Former CIA officer sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit espionage | Maui Now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : During the meetings, CC No. 1 provided the SSSB with a large volume of classified US national defense information in return for $50,000 in cash.
53% : The government also noted that Ma's role in the conspiracy was to facilitate the exchange of information between CC No. 1 and the SSSB, which consisted of classified CIA information that CC No. 1 had obtained between 1967 and 1983.
52% : Ma confessed that he knowingly and willfully conspired with CC No. 1 and SSSB intelligence officers to communicate and transmit information that he knew would be used to injure the United States or to advantage the PRC, according to a Justice Department news release.
51% : Ma convinced CC No. 1 to agree, and both Ma and CC No. 1 met with SSSB intelligence officers in a Hong Kong hotel room for three days.
49% : As Ma admitted in the plea agreement, in March 2001, over a decade after he resigned from the CIA, Ma was contacted by SSSB intelligence officers, who asked Ma to arrange a meeting between CC No. 1 and the SSSB.
43% : His blood relative (identified as co-conspirator No. 1 or CC No. 1 in court documents), who is deceased, also worked for the CIA from 1967 until 1983.

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