U.S. Army Veteran Is Charged With Attempted Spying for China

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Reached by telephone late Monday, a duty officer in the press office at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Washington said that he was not familiar with the case against Mr. Hansen.

Mr. Hansen later traveled regularly to China and provided the information he had gathered at military and intelligence conferences in the United States to contacts in China associated with that country’s intelligence services, the statement said. It added that he had received at least $800,000 in “funds originating from China” since May 2013.

In April, Mr. Hansen told an American undercover agent that China would pay $200,000 for the operations plan of the American military regarding “potential military intervention with China,” the complaint said. Earlier, he had told an undercover agent that China was interested in material about North Korea.

At one point during his activities, Mr. Hansen kept an apartment and office in Beijing, and worked with a Chinese company in the city that had close connections to Chinese security services, the Justice Department said.

He was initially offered $300,000 a year by two Chinese government security operatives for “consulting services,” the Justice Department said. When he allegedly started working for the Chinese, Mr. Hansen had no known financial means beyond a military pension of $1,900 a month, the Justice Department said.



Source : Nytimes