CIA Officer From Hong Kong Charged For Allegedly Giving Classified Info To ‘Motherland’ China

The Department of Justice announced on Monday that a former CIA officer, who is a naturalized citizen from Hong Kong, had been arrested for allegedly stealing Top Secret-level information and turning it over to the Chinese government.

The DOJ said that Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, conspired with an unnamed relative, who also was a former CIA officer, to “communicate classified information up to the to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).”