According to the US news channel MSNBC, the man, sentenced to 19 years in prison, has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for a total of 13 years.
The man, who is 55, has served in China, among other places, and that is where, in the city of Shenzhen, he must have met two Chinese agents who offered to "take care of him for the rest of his life" if he began to leak CIA secrets . In total, he should have received $ 840,000, according to prosecutors.
Many details in the case are still mysterious. It is clear, however, that the FBI found several very compromising information regarding, among other things, the identities of several CIA agents as well as a secret operation during the arrest, which makes the thoughts go to counter-espionage.
According to MSNBC, the 55-year-old is the third person convicted of spying on the United States on behalf of China in less than a year.