EX-pentagon official who spied for China gets 3 years

Fri, 22 Jan 2010

A former US Defense Department official has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of spying for China and lying to investigators.

James Fondren Jr., 62, was accused of providing classified Pentagon documents to a naturalized US citizen from Taiwan, Tai Shen Kuo, who had close contacts with an unnamed Chinese government official.

The defendant was also in email contact with the Chinese official and met him during a visit to China in 1999.

Fondren provided classified information to Kuo between 2004 and 2008, while he served as the deputy director of the Washington liaison office of US Pacific Command. The Justice Department did not describe the type of documents that were transferred.

He also allegedly lied to the FBI, telling investigators that everything he wrote and provided to Kuo was based on information in the media and his own experiences.

The former Defense Department official was convicted of the charges in September and was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison and two years of probation.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116803§ionid=3510203.