Australia Confirms Ex-Marine Who Trained Chinese Pilots Will Be Extradited to the US

Former US Marine and naturalised Australian Daniel Duggan claims he thought he had the opportunity to be a spy.

Former U.S. military pilot Daniel Edmund Dugga in Tasmania, Australia, in a file photo. AAP Image/Supplied by Duggan family

Australia will send a U.S.-born Australian citizen back to America following allegations he unlawfully provided military training to Chinese pilots.

Daniel Duggan, who is currently residing in a New South Wales prison, was arrested in October 2022 after he was accused of breaching U.S. arms-trafficking laws by training Chinese pilots in South Africa from 2010-12.