WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Virginia Central Intelligence Agency officer was sentenced to 19 years in prison by a Virginia court on Wednesday after confessing in May to conspiracy to spy for China, federal prosecutors said.
Jerry Xuan Xingli, 55, left the CIA in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong.
A few years later, in 2010, two Chinese intelligence officers called him and offered him $ 100,000 and his "lifelong care" for information he had seen during his intelligence work.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were subsequently deposited into Lee's personal bank account between 2010 and 2013 in exchange for his services.
"Instead of assuming that responsibility and fulfilling his commitment not to disclose national defense information, Lee sold his country and conspired to become a spy for a foreign government, and then repeatedly lied to investigators about his behavior," Zachary Terueliger, the federal prosecutor in Virginia, said in a statement. .