A former-CIA agent has pleaded guilty to spying for China, in a case believed to be linked to the dismantling of a US espionage network.
]According to the US Justice Department. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, left the CIA in 2007 to live in Hong Kong, where he was recruited by Chinese agents.
Prosecutors say the naturalised US citizen was then paid to divulge information on US covert assets.
This led China to bring down a network of informants between 2010 and 2012.
About 20 informants were killed or jailed during that period – one of the most disastrous failures of US intelligence in recent years.
