"This case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues." “Former US intelligence officer Kevin Patrick Mallory will spend the next 20 years of his life in prison for conspiring to pass national defense information to a Chinese intelligence officer,” said Assistant Attorney General John Demers. He was also spotted scanning secret and top-secret materials onto a microSD card in a FedEx store near where he lived. The traitor was given a Samsung Galaxy smartphone by his Middle Kingdom handler Michael Yang for covert communications: Mallory, who is fluent in Mandarin, discussed Uncle Sam's hush-hush information with Yang using the mobe, and used it to securely transmit at least five classified US government documents to Chinese intelligence. Some of that leaked information included "unique identifiers for human sources who had helped the United States government," according to prosecutors. Against this backdrop, we decided not to disclose the incident publicly in the interest of the global fight against cybercrime and thus also in the interest of our users."Įx-CIA guy jailed for 20 years for China leak: Former CIA intelligence officer Kevin Patrick Mallory, 62, of Leesburg, Virginia, was sent down for two decades on Friday for selling American national defense secrets to a Chinese spy.
"We came to the joint conclusion that informing our users was not necessary and would have been counterproductive to the effective prosecution of the attackers.
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