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<h6><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>Ex-CIA employee </strong></span><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>Kevin Mallory was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US &#8220;defense information&#8221; for $25,000</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>The former spy is sentenced to 20 years in prison over conspiracy to send US defense secrets to China</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>Mallory, 62, </strong></span><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an &#8220;alarming trend&#8221; in the US intelligence community</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>He was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an &#8220;alarming trend&#8221; in the US intelligence community</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>The fluent Mandarin speaker who had served in the US army, then as a special agent for the security service of the State Dept, </strong></span><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong> later became a covert case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>He </strong></span><span style="color: #2b2424;"><strong>allegedly met </strong></span><strong style="color: #2b2424; font-size: 1em;">with a Chinese intelligence agent during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #2b2424;">Mallory is one of several US officials with high-level security clearances arrested and charged over</span></strong><span style="color: #2b2424;"> unsanctioned dealings with Chinese intelligence </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2424;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8220;This [Mallory], case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues,&#8221; said Assistant Attorney General John Demers </span></span></h6>
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<div class="share-count"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="wp-image-319623 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Kevin-Mallory-2.png" alt="Kevin Mallory 2" width="217" height="278" />A former CIA officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an &#8220;alarming trend&#8221; in the US intelligence community.</span></div>
<div class="share-count"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Kevin Mallory, 62, [left], was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US &#8220;defense information&#8221; to a Chinese intelligence agent for $25,000 during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017.</span></div>
<div class="share-count"><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8220;Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid,&#8221; he told the Chinese agent in a May 5, 2017 message.</span></div>
<div class="share-count"><span style="font-size: inherit;">The fluent Mandarin speaker had served in the US army, then as a special agent for the security service of the State Department, before becoming a covert case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.</span></div>
<div class="share-count"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mallory is one of several US officials with high-level security clearances arrested and charged over unsanctioned dealings with Chinese intelligence.<br />
Kevin Mallory, 62, was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US </span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8220;defense information&#8221; to a Chinese intelligence agent for $25,000 during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Former Defense Intelligence Agency official Ron Hansen faces 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in March to charges of attempting to sell classified information to the Chinese.</span></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Kevin-Mallory-1.jpg?resize=523%2C659&;ssl=1" width="614" height="774" /><strong>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</strong></span></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">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.</span></div>
<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">And in the most significant case, on May 1, former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2019/05/01/ex-cia-officer-chun-shing-lee-accused-of-spying-for-china-and-sharing-classified-information-expected-to-enter-guilty-plea/">pled guilty to spying for China.</a></span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><br />
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.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8220;This case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues,&#8221; Assistant Attorney General John Demers said of the Mallory case.</span></p>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8220;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.&#8221;</span></div>
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Ex-CIA spy, Kevin Mallory to serve 20 years in prison over conspiracy to sell US defense secrets to China
