CIA mole may have contributed to deaths of at least 12 informants
SalonA former CIA officer was arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York on Monday after investigators believed he upended years worth of United States spying operations in China. Jerry Chun Shing Lee has been under suspicion by the FBI since at least 2012, which is shortly after the time the CIA's operations in China began to unravel, The New York Times reported. Lee finished with the CIA in 2007 and was living in Hong Kong; he was charged with "unlawful retention of national defense information," the Times reported. The federal agents found two small books belonging to Lee that contained handwritten classified information, such as identities of CIA informants and real phone numbers, court papers showed. Prosecutors have said the content "reflected the same information contained in classified cables that Mr. Lee had written while at the agency," the Times reported.
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