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Tuesday, June 5, 2018 –
6:34am
A former officer with the US Defense Intelligence Agency has
been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, according to the US
Justice Department.
Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, was reportedly taken into custody by
the FBI following an investigation that found that he had received
up to $800,000 for providing information to the Chinese
government.
He faces 15 espionage charges, including attempting to gather or
deliver national defence information to aid a foreign government
and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
He was allegedly “carrying classified information when he was
taken into custody on Saturday while on his way to board a flight
to China”, says The Guardian.
“His alleged actions are a betrayal of our nation’s security and
the American people and are an affront to his former intelligence
community colleagues,” said John Demers, the head of the Justice
Department’s National Security Division.
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Hansen served as a Defense Intelligence Agency case officer
while he was on active military duty from 2000 to 2006, later
working for the agency as a civilian employee and a contractor,
holding a top secret security clearance for many years.
The FBI began to investigate him in 2014. He was reportedly
unaware of the probe, and he voluntarily participated in nine
meetings with federal agents in Utah.
During those meetings, Hansen “told the FBI that Chinese
intelligence had tried to recruit him, offered to cooperate as a
source and even provided thumb drives to the FBI that contained
classified materials he was not authorised to have”, Reuters reports.
Hansen is the latest in a line of former US intelligence
officers accused of spying for China.
Former CIA case officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee was arrested
earlier this year for conspiring to sell national defence
information to China, and former US intelligence employee Kevin
Mallory is currently on trial on similar charges.
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