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This photo shows a gerenal view of China's and USA's flags during a meeting between US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and China's Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Guangdong Zhudao Guest House in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, on April 5, 2024. Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:900px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17261101778279-12-2024 11-21-04 AM.png" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">This photo shows a gerenal view of China&#x27;s and USA&#x27;s flags during a meeting between US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and China&#x27;s Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Guangdong Zhudao Guest House in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, on April 5, 2024. Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP</span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON — A former CIA agent who pleaded guilty in May to spying for China was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday, the Justice Department said.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/9/4/beware-of-beautiful-foreign-spies-china-warns-students-1505">• Beware of &#x27;beautiful&#x27; foreign spies, China warns students</a></div><p>Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, a native of Hong Kong who became a naturalized US citizen, was arrested in August 2020.</p><p>Ma, who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1982 until 1989, admitted providing classified national defense information to intelligence officers of China&#x27;s Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB), the Justice Department said in a statement.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/26/23/cia-chief-says-us-confident-china-mulling-arms-for-russia">• CIA chief says US &#x27;confident&#x27; China mulling arms for Russia</a></div><p>According to court documents, a relative of Ma, who was not identified and is since deceased, also worked for the CIA, from 1967 until 1983, and was a co-conspirator.</p><p>The Justice Department said both men held top secret security clearances.</p><p>It said Ma and his co-conspirator met with SSSB agents in Hong Kong in March 2001 and provided them with classified information in return for $50,000 in cash.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/3/12/spy-chiefs-us-faces-an-interconnected-and-complex-global-threat-932">• Spy chiefs: US faces an ‘interconnected and complex’ global threat</a></div><p>Two years later, Ma applied for a job as a contract linguist with the FBI in Hawaii, the Justice Department said.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/20/guo-denies-being-a-chinese-spy-i-am-a-filipino-i-love-my-country-1917">• Alice Guo denies being a Chinese spy</a></div><p>&quot;The FBI, aware of Ma&#x27;s ties to (Chinese) intelligence, hired Ma as part of a ruse to monitor and investigate his activities and contacts with the SSSB,&quot; it said, adding that he worked part-time for the FBI from August 2004 until October 2012.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Press</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t3hgnhk3Vis?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, a native of Hong Kong who became a naturalized US citizen, was arrested in August 2020.</p>

Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, a native of Hong Kong who became a naturalized US citizen, was arrested in August 2020.

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10 years in prison for ex-CIA agent who spied for China

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Published Sep 12, 2024 01:38 PM PHT

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