Former CIA Analyst Charged With Acting as Unregistered Agent for South Korea

Sue Mi Terry is accused of disclosing nonpublic U.S. government information to South Korea for over a decade in return for luxury goods, dinners, and funding.

The South Korean flag at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 7, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

A former CIA analyst has been charged with working as an unregistered agent for South Korea’s intelligence service in exchange for luxury gifts, dinners, and funding, according to a newly unsealed indictment filed on July 15 in the U.S. Southern District of New York.

Sue Mi Terry faces one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and one count of failure to register under the FARA, which is aimed at preventing covert foreign influence by foreign principles.