Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Intending to Pass Secrets to China

Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Intending to Pass Secrets to China
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at its headquarters in Langley, Virginia on March 20, 2001. David Burnett/Newsmakers
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WASHINGTON—A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has been charged with gathering classified information he allegedly intended to pass to the Chinese government, the U.S. Justice Department said on May 8.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government and two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.