A former official of the Central Intelligence Agency was Friday sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment on charges of spying for China.The former official, Kevin Mallory, was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US “defense information” to a Chinese intelligence agent for USD 25,000.
“Former US Intelligence officer Mallory will spend the next 20 years of his life in prison for conspiring to pass national defense information to a Chinese intelligence officer,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said.
This case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues, he said. “This sentence, together with the recent guilty pleas of Ron Hansen in Utah and Jerry Lee in Virginia, deliver the stern message that our former intelligence officers have no business partnering with the Chinese, or any other adversarial foreign intelligence service,” Demers said.
Mallory, 62, was found guilty by a federal jury in June 2018 of conspiracy to deliver, attempted delivery, delivery of national defense information to aid a foreign government and making material false statements.
Mallory, a US citizen who speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, consented to an FBI review of a covert communications device he had been given by Yang to facilitate covert communications between the two.
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Analysis of \nthe device revealed a number of communications in which Mallory and \nMichael talked about classified information that Mallory could sell to \nthe PRC’s intelligence service.FBI analysts were able to determine that \nMallory had completed all of the steps necessary to securely transmit at\n least five classified US government documents via the covcom device, \none of which contained unique identifiers for human sources who had \nhelped the United States government.
Evidence presented at trial \nincluded surveillance video from a FedEx store in Leesburg where Mallory\n could be seen scanning documents classified at the Secret and Top \nSecret level onto a micro SD card.
Though Mallory paid to have \nthe paper copies of the eight documents shredded, FBI agents found a \ncarefully concealed SD card containing those documents during a search \nof Mallory’s home, the day of his June 22, 2017 arrest.
A \nrecording was played at trial from June 24, 2017, where Mallory could be\n heard on a call from the jail asking his family to search for the \nhidden SD card.Mallory has held numerous positions with various \ngovernment agencies and several defense contractors, including working \nas a covert case officer for the CIA and an intelligence officer for the\n Defense Intelligence Agency.
As required for his various \ngovernment positions, Mallory obtained a Top Secret security clearance, \nwhich was active during various assignments during his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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