Former CIA Officer Sentenced for Espionage

Former CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to deliver national defense information to China. Ma, who worked for the CIA from 1982 to 1989 and later as an FBI linguist, admitted to providing classified information to Chinese intelligence officers in exchange for cash and gifts. He and his co-conspirator, also a former CIA officer, initially met with Chinese agents in Hong Kong in 2001, receiving $50,000 for sensitive data. Ma has been in custody since his 2020 arrest and expressed remorse for his actions. As part of a plea deal, Ma will also be subjected to lifelong polygraph tests.