Ex-CIA employee Kevin Mallory was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US “defense information” for $25,000
The former spy is sentenced to 20 years in prison over conspiracy to send US defense secrets to China
Mallory, 62, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an “alarming trend” in the US intelligence community
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an “alarming trend” in the US intelligence community
The fluent Mandarin speaker who had served in the US army, then as a special agent for the security service of the State Dept,  later became a covert case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency
He allegedly met with a Chinese intelligence agent during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017
Mallory is one of several US officials with high-level security clearances arrested and charged over unsanctioned dealings with Chinese intelligence
“This [Mallory], case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues,” said Assistant Attorney General John Demers
Former CIA agent Kevin Mallory, [photo], was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US. He was setenced to serve 20 years in prison on Friday
In April, a former diplomat, Candace Marie Claiborne, pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about money she received from Chinese intelligence agents in exchange for US documents.
And in the most significant case, on May 1, former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee pled guilty to spying for China.
Lee, 54, faces a possible life sentence. Arrested in January 2018, he was suspected of having provided Beijing the information it needed to bring down a CIA network of informants in China between 2010 and 2012.
“This case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said of the Mallory case.

CIA logo 1Mallory is the latest in a string of US intelligence officials criminally charged for unsanctioned dealings with Chinese intelligence
“This sentence, together with the recent guilty pleas of Ron Hansen in Utah and Jerry Lee in Virginia, deliver the stern message that our former intelligence officers have no business partnering with the Chinese, or any other adversarial foreign intelligence service.”