 24.</p>
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Former federal intelligence officer, Ron Rockwell Hansen, who sold classified military secrets to China faces 15 years in prison
