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The Washington Post

A former CIA officer is expected to plead guilty over a year after being arrested and charged with conspiracy to spy for China and unlawful retention of classified information.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee was scheduled to go to trial this week, having maintained through a lawyer that he was a “loyal American”.
But a hearing to change his plea has been set for Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria before Judge T.S. Ellis III.
Prosecutors would not provide further details, and no plea is final until it is entered in court and approved by the judge.

Lee is one of three former intelligence operatives accused of spying for China in the past two years.
Former CIA and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer Kevin Mallory was found guilty at a trial last year and will be sentenced in May. Former DIA officer Ron Hansen pleaded guilty in March and is serving a 15 year prison sentence.
Lee left the CIA in 2007 and worked in the tobacco business from Hong Kong, according to court filings. But he was fired from his first job and struggled starting his own business.
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In 2010, Chinese intelligence officials approached him with promises of lifetime security starting with a gift of US$100,000, according to his indictment.
The case has been shrouded in secrecy since Lee’s arrest last February. Nearly every hearing in the case has been closed to the public, and most motions were filed under seal.
In a rare public order earlier this month, as both sides were still preparing for trial, Ellis ruled on what portions of Lee’s interviews with the CIA could be used in court.


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Undated photo of former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee. Photo: Handout

This picture taken on October 13, 2017, shows a man (R, wearing blue tie) identified by local Hong Kong media as former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee standing in front of a member of security at the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' painting at the Christie's showroom in Hong Kong. The former CIA agent arrested in the United States earlier this week on suspicion of helping Chinese spies was a security guard at Christie's in Hong Kong, the auction house said January 18. Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalised US citizen also known as Zhen Cheng Li, was arrested late Monday after he arrived at JFK International Airport in New York. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE

Jerry Chun Shing Lee spy trial: China gave ex-CIA agent US$100,000 and promised to take care of him ‘for life’, US court documents say

The Hong Kong-born Lee, suspected of being at the centre of one of the largest US intelligence breaches in decades, is expected to plead not guilty 

Jerry Chun Shing Lee will be arraigned in a US court on Friday. Photo: Handout

Hongkonger Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a former CIA agent, is charged with spying for China

An undated handout photo of former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee. Photo: Handout

=== Picture Reproduced from https://hk.thevalue.com/ === Arrested ex-CIA agent suspended from security job at Christie's Hong Kong. Photo: The Value.

Arrested ex-CIA agent was fired from tobacco firm after suspicions he was spying for China

Ex-CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee. Photo: SCMP Pictures

== YouTube Capture == Arrested ex-CIA agent suspended from security job at ChristieÕs Hong Kong. SCMP Pictures (UNDATED HANDOUT)

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The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building is pictured in Langley, Virginia. Photo: Reuters

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A hearing to change his plea has been set for Wednesday afternoon, but no plea is final until it is entered in court and approved by the judge
Lee is one of three former intelligence operatives accused of spying for China in the past two years


A hearing to change his plea has been set for Wednesday afternoon, but no plea is final until it is entered in court and approved by the judge.


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