Kevin Mallory was convicted of conspiring to sell secrets to a Chinese spy
Daily Mail: Ex-CIA spy is sentenced to 20 years in prison over conspiracy to send US defense secrets to China
* Kevin Mallory was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US "defense information" for $25,000
* Mallory, 62, met with a Chinese intelligence agent during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017
* He was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an "alarming trend" in the US intelligence community
* The fluent Mandarin speaker had served in the US army, then as a special agent for the security service of the State Department
* He later became a covert case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency
* Mallory is one of several US officials with high-level security clearances arrested and charged over unsanctioned dealings with Chinese intelligence
An ex-CIA officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an "alarming trend" in the US intelligence community.
Kevin Mallory, 62, was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified US "defense information" to a Chinese intelligence agent for $25,000 during trips to Shanghai in March and April 2017.
"Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid," he told the Chinese agent in a May 5, 2017 message.
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WNU Editor: $25,000 for 20 years in jail. Not a good deal.
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